Manuel Blanco, Professor, Chair of the Executive Committee of SolarPACES, European Research Area Chair in Solar Thermal Technologies for the Eastern Mediterranean at The Cyprus Institute.
Prof. Manuel J. Blanco has more than thirty years of experience as a solar researcher and engineer, contributing to advancing the state-of the-art of Concentrating Solar Thermal (CST) technologies. He is an expert on Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, Optics, and Modelling of Energy Systems. He holds a Doctoral Degree in Industrial Engineering for the University of Seville (Spain) and a Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Applied Physics for the University of Massachusetts (USA).Until August, 2016, he has been Science Leader of the Solar Energy Systems Research Group of CSIRO -Australia’s National Research Agency; and Director of the Australian Solar Thermal Research Initiative (ASTRI) -an eight-year eighty-seven million dollars’ research program to increase the cost competitiveness of CST technologies, which involves CSIRO, six Australian universities, and several US National Laboratories and universities. He is former Director of the Solar Thermal Energy Department of the National Renewable Energy Centre of Spain (CENER); Chair and Full Professor of the Engineering Department of the University of Texas at Brownsville; and Director of the Plataforma Solar de Almería of CIEMAT the largest European solar research infrastructure.He is author numerous scientific publications, and participates, in a senior capacity, in a large number of national and international expert groups and committees.
2017 China Solar Thermal Electricity Conference will be held in Dunhuang, an historical city as an old town on the ancient Silk Road, from Aug.8-10, 2017.If you would like to share your technical results and experiences on CSP related technologies with Chinese audiences, including CSP project developers, owners, researchers, EPCs, manufactures and policy makers, please contact us immediately at cstec2017@126.com, or visit: www.cnste.org for more information.
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2017 China Solar Thermal Electricity Conference agenda |
