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Technology transfer: paving the way for advanced manufacturing Brussels, 25th February 2015 The solar receiver tubes for thermodynamic power plants: from lab to industry How to manage the whole innovation process, avoiding the pitfalls of the intermediate stage between basic research and commercialization Marco Alvisi – – ENEA, Italy ENEA, Italy Marco Alvisi

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Time and TT steps 2012 New manufacturing Industrial role 2011 plant (ASE) 2010 ARCHIMEDE SOLAR 2009 ENERGY Industry Demo Design and production facility construction 2008 2007 Components test and 2006 qualification Government role Test facility 2005 CSP Prototype Operation 2004 start-up 2003 Prototype Design 2002 Lab R&D ! Public funding ! An open innovation model that 2001 Project Start-up combines internal and external ideas and expertises

Market context and Technology need

The solar receiver tube for the thermodinamic power plants

Technically innovative elements - 1 -

Technically innovative elements - 2 -

High added value materials: 1st Patent Family

Advanced manufacturing technologies on 1st Patent

High added value materials: 2nd Patent Family

Advanced manufacturing technologies on 2nd Patent

Enea Experimental Plant and Test Facility ��������������� ENEA Casaccia National Labs, Rome � Start-up April 2004 � Tests and qualification of the basic concept & components � More than 15,000 hr operation

Overview of the Patents Fampat family Fampat family ITRM20110308 A1 2012-12-16 [IT2011RM0308] ITRM20010349 D0 2001-06-18 [IT2001RM0349] WO2012172505 A1 2012-12-20 [WO2012172505] ITRM20010349 A1 2002-12-18 [IT2001RM0349] EP2721353 A1 2014-04-23 [EP2721353] WO02103257 A1 2002-12-27 [WO2002103257] AU2002346290 A1 2003-01-02 [AU2002346290] KR20140050629 A 2014-04-29 [KR20140050629] WO02103257 A8 2003-04-10 [WO2002103257] CN103782113 A 2014-05-07 [CN103782113] EP1397622 A1 2004-03-17 [EP1397622] US2014130794 A1 2014-05-15 [US20140130794] WO02103257 A8 2004-04-29 [WO2002103257] IN10699/DELNP/2013 A 2014-12-26 [IN2013DN10699] EP1397622 B1 2004-12-01 [EP1397622] HK1197099 A2 2015-01-02 [HK1197099] AT284010 T 2004-12-15 [ATE284010] DE60202142 D1 2005-01-05 [DE60202142] Fampat family ES2230504 T3 2005-05-01 [ES2230504] ITRM20080113 A1 2009-09-01 [IT2008RM0113] DE60202142 T2 2005-12-01 [DE60202142] WO2009107157 A2 2009-09-03 [WO2009107157] WO2009107157 A3 2010-01-14 [WO2009107157] Fampat family EP2245208 A2 2010-11-03 [EP2245208] US2004126594 A1 2004-07-01 [US20040126594] Fampat family ITRM20040279 A1 2004-09-07 [IT2004RM0279] WO2005121389 A1 2005-12-22 [WO2005121389] EP1759031 A1 2007-03-07 [EP1759031] EP1759031 B1 2012-12-05 [EP1759031]

Transfer to Industry

Transfer to Industry

Transfer to Industry ARCHIMEDE SOLAR ENERGY (owned by Angelantoni Group) Industry production facility (about 200 employees)

Principal steps of the tech transfer of the innovation 1) A 1st European Patent (and two subsequent Patents) on oxide-based Cermet materials (one of the key technology of the receiver tube) was deposited, with technology solution proposed according to the production and market requirements; 2) Laboratory sputtering pilot plant “ENEA-1” , proprietary design , has been installed in the Enea laboratories as prototype pilot plant for the production of the receiver tube. 3) The “ENEA-1” sputtering demostration plant was placed at Archimede Solar Energy (Angeloantoni Group); 4) By using this first demonstration plant Archimede Solar Energy supplied the first hundreds of receiver tubes for “Archimede” ENEL power station sited in Priolo Gargallo (SC), i.e. the test field with real operating conditions. 5) A 2nd PCT Patent on nitride-based Cermet materials was deposited (high temperature solar coating with higher deposition rate and lower cost with respect to the previous Enea patented coating) and finalized in different world countries. 6) A Laboratory sputtering pilot plant “ENEA-2”, proprietary design , used for R&D on spectrally selective coating for receiver tubes (an experimental machine with high flexibility) was installed in Enea Lab with manufacturing functional approach equivalent to the production plants . 7) ENEA has developed the concept design of the sputtering apparatus, 75 meters long, with a production capacity of 70.000 receiver tubes/year, both for high and medium temperature employment, built in the ASE production facility. 8) On the 14th September 2011, Archimede Solar Energy opened in Massa Martana (Perugia) a new manufacturing plant.

Conclusions Main TT factors of this practise: - Research to market (push approach) - Patenting and “industrial secret” – commissioned research for know-how - 12 years of life cycle innovation - Funding: public for research, public-private LAB for piloting, private for exploitation - Involvements of industrial suppliers companies - Innovation in products and processes design - Prototype of production line in lab >> testing in collaboration with companies >> transfer of prototype >> new prototype in lab >> transfer of production line apparatus - Management: decentralized technical – centralized TT and policy - Verification and support of follow up (income, strategy etc) COMPANY-RTO STRONG COLLABORATION FROM THE FIRST STEPS !!

Acknowledgments Special Thanks to: Augusto Maccari Archimede Solar Energy (ASE) Thank you for your attention! marco.alvisi@enea.it www.enea.it