DISH-STARS™ Commercialization (Abstract)
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
The goal of this project is to aggressively support the near-term commercialization of a new technology platform – based on the integration of solar concentrators and micro- and meso-channel process technology (MMPT) – that was evaluated and identified as a strong candidate for near-term commercialization at EERE’s inaugural Lab-Corps program during early FY2016. Known as STARS, for Solar Thermochemical Advanced Reactor System, or Dish-STARS™ when paired with parabolic dish concentrators, STARS is a promising energy-related technology developed at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) that efficiently converts solar energy into chemical energy. Combined with economies through hardware mass production, the efficiency of Dish-STARS™ provides a near-term opportunity for the production of renewable electricity, fuels and chemicals. This proposed CRADA project supports the commercialization of Dish-STARS™ in these important ways: The project will support the cooperative development of Dish-STARS™ by the DOE national laboratory and private partners, including the startup company, STARS Corporation, that is being established by the PNNL Lab-Corps team that evaluated STARS on behalf of EERE. The project will provide important transition funding at the time that the previous DOE SunShot project, which has supported Dish-STARS™ development from Technology Readiness Level 3 (TRL 3) to TRL 6, is scheduled to end.
- Research Organization:
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States); Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas), Los Angeles, CA (United States); STARS Technology Corporation, Richland, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-76RL01830
- OSTI ID:
- 2367573
- Report Number(s):
- PNNL--35390; CRADA-380; PNNL--69121; PNNL--69139
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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