April 9-10, 2013 - Newcastle, Australia

The 4th meeting of Task 48 on Quality Assurance and Support Measures for Solar Cooling took place very close to Newcastle city Centre (at CSIRO office) on Tuesday 9th (14:00-22:30) and Wednesday 10th (14:00-22:00) of April 2013.

Task Meeting Location

CSIRO Energy Technology
Steel River Estate
10 Murray Dwyer Ct
Mayfield West
NSW 2304
Australia
Phone: +61 2 4960 6000

Locations of Events

Task 48 meeting place (09-10/04/2013): Newcastle (160 km North Sydney)
Technical visit (11/04/2013): Newcastle (160 km North Sydney)
Solar Cooling Training Course (11/04/2013): North Ryde (10km North Sydney)
Australian Solar Cooling 2013 conference (12/04/2013): North Ryde (10km North Sydney)*

Workshop and Technical Tour - Singapore

Workshop and Technical Tour in Singapore (05/04/2013) at UWCSEA East Campus: Singapore
Date: April 5, 2013 - 0900-1600 local time
Venue:  UWCSEA East Campus, 1 Tampines Street 73 Singapore 528704, Singapore
Programme Project: Presentation of world’s largest solar cooling plant: technology, operational experiences and measurement results; guided tour of the plant including collector fields, cooling towers, technical room
 

• Workshop Information Page
• Workshop Report

Latest Developments and Results Task 48 Workshop

• A new compact solar air conditioner based on fixed beds adsorption and high efficient evaporative cooling concepts and prototype (Pietro Finocchiaro, UNIPA)
• Results of the comparative study (thermal vs. PV cooling) within the project EVASOLK project
• ILK Dresden contribution (Mathias Safarik ILK)
• ISE contribution (Morgenstern ISE)
• Development and first results of a 8 kW air‐cooled water/LiBr absorption chiller (Mathias Safarik ILK)
• PISTACHE, simplified design tool from MEGAPICS project (Romain Siré TECSOL, François Boudehenn CEA INES)
• BIN Method for the rating of solar cooling (A. Morgenstern/M. Schicktanz ISE)
• Latest monitoring results from a Canadian Liquid desiccant system (S. Harisson Queen’s University)

Additional Information

• Final Agenda / Logistics / Available Hotels

Pictures of the meeting

Experts attending the 4th experts in Newcastle

Videoconferencing during the 4th experts in Newcastle

Working group videoconferencing during the 4th experts in Newcastle

Contact

Organisational contact for both Task 48 meeting and Australian Solar Cooling 2013 conference:
Dan Rowe | daniel.rowe@csiro.au