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Current projects

Agrivoltaic system with improved electricity generation and minimal impact on agricultural crop

Cooperation: Elena VitoshkinGur Mittelman  

Support: Israel Innovation Authority

Duration: 2023 – 2025

A continuous process for hydro-thermal liquefaction (HTL) of urban waste

Cooperation: Alex Golberg, Michael Gozin  

Support: Israel Ministry of Energy

Duration: 2020 – 2024

Past projects since 2010

An innovative solar system based on spectral beam splitting for open field Agrivoltaics

Cooperation: Ricardo Hernandez , Elena VitoshkinGur Mittelman 

Support: BARD - US-Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development

Duration: 2020 – 2023

Solar electricity generation in open field agriculture (Agrivoltaics) using a novel spectral splitting collector 

Cooperation: Elena Vitoshkin, Benny Lew, Ido Halperin, Efrat Hadas, Yechiel Steinmetz, Gur Mittelman  

Support: Israel Ministry of Energy

Duration: 2020 – 2023

Layered materials photovoltaics: from few-atom thick films to solar cells

Cooperation: Ariel Ismach

Support: Israel Ministry of Energy

Processes for biomass deconstruction for biofuels production

Cooperation: Alex Golberg, Lior Guttman

Support: Israel Ministry of Energy

Development of a photo-thermionic solar converter

Cooperation: Yossi Rosenwaks, Alon Hoffman

Support: Israel Ministry of Energy

Production Method of Electrical Energy by Enhanced Thermal Electron Emission by the Use of Superior Semiconductors (PROMETHEUS)

Cooperation: Danielle Trucchi, Andreas Bett, Alon HoffmanYossi Rosenwaks, ...

Support: European Commission FP7

Solar photo-thermionic conversion

Cooperation: Yossi Rosenwaks, Alon Hoffman

Support: Israel Ministry of Energy

Development of advanced latent-heat thermal energy storage systems for solar energy applications

Cooperation: Gennady ZiskindElena Palomo del Barrio

Support: Israel Ministry of Science

Optimized volumetric absorbers for high efficiency solar thermal conversion

Cooperation: Cyril Caliot

Support: Israel Ministry of Science

Solar power with steam injection gas turbine (STIG) cycle

Cooperation: Selvarasan Iniyan, Loganathan Suganthi

Support: Israel Ministry of Science

Photothermal coatings based on functional nanomaterials for the efficient conversion of solar energy

Cooperation: Daniel Mandler, Shlomo MagdassiBen Steinberg, Daniel Feuermann

Support: Israel Ministry of Science

Enhanced Energy Production of Heat and Electricity by Solar Thermionic-Thermoelectric Unit System (EPHESTUS)

Cooperation: Emilia Cappelli,  Danielle Trucchi, Tullio Caselli, Cem Kaypmaz, ...

Support: European Commission FP7

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