
Solar Technology Laboratory (LST)
The Solar Technology Laboratory (LST), established in 1988, belongs to the Energy and Environment Research Division, (ENE) at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI). Our laboratory develops and optimizes solar-driven thermochemical processes and demonstrates their technical and economic feasibility at an industrially relevant scale. Solar chemical technologies may be used for the delivery of clean, sustainable energy services, such as the solar thermal production of fuels (e.g., hydrogen, syngas, and synthetic liquid hydrocarbons) and chemical commodities (e.g. aluminum, zinc) for the power, transportation and chemical sectors of the world energy economy.PSI is currently phasing out of the concentrated solar energy research. All running projects will be finished until spring 2018.
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1994 | The project «Solar Hydrogen» aims at converting concentrated solar energy into chemical energy carriers – i.e. Solar Fuels – that can be long-term stored and long-ranged transported. Thus, solar energy can be used even if the sun is not shining. |