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The MecaTech Cluster’s strategy is a three-pronged approach: - Demand side: Integration of digital technology in products such as automobiles, medical devices, machines, and various types of plant. - Demand side: Integration of digital technology in industrial processes in order to improve productivity and competitiveness in the various links of the added-value chain. - Supply side: Development of enterprises’ digital capabilities in order to meet the demand. The aim is thus to match the “supply-side” enterprises’ capacities with the “demand-side” enterprises’ needs through various actions, project engineering and training programmes. This strategy has
SOLAR GNEXT
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The solar receptor is already the most critical element of the CSPP, given the high densities of the solar energy fluxes to collect and the high temperature variations associated with the diurnal/nocturnal cycles. Increasing the operating temperature is a new challenge that requires developing a new generation of solar receptors.
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The aim of this project (led by John Cockerill, Lithcote Europe, CRM and ULg) is to study the materials and heat transfer fluids that can work under such extreme conditions and guarantee the requisite performance levels throughout the life of the CSPP.
