Free Online CSP Courses Coming This Fall

Northeastern University is developing free online CSP courses that will be offered to the public this fall. Please complete this short questionnaire if you are interested in the courses.

The courses are meant to support prospective, new, or existing workers in the CSP industry. The planned topics include:

1) What is CSP: An overview of the discipline and its advantages
2) Incident solar radiation prediction, ray tracing basics, losses, software available and control needs
3) Receiver design: basic design and numerical approaches
4) Energy storage, need and cost factors
5) Potential for production processes at high temperature high heat fluxes in CSP systems

Certificate of Advanced Studies CAS – Solar Thermal Energy Technology

This Certificate provides a comprehensive overview on solar thermal systems and their main components.

Learning goals:

  • Gain a broad overview on solar thermal systems and their main components
  • Acquire a knowledge of all types of solar collectors – especially linear Fresnel collectors and solar tower heliostat fields
  • Learn about the hybridization of concentrated solar power and photovoltaic, as well as the impacts of different high-temperature storage options