Renewable Energy Webinar and PRÉMA Workshop

PREMA Workshop Link

Introduction

SAIMM announces the addition of the PRÉMA workshop to the Renewable Solutions for Energy Intensive Industry webinar on the 4th of November. PRÉMA (https://www.spire2030.eu/PREMA) is a H2020 project aimed at demonstrating an innovative suite of technologies, involving use of industrial off-gases and solar thermal energy to reduce energy consumption and CO₂ emissions from manganese production as a means to obtain sustainable production of Mn-alloys and steel.

The project has an international consortium, including several South African partners. The online workshop on the 4th of November 2020 aims to gather input from stakeholders outside of the PRÉMA consortium regarding the technologies proposed. The Workshop will start with an overview of the concepts proposed in PRÉMA and the results already available in the public domain. The workshop will then invite stakeholders questions, comments and recommendations on the PRÉMA project specifically, but also on how other renewable solutions projects can be advanced to industrial implementation.

Programme

The full programme and agenda for the workshop will be communicated mid-October based on registrations.

The PRÉMA project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 820561.

Renewable Energy Solutions Free Webinar

10:00-10:30
Decentralised energy insights and Renewable energy: A Commercial bank’s perspective
Rentia van Tonder, Standard Bank

10:30-11:00
Renewable energy opportunities for South African gold and platinum mines
Dr Peter Klein, CSIR

11:00-11:30
Opportunities of applying concentrating solar solutions for process heat of up to 1000 °C in South Africa"
Dr.-Ing. Reiner Buck, DLR

12:00-13:00
PRÉMA Workshop

Renewable Energy Webinar Speakers

Rentia van Tonder, Standard Bank

Rentia joined Standard Bank in 2014, with a focus on developing and implementing a new strategy for the bank to become the leading funder of renewable and power projects in Africa.

Earlier in her career, Rentia worked for Absa bank and the Industrial Development Corporation. At IDC she started in the economic research department and was later seconded, as advisor, to the office of the minister of Minerals and Energy. She joined the IDC’s mining business unit when she returned in 2000. She was promoted to Head of the Wood & Paper Strategic business unit in 2003 and later headed the new Green Industries unit.

Rentia joined Absa bank after earning her BSc (Hons) and later completed a Masters in Business Leadership and Executive Development Programme.

Dr Peter Klein, CSIR

Peter Klein holds a BSc.Eng (with distinction) and a Ph.D degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand. He has 10 years of experience in finite element modelling and experimental analysis of high temperature thermal energy storage systems. He is currently employed as a Senior Researcher for the Energy Centre at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in Pretoria, South Africa. His research is focussed on thermal energy systems, including solar thermal technologies for industrial process heat, thermal energy storage and waste heat recovery. Peter is currently spearheading the development of a thermal systems laboratory at the CSIR Energy Centre.

Dr.-Ing. Reiner Buck, DLR

DLR is Germany's research centre for aerospace, energy and other topics. Dr.-Ing. Reiner Buck is head of the department “Solar High Temperature Technologies” in the DLR Institute of Solar Research. Working since 1986 on CSP, he has a sound expertise on receiver and concentrator systems, especially on simulation tools for solar power and chemical systems. He also has experience in receiver testing and in the testing of innovative concentrators. He led and participated in numerous national and international collaboration projects on CSP.