Concentrated Solar Power Technologies and Thermal Storage

A structured, applied course in concentrated solar power and thermal storage — designed to be used the week you return.

📍 Tripoli🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points

Course Overview

The energy transition has not removed the need for rigour in concentrated solar power and thermal storage; it has added to it. Price volatility does not excuse weak discipline in thermal storage — it punishes it. The programme suits teams tackling the wider energy and hydrocarbon operations agenda together as readily as individuals attending alone. Field experience suggests that the barrier to better concentrated solar power and thermal storage is rarely technical. They gain the ability to sequence improvements to the practice within energy and hydrocarbon operations in an order their organisation can absorb. Participants apply thermal storage to their own operating asset throughout, so the output is directly usable. Ambition around concentrated solar power and thermal storage outruns capacity unless the sequencing is deliberate. It treats thermal storage as an operating discipline and equips participants to run it as one. The programme ends where implementation begins, with this area of energy and hydrocarbon operations broken into steps someone can start on Monday.

Expected Learning Outcomes

01

Assess the current state of concentrated solar power and thermal storage against a structured set of criteria rather than impressions.

02

Document decisions about thermal storage in a form that remains useful after the people change.

03

Apply recognised integrity and inspection practice to concentrated solar power and thermal storage.

04

Quantify the production impact of decisions taken on thermal storage.

05

Anticipate the objections that concentrated solar power and thermal storage will attract internally and answer them in advance.

06

Assess thermal storage against the emissions and efficiency targets the organisation has committed to.

07

Verify that contractors working on concentrated solar power and thermal storage meet the same standard as direct staff.

Who Should Attend

01

Managers of multi-site operations seeking consistency in concentrated solar power and thermal storage.

02

Graduate and newly assigned engineers taking responsibility for thermal storage.

03

Maintenance and reliability engineers supporting concentrated solar power and thermal storage.

04

Process safety and technical safety specialists reviewing thermal storage.

05

Facility and plant managers accountable for concentrated solar power and thermal storage.

06

Managers in small and medium organisations who own thermal storage alongside other duties.

Course Modules

01

Concentrated solar power and thermal storage: technical fundamentals and operating envelope

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Testing concentrated solar power and thermal storage before relying on it

  • Identify the failure modes of concentrated solar power and thermal storage with the highest consequence.
  • Set out how exceptions to thermal storage are requested and approved.
  • Define the trigger that would require concentrated solar power and thermal storage to be redesigned.
  • Review incident and near-miss history involving thermal storage.

Session 2The permit and isolation regime that thermal storage actually requires

  • Establish what evidence demonstrates concentrated solar power and thermal storage is under control.
  • Verify six months later that changes to thermal storage have held.
  • Set the review interval for concentrated solar power and thermal storage and who attends.
  • Distinguish symptoms from causes when thermal storage underperforms.
02

Thermal storage: integrity, inspection and condition assessment

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Moving thermal storage from approval to execution

  • Remove steps in concentrated solar power and thermal storage that add effort without adding assurance.
  • Set out the decisions in thermal storage that require sign-off and by whom.
  • Record the technical rationale for the chosen approach to concentrated solar power and thermal storage.
  • Verify isolation points for thermal storage are proven and documented.

Session 2Building the investment case for thermal storage that finance will accept

  • Check that management of change is applied to every modification of concentrated solar power and thermal storage.
  • Name a single owner for each element of thermal storage.
  • Define the safe operating envelope for concentrated solar power and thermal storage and how deviations are detected.
  • Establish the alarm philosophy applying to thermal storage and remove nuisance alarms.
03

Thermal storage: economics, price exposure and investment case

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1The environmental exposure created by thermal storage

  • Verify emergency response arrangements cover the scenarios concentrated solar power and thermal storage can create.
  • Check that the permit regime covering thermal storage matches the actual hazard.
  • Confirm handover documentation for concentrated solar power and thermal storage is complete and current.
  • Identify where judgement in thermal storage is legitimate and where it is not.

Session 2What to measure in concentrated solar power and thermal storage and what to ignore

  • Anticipate the objections concentrated solar power and thermal storage will raise and prepare the answers.
  • Record what was learned when thermal storage did not go as planned.
  • Set the trigger for a life-extension versus replacement study on concentrated solar power and thermal storage.
  • Set escalation thresholds for thermal storage that work out of hours.
04

Thermal storage: incidents, lessons and continual improvement

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Deciding between life extension and replacement for thermal storage

  • Review the instrumentation on concentrated solar power and thermal storage for coverage gaps.
  • Assess the emissions and discharge attributable to thermal storage.
  • Agree the indicators that will show whether concentrated solar power and thermal storage is improving.
  • Estimate the resource thermal storage requires to run as designed.

Session 2Reading condition data on thermal storage before failure, not after

  • Agree the smallest change to concentrated solar power and thermal storage that would be visibly useful.
  • Confirm contractor competence records for anyone working on thermal storage.
  • Confirm that lessons from concentrated solar power and thermal storage are shared beyond the team that learned them.
  • Model the economics of thermal storage at low, base and high price cases.

Choose the package that suits you

Silver Package

At least 3 people

USD1,250
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

Gold Package

At least 3 people

USD1,850
  • 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

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