Research
PurEnergy develops research projects on the current more promising technologies for the efficient production of energy from renewable sources. The projects aim to develop an increased efficiency of systems, and to improve and find out technologies that are still not mature.
In the area of traditional technologies of energy production from renewable sources, PurEnergy is developing the following research activities:
- Wind Power: creation of small-sized production systems that could be used by farms and households;
- Bio-fuels: search for bio-compatible cultivations, with positive energy budgets, and fit for high altitudes (e.g. mountains);
- Mini-hydro: improvemente of the turbines design and possible integrations with other technologies of production;
- development of machines that can improve the processes of installation and set up of renewable energy production plants;
- development and application of new methods of maintenance for wind power and solar plants.
In the areas of technologies not yet ready for an efficient production of energy from renewable sources, we are developing the following research activities:
- solar concentration: research to determine the best functional parameters for this kind of innovative plants;
- wind hydrolisis: study to integrate the wind power technology to the 'combustible cells' technology used to produce hydrogen, especially in off-shore platforms;
- solar hydrolisis: projects to produce hydrogen from the integration of photovotaic energy and 'combustible cells' technology.
In both areas, PurEnergy is interested in researching solutions that favour the integration of these diverse systems of energy production from renewable sources in order to generate those necessary efficiences to help the sector to take off and launch the energy production in these sectors themselves.