Solar-driven Ca-Looping Process for Thermochemical Energy Storage

A clean energy storage system

João Cardoso
Technical Officer, LNEG

João Pereira Cardoso received a MSc in Technological Physics Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) in 2008 and a post-graduation in Economics from Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão (ISEG) in 2012. Between 2008 and 2009 worked as a research and development technician at the R&D department of the company Sun Cool – Climatização Ecológica, S.A., developing prototypes for an absorption chiller powered by solar termal energy and a tri‑generation system. Works at Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia, I.P. (LNEG) since 2009, as Research Grant Holder until 2019 and as Technical Officer afterwards, being dedicated to research, development and demonstration activities within national and European projects, technical and technological consultancy services and public policies support activities.

Participates in several international organizations in the field of solar energy, being national delegate to the General Assembly of the European Solar Research Infrastructure for Concentrated Solar Power (EU-SOLARIS ERIC), alternate national representative at the International Energy Agency’s Solar Heating and Cooling Technology Collaboration Programme (IEA SHC) Executive Committee, member of the Steering Committee of the European Solar Thermal Technology panel of the Renewable Heating and Cooling ETIP, LNEG’s alternate representative at the European Energy Research Alliance’s Joint Programme on Concentrated Solar Power (EERA JP-CSP) and national expert to the International Electrotechnical Committee (IEC) Technical Committee (TC) 117 – Solar Thermal Electric Plants. 

Main areas of interest are solar thermal systems and applications, including solar heating and cooling, solar heat integration in industrial processes and concentrating solar power.