Alberto Sánchez González
Contact information
Office: 1.1.D.07
Phone: 91 624 8345
Email: asgonzal@ing.uc3m.es
Position: Assistant Professor
EDUCATION
- Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 2016.
- Master in Industrial Mechanics | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 2013.
- Master in Building Construction Systems and Techniques | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 2010.
- Mechanical Engineering | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 2008.
AWARDS
- Energies 2020 Travel Awards | Energies, MDPI’s Journal. 2020.
- Outstanding Thesis Award | Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Organization | UC3M 2017.
- ASME Graduate Student Award | American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Solar Energy Division. 2016.
RESEARCH LINES
Concentrating Solar Power | Solar Power Tower:
- Heliostat Field
- Central Receiver
- Experimental | Molten Salt
RESEARCH/TEACHING STAYS
- Sandia National Laboratories. Concentrating Solar Technologies | Albuquerque, USA | 3 months: Sept.-Nov. 2018.
- PROMES-CNRS | Font-Romeu-Odeillo, France | 3 months: May-July 2016.
- Stellenbosch University | Erasmus+ Programme. South Africa | 1 week: June 2018.
- PROMES-CNRS | Font-Romeu-Odeillo, France | Sfera3 short stay. 1 week: July 2019.
FREE SOFTWARE TOOL
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
– Thermal Engineering
– Energy in Buildings
– Instalaciones Térmicas
– Calor y Frío Industrial
– Advanced knowledge of Spreadsheets
SELECTED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
Aiming strategy model based on allowable flux densities for molten salt central receivers
Solar Energy, 2017; 157; 1130–1144
A. Sánchez-González, M.R. Rodríguez-Sánchez, D. Santana
Allowable solar flux densities for molten-salt receivers: Input to the aiming strategy
Results in Engineering, 2020; 5C; 100074
A. Sánchez-González, M.R. Rodríguez-Sánchez, D. Santana
Aiming factor to flatten the flux distribution on cylindrical receivers
Energy, 2018; 153; 113–125
A. Sánchez-González, M.R. Rodríguez-Sánchez, D. Santana
Solar flux distribution on central receivers: A projection method from analytic function
Renewable Energy, 2015; 74; 576-587
A. Sánchez-González, D. Santana
Reflections between heliostats: Model to detect alignment errors
Solar Energy, 2020; 201; 373-386
A. Sánchez-González, J. Yellowhair
Computation of canting errors in heliostats by flux map fitting: experimental assessment
Optics Express, 2020; 28(26); 39868-39889
A. Sánchez-González, B. Grange, C. Caliot
Determination of heliostat canting errors via deterministic optimization
Solar Energy, 2017; 150; 136-146
A. Sánchez-González, C. Caliot, A. Ferrière, D. Santana
Beam-down linear Fresnel reflector: BDLFR
Renewable Energy, 2020; 146; 802-815
A. Sánchez-González, J. Gómez-Hernández