Space Aeronautics and Defense

Consolidation in Space Aeronautics and Defense

CIVIL Safety L9 project SENER’s work on RAMS: reliability engineering TRIBUNE Juan Tomás Hernani General Secretary of Innovation

TECHNOLOGY Single - Tank system for thermal storage in thermosolar plants “I see the universe getting a little bit smaller”

One way to see the future is to look at the stars. This is the aeronautical solutions. And we have come back down to only way to understand SENER's mission in aerospace earth to develop concentrated photovoltaic technologies and engineering. That mission is to bring the universe within our products, and defence and security technologies. And even grasp. Actually we have facilitated the ﬂight of satellites and make a deeper exploration of human beings possible due to spacecrafts even before Man set foot on the moon. We have our advances in medical robotics, expanding the possibilities been conquering the heavens, carried by the wings of our of surgery.

Aerospace The way to see the future

CONTRIBUTORS: Carolina Velez Ernesto Sandulli Fernando Quintana Francesc Gallart Francisco Antolin Guillermo Dierssen Ignacio Pliego Javier Aguirre Javier Viñals Joaquín Botella Jordi Redó Josep María Escuer Maite Gómez Marian Fernández Marisa de la Miyar Nerea Bilbao Nuria Noguera Óscar Julià Óscar Sanjuan On the cover: artistic Rebeca Arriero view of Proba 3 Space . Copyright ESA. Ricardo Casal Mission Sergio Relloso Soledad Garrido Sosthene Ndikuriyo 04 Article Verónica Alonso and Consolidation in Space, Aeronautics Yolanda Gutiérrez. and Defense. 08 Interview PUBLISHING TEAM: Communication SENER. Rafael Quintana, General Manager of : SENER’s Aerospace Strategic EDITORIAL STAFF Business Unit. Oihana Casas, Mariana Fernández, Pilar García, Rosana Madroñal and 10 Tribune Cristina Vidal. Juan Tomás Hernani, General Secretary GRAPHIC of Innovation. DOCUMENTATION: Oihana Casas, 11 Up-to-date Pilar García, Space Lourdes Olabarria and Aeronautics and Vehicles Dorleta Uraga. Defense and Security DESIGN AND LAYOUT: New Markets KAIXO Taller de diseño Civil gráﬁco. Architecture Legal deposit number: Power and Process BI-1804-00 Imprenta Marine Berekintza Group 29 Corporate 34 Technology Single - Tank system for thermal storage in thermosolar plants. 36 In Brief

CIVIL: The Inelfe tunnel.

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AEROSPACE BUSINESS UNIT Consolidation in Space, Aeronautics and Defense With over forty years’ experience in the Aerospace industry, SENER has carved a niche for itself in all of the sectors of this demanding market. Currently, SENER is seeking a starring role, taking charge of large projects and competing on an international level on all fronts.

he projects that SENER is performing which requires the ability to function in nowadays in the Aerospace market are pronounced temperature gradients; in the field of T an example of the increasing level of optical payloads, such as the UV camera for the responsibility the company has been assuming. World Space Observatory, a collaborative project At the present time, SENER in all of its sectors between Spain and Russia where SENER will is addressing increasingly complex systems and be responsible for delivering the entire camera obtaining higher priced contracts. which will later be integrated into the satellite; In the Space industry, SENER is the byword and in Guidance, Navigation and Control systems for excellence in precision mechanisms: by (GNC), where SENER will be responsible for the supplying the full system of mid and high-range entire Proba-3 mission, in addition to the specific antennas for the Beppi Colombo satellite, activities of NTE-SENER in Space. In the field of Defense, SENER has achieved milestones such as becoming the industry leader in missile subsystems: supplying Taurus missiles for the Spanish Air Force, as the prime contractor for the project completed in 2010; participating as the design authority for the actuator system for IRIS-T and Meteor; and currently being involved in the promotion of the future air defense system for the Spanish Army and Air Force, entitled Sagitario. In Aeronautics and Vehicles, SENER has the capability to deliver detailed designs for complete automotive and rail vehicles, as well as for large installations for complex tooling for aeronautical production lines. Lastly, in solar applications, over the last two years SENER has supplied over 3,500 actuators for precision solar tracking for applications in the solar power market, for both solar and photovoltaic power plants, making

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it a leader in this market. And in biomedical In this page, above: technology and devices, SENER, through NTE- artistic view of the Beppi Colombo SENER, has developed two products that will soon satellite, for which be marketed: a robot assistant for laparoscopic SENER supplies surgery and an automatic seeding system for the full system of Petri dishes for analyses, both of which are in the mid and high range medical testing phase. antennas. Below: integration of the Herschel and Planck A path marked by diversiﬁcation scientiﬁc satellites, SENER’s foray into the Aerospace market two SENER projects. dates back to 1967, when the company won an In the previous page: test in the international competition held by the ESRO (the © ESA NTE-SENER facilities precursor to the European Space Agency) for of the MARES the design and construction of a launch tower decade to specialization among the strategic system, a ESA project in Kiruna, Sweden. After this debut, SENER Defense sectors, such as missiles. Along with this for research into continuous growth in the strategic sectors of the the effects caused gained quick access to the flight segment by zero gravity on for space projects, and in the 80’s joined the Aerospace area, starting in 2008 SENER decided human muscles. Eurojet Consortium to develop the motor for the to boost its capacity in the fields of Biomedicine and Eurofighter European fighter aircraft. Based on this Solar Industry. project, which led to the creation of the company 43 years after Kiruna, SENER is a trailblazer Industria de Turbopropulsores (ITP), SENER and an industry paradigm in the Space, Defense, entered the field of Aeronautics. At the dawn of Aeronautics and Vehicular sectors, both in the 21st Century, SENER made the decision to Spain and internationally. SENER, since its extend its activities from developing and supplying beginnings, has always been competing in this Actuator and Control Systems to the Space global market, supplying services and products industry, where an extremely limited amount of to what are recognized as the ‘prime contractors’. units are produced, to the fields of Aeronautics and Nevertheless, in its most recent projects, Defense. where the production quantities are larger. SENER has become a prime contractor itself, a This decision implied taking a step toward mass strategy that is in line with its last Strategic Plan, production of the products that led in the previous for 2008-10, which recently concluded.

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In this page: Moving up the value chain This increase of responsibility in traditional mechanical In its Strategic Plan for 2008-2010, SENER made markets has combined with the opening of new integration of the markets which, while developed for the mid to Taurus missil in a decision to increase its level of responsibility SENER’s Integration in its aerospace projects, accepting larger long term, have also set certain trends throughout and Test Centre contracts. This involved taking on challenges in this latest strategic plan: thanks to the mass in Tres Cantos an already full system instead of limiting itself to production capacities SENER has acquired in (Madrid). In the next components, and focusing its line of business on the defense market, the company also began page, on the left: high accuracy two product orientation. mass production of products for the Solar Power axes drive MASS And this is exactly what they did: over the industry. In this field, SENER is marketing a installed in a solar last three years SENER has been able to win and high precision tracking mechanism called MASS, plant. On the right, execute high-level contracts, such as the Attitude which is one of the best selling mechanisms in above: Meteor concentrated solar power plants. Meanwhile, over missil integrated in and Orbit Control Systems (AOCS) of Herschel a ﬁghter aircraft. and Planck, where it was the prime contractor the last three years SENER has burst onto the Below: wing stringer for the system, and the primary payload for the biomedical system scene, a market with a high production and SEOSAT satellite, a high resolution camera. technological content where it had already made positioning cell for In Defense, it has been the head design significant engineering developments and which the Airbus A350 XWB assembly line authority for missile subsystems and delivery requires the type of products developed by its in Stade, Germany, of Taurus missiles to the Air Force as prime Aerospace Business Unit. To this end, SENER another SENER contractor. And in Aeronautics and Vehicles, acquired the instrumentation and space division project. SENER has evolved toward delivering large of the company NTE, integrating its team into complex tooling packages in turn-key projects that the NTE-SENER brand which specializes in require a higher level of responsibility and the Biomedical and Space systems, and which develops ability to acquire significant supplies. life and science support projects, particularly for large scientific land installations. The growth in contracts and capacity from the last Strategic Plan involved practically doubling the company’s budget; currently, SENER’s Aerospace Business Unit has a billing volume of over 120 million euros and employs over 500 individuals. This is a trend that SENER expects to continue in its next Strategic Plan (for 2011-13), albeit to a more moderate extent due to the current contraction of the global market. At any rate, there are prospects for growth in all of the company’s areas, including in its new market niches.

Facility growth The changes that have taken place over the last ten years due to entering into production contracts have implied launching new manufacturing and mass-production facilities. Along with the traditional clean rooms and laboratories necessary for space activities, in recent years SENER has built buildings for the Integration

PROJECT LEADER OF PROBA-3. satellites, which will be placed in a solar occulter and the instrument by SENER is prime contractor for the highly eccentric orbit around the Earth, around 150 meters. Proba-3 formation flying mission of various experimental maneuvers will SENER has been a part of this program the European Space Agency (ESA). be performed and measurements since 2007, with the start of the bridging The company has recently been acquired to evaluate the benefits of phase to consolidate the initial project awarded the contract for Phase B, the new equipment that this mission studies (Phase A), which go back meaning that the engineering firm requires. The mission will also be to 2006. In that initial participation will be responsible of conducting the able to evaluate the precision and phase, SENER led the team in charge project, which will conclude with the stability of these maneuvers in the of the Formation Flying Management verification of the system in orbit. It is relative position of both spacecrafts. In and the Guidance, Navigation and also the first Spanish company to lead addition, the mission will incorporate Control (GNC) system. In November a complete ESA mission. a coronagraph (an instrument for 2009, negotiations began for SENER Proba-3 is a demonstration mission for analyzing the solar corona) that will to assume leadership of the project, the technology required for formation also benefit from the possibilities that which culminated in the signature of the flying. Starting with two Proba mini- Proba-3 is providing, by separating the Phase B contract last March 29th.

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43 years after Kiruna, SENER is a reference industry and a centre of excellence in the Space, Defense and Test Division: facilities located in Madrid and Barcelona that will make it possible to tackle and Aeronautics and Vehicles the integration of entire systems instead of just sectors, both in components. Currently, certain large volume projects are being conducted in these facilities, Spain and internationally. which were specifically designed to be expandable so as to take on larger projects. For example, SENER’s office complex in Barcelona will have projects and its stature as a reference industry in facilities for both the work that SENER performs missile subsystems, such as the ability to provide in Aeronautics and Vehicles development and for complete systems to the Ministry of Defense. the products and activities of NTE-SENER. With In Aeronautics and Vehicles, SENER’s activity these foundations, the company can face future related to vehicles continues to grow, and its main challenges with confidence. objective is to diversify both its customer base and its line of complex tools, with new products Consolidation over the next three years and new markets so as to create facilities outside The future of SENER’s Aerospace Business Unit of Spain with other industrial partners. Lastly, will be one of continued growth in all sectors in medical systems and products for the Solar of the Aerospace market. In the Space sector, Industry, SENER expects further expansion in the SENER aims at being the first company to develop medium and long term, with the developments it components and systems for the flight segment now has in the pipeline framed within a specific in the Spanish industry, and one of the leading long-term strategic plan. companies in the international market for this type By nature, all of these markets are highly of systems, in this sector’s three areas of activity: competitive, global and marked by a constant precision mechanisms; Guidance, Navigation and search for innovative solutions. SENER’s Control systems (GNC); and optical payloads. consolidation in all of them, where it has achieved In Defense, SENER is very close to being the a steady increase in the level of the responsibility number one missile company in Spain, both of its contracts, is a testimony to the company’s due to its tireless participation in international know-how and commercial competence.

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We are looking for contracts with greater responsibilities in our three sectors of activity Rafael Quintana General Manager of SENER’s Aerospace Strategic Business Unit.

Question: SENER has been working in as an engineering company, made a Spain. The Defense market in Spain is the Aerospace industry for 43 years, conscious decision to orient itself toward also suffering budget cuts. This situation where it has conquered the Space, mass production, something which was affects SENER indirectly, first of all Defense and Aeronautics and Vehicles already occurring in the Space sector, because we still have a significant job markets, how has this diversification but not to any great extent. This decision load, coming from long term production been possible? was in response to the fact that the three contracts we were awarded years ago, Rafael Quintana: SENER has grown traditional markets of the Aerospace which allow us to keep our activity level in these areas thanks to the capabilities Industry (Aeronautics and Vehicles, up. Secondly, because we are present in inherent to its structure: SENER is Defense and Space) don’t demand international markets: for example, the not organized by market, but rather by engineering, but rather products. In this contracts in the missile market which technology. Thus, in this diversification way, the company was equipped with are one of SENER’s specialties include process, it has reused existing technology, production centres, Integration and Test international programs which also offer applying it to other markets and other centres, and focused its activities on a significant importing opportunity. In products, while in some cases it had to developing the disciplines necessary for fact, we are currently producing units to strengthen them and in others it wasn’t being able to deliver a mass-produced export to Norway, Poland, South Africa, necessary to acquire new technology, as product to the market: it took control and Austria, among other countries. in the case of optics and production skills. of the supply chain and took charge of The conclusion we’ve been able to Organizing the company this way, by the whole process, from initial product draw from this global crisis is that we technology, is what makes SENER a unique configuration to sales, production, need to move into the export market to company with its multidisciplinary character. testing, and so on. We continued to adapt internationalize our production activity In fact, SENER is one of the few Spanish ourselves to give the markets the products itself. This is not just about exporting companies – they can be counted on one they were demanding. to other markets, but also developing hand – that has activities in the three sectors: Q.: Has the recent economic crisis our activities in other countries. This Aeronautics, Space and Defense. Our affected us? objective is part of the Strategic Plan for engineers migrate from one sector to another R.Q.: Without a doubt; it’s a situation 2011-2013 that has just begun. by participating in projects for Space, that concerns us. To a certain degree Q.: To what degree can the Aerospace Defense and Aeronautics and Vehicles. we depend on institutional budgets, like Strategic Business Unit benefit from Q.: The product orientation is that of the European Space Agency. SENER’s internationalization? increasingly clearer; why is that so? However, the Space sector is seeing R.Q.: Our strategy is to follow the R.Q.: Ten years ago SENER, which continuity, being a strategic sector for SENER Group in its international was known in the Aerospace market technical and industrial development in development, which is becoming very

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Q.: Where is SENER currently situated in the international Aerospace sector, and where would it like to be situated in the future? R.Q.: Today SENER is an industry leader in Space, Aeronautics and Vehicles and Defense. In the future, the company would like to consolidate its position in these three sectors in the international market by obtaining contracts with greater responsibilities, in addition to continuing its expansion into new markets. All of these fields are competitive by nature, and the competition is international; but SENER since the beginning has been used to working in these conditions, and is currently working successfully in all of these markets. I’d say that the medium-term challenge is internationalization, both in opportunities that we will have to find in markets outside of Europe, and in important, and in exporting. SENER’s people. We have to train teams The Aerospace Strategic Business “Our strategy that integrate Spanish professionals, Unit has thus identified the following who see our international projection as countries as areas for expansion: in a source of personal and professional Europe, Poland, a country that is present is to follow development, and professionals from the in the Aeronautics and Defense other countries where we will be active, markets and wants to develop a Space the SENER who will help us consolidate our position program, and where SENER has an in these new markets. operational division; in the Middle Group in its Q.: Finally, do you think that Society East, the United Arab Emirates, where understands the investment in the we also have an office and some very international Aerospace sector in the context of the important industrial and commercial current crisis? connections with joint companies in development R.Q.: I think so. Even in these other fields of activity, as well as in difficult times, Society sees that neighboring countries; in South America, the path to getting out of the crisis Brazil in one of our target markets, and is technological development and since it has significant aeronautic technological skill. And for this we and defense activity and also has a exporting” have to boost the development of a space program. We’re trying to find specialized industry like Aerospace. activities that we can perform in these Space is a magnificent example of how countries by transferring technology companies, by using financing from from the divisions in Spain to the support of the domestic market to have public administrations for technological international divisions, in order to have credibility beyond our borders. development and their own R&D the international ones execute projects Finally, SENER’s engineering and investments, have achieved an industrial both in their own markets and in the production fall under the SENER Group, skill level that then flowed over international market. This is one of the and in this sense, the skills and means to other sectors. SENER is a good objectives of the next Strategic Plan of production of ITP, for example, can example of this: almost all of our current 2011-2013. help SENER enter other markets. activity in the Aerospace market In Defense, the domestic market SENER Group’s vision is becoming more comes from developments in the has budget constraints, but it is crucial and more present in the global strategy Space and Defense sectors for the support it lends to our export of all of its business areas and will which we have later applied to other and internationalization activities: the help us find mechanisms for everyday fields. Products for the solar domestic market makes it possible collaboration in the short term: joint market or biomedical technology for the industry to become engaged with opportunities, shared access to clients and devices benefit from the knowledge new products that later find continuity and markets, strategic supplies developed in projects for the within the international market through of mutual information, etc., which will Space and Defense sectors as dual exporting. In other words, we need the undoubtedly benefit the Group. technology.

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JUAN TOMÁS HERNANI, GENERAL SECRETARY OF INNOVATION The second stage in the national strategy for innovation e2i I have often quoted a phrase from Jorge Sendagorta that has helped me push for Innovation from my position of responsibility: “Innovation has always been a good business, if you devote yourself to good businesses.”

we should do, and when it is that we’ll reach the level of THE OFFICE OF THE GENERAL investment at which most of Europe already is TODAY, SECRETARY OF before moving on to the second part of the journey - INNOVATION, reaching 3%. A balanced investment of 1.9%, with a balanced WITH THE virtuous circle between investment and economic impact. RANK OF UNDERSECRETARY, To achieve this, in 2009 the Office of the General BELONGS TO Secretary of Innovation first formulated a nationwide THE MINISTRY strategy for innovation (e2i). This strategy contains several OF SCIENCE AND key factors that operate in the market, breaking the linear INNOVATION. mold of research-technology transfer and supplementing ITS DUTIES INCLUDE DRIVING, it with a ‘five-walled garden’ that has a larger economic DISSEMINATING, component. As shown in last year’s COTEC report, “the e2i GUIDING AND represents a remarkable milestone in the history of COORDINATING science and innovation in Spain; it formulates a long-term THE POLICY OF BUSINESS strategy, with indicators for private investment, jobs, INNOVATION IN and numbers of companies, and sets its goal as the doubling ALL SECTORS of Spain’s innovation economy by 2015.” AND ACTIVITIES, The e2i puts together three high-impact objectives: AT BOTH doubling research investment (€6 billion in additional NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL investment each year), doubling the number of companies LEVELS. involved in innovation (40,000 additional companies), and increasing the number of medium and high-tech jobs by 500,000, including services. These goals are targeted for 2015, allowing time for the legislature, the media, and other economic rhythms to take up the challenge. t’s the best way to express the idea that innovation The e2i develops five mainstays: capital and financing means turning knowledge into money, just like for R&D, public procurement and innovation based I research means turning money into knowledge. on demand, globalization through technology, regional How’s business going with this cycle in Spain? Is it cooperation in Spain and, finally, people and innovative jobs. closed or open? The e2i therefore rejects uninspired, backward conflict In its Europe 2020 strategy, the European between science and business. Instead, it proposes a Commission has dared to formulate its own specific scheme focused on a knowledge-based market, through goal to have a sound, knowledge-based society. It these five mainstays of the five-sided garden of innovation, reiterates, eleven years on from when the Lisbon which serve as the foundation for constructing the Agenda was set out, that this magic number is an Ministry’s policy within stable, medium-term framework. investment of 3% of GDP on research and development, 2011 is the time for the business world to better with 2% of that being private and the other 1% public. understand the assertion made by the President of This scenario involves recognizing that private and SENER: that innovation is business, that it creates public investment must coexist and give one another opportunities and jobs, and that in this positive feedback. The fact is that the first category must be international casuistry, all players can have an active TWICE AS MUCH as the second if we want it to lead us mission in the generation of value-added jobs. almost unerringly to economic value. And that second When this Office of the Secretary finds itself in the last source of investment is necessary as a source of knowledge, legislative session, it is concerned about compromising operating within its own areas, but it must drive the first one. the issues that have been pending and planned from the There are not yet many critics of this strategy, outset in the e2i: capital, innovative public procurement although there are those who criticize public investment, and jobs, while at the same time providing society with a and those who criticize private investment. system that triples mobilized economic activity, that focuses Spain, however, is looking at a figure of 1.38% of GDP on credit and large-scale projects, that strengthens activity being invested in R&D, with the average for all of Europe under the new Science, Technology, and Innovation being 1.9%. It is therefore wise to ask ourselves what Act, and that puts businesses at the center of this activity.

10 SENER noticias 41/SPRING 2011 Up p todate: Space WORLD SPACE OBSERVATORY - UV THIRD GENERATION METEOSAT LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS Aeronautics and Vehicles SINTONIA PROJECT ELGA PROJECT Defense and Security AGREEMENT WITH EUROTORP UAS CAMCOPTER S-100 New Markets BIOCHIP PROCESSING STATION ACTUATION MECHANISMS Civil PANAMA METRO PYRENEES INTERCONNECTING ELECTRIC LINE SAFETY L9 PROJECT SECTION 2 OF THE RAILWAY LINE IN GRAN CANARIA THE PAJARES RAILWAY LINK

Architecture ENLARGEMENT OF SENER MADRID Power and Process CSP PROJECTS IN SPAIN HELSOLAR PROJECT AMPLIFICATION OF THE BBG REGASIFICATION TERMINAL COMBINED CYCLE POWER PLANT IN CERRO DRAGÓN CARACOL QUINTERO PLANT IN CHILE TC GRAN PROJECT Marine FORAN V70: FVIEWER TECHNICAL SUPPORT CENTRE IN CHINA FORAN IN NAVANTIA BESST PROJECT OCEAN LIDER R&D PROJECT BRAZILIAN PROJEMAR LANDING HELICOPTER DOCK JUAN CARLOS I SEVERNOYE DESIGN BUREAU Group GEMASOLAR THERMOSOLAR PLANT Up-to-date: Space

to manufacture of its structural and LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS thermal model. ISSIS will contain two channels: the first one, the HSC (High Sensitivity On-line Channel), will work between 1150 Å and 2000 Å and will be focused on observing Chemical very weak sources; the second is the CFS Water Quality WORLD SPACE OBSERVATORY - UV (Channel for Surveys), which will work between 1150 Å and 8000 Å. Analysis This work represents the greatest Design of collaborative project in space research Equipment and technology between Spain and Spanish cargo Russia. World Space Observatory - Ultraviolet is the responsibility of the Along with oxygen, water is an on board the Russian space agency, Roscosmos. The indispensable element for a spaceship WSO-UV observatory will have a 24-hour circular crew’s survival, and from the point of orbit, with a 35,800 km altitude and a view of transportation and mass, 51.41o inclination. In addition to ISSIS, it it doubtlessly proves to be the SENER has been awarded the design will have other spectrographs as cargo. most critical. of the Spanish load on board the World The WSO-UV will be launched when Due to this fact, the implementation Space Observatory - Ultraviolet Hubble’s useful life ends, which means of efficient water recovery and recycling (WSO-UV). That load will be named that ISSIS will be the instrument systems, as part of the overall Life ISSIS (Imaging and Slitless Spectroscopy used by all UV scientists to carry out Support functions in long-term manned Instrument for Surveys), and will their work, which gives an idea as to planetary or lunar exploration be responsible for providing images how important this project is within the missions, is an unavoidable objective as and spectography in a spectral range international context. water re-supplying becomes including ultra-violet and optic In the image: artistic image of the actually unfeasible. (1150 Å – 8000 Å). SENER’s work WSO-UV, courtesy of the Complutense Strict quality control will be absolutely includes the preliminary ISSIS design up University of Madrid. necessary for water produced through recycling processes, which is why the FINAL RESULTS European Space Agency (ESA) has included carrying out an equipment definition study for real-time chemical MTG scanner analysis of water quality within the mechanism activities in their TRP (Technology Research Programme). Its purpose is to development select and perform feasibility tests for the most suitable analysis technique in model space in order to monitor chemical water quality online, and especially specific contaminants, such as certain heavy SENER has carried out a development awarded to the TAS / OHB consortium, metals and other ions. model for the visible camera scanner for had its kick-off meeting this last The company NTE-SENER was the Third Generation Meteosat (MTG) November of 2010. The tenders for the bidder awarded this project, the the flight model will be received in the satellite. The design is a model representing estimated duration of which is 18 months. the most critical and novel technologies following months. NTE-SENER will be the main contractor for the scanner mechanism, including ﬁner SENER has carried out this project along with direct responsibility for managing resolution aspects and dynamic system with ASTRIUM. the project, conceptual design, all aspects stability. It should also be noted that there In the image: vibration test in a related with the space environment and is another consortium working on the same mechanism’s component at CTA facilities. scanner in a parallel project development. the proposal for future implementation of the equipment. One of the priorities of this development, THE MAIN RESULTS. which has now ended, was the use of previous The visible camera scanner Collaborating with the company European technologies and experiences; for development model has demonstrated: NTE-SENER is the Autonomous example, capacities at critical aspects, such eì8%&-0-8=ì-2ì7'%22-2+ì)6636ì¹ì@ìÔ6%(@ University of Barcelona (UAB) and the as ﬂexural pivots, developed by SENER eì6)'-7-32ì3*ì%2+90%6ì43-28-2+ì National Centre for Microelectronics (High Accuracy Flexural Hinge Assembly, 6)78-898-32ì%6392(ì@ìÔ6%(@ as experts in analysis techniques and HAFHA), and the LAT toroidal or encoder eì38%0ì437-8-32ì46)'-7-32ì¹ììÔ6%(@ biosensors, as well as the CETaqua high resolution and precision motor. eì)',%2-'%0ì7=78)1ì:)6-æ'%8-32ì Water Technology Centre as a specialist 6)+%6(-2+ì%(1-77-&0)ì:-&6%8-32ì0):)07@ The Third Generation Meteosat project, in water quality control.

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ELGA PROJECT Electromechanical actuator for Landing Gear

SINTONIA PROJECT actuation in helicopters

Since 2007, SENER has been carrying Unmanned out several studies for the Eurocopter systems group, the EADS division for helicopter production, which today is the worldwide designed for zero industry leader. Aligned with the current trend toward a ‘more electric aircraft’, environmental SENER’s studies have always been focused on introducing electromechanical actuators impact in these helicopters, substituting the hydraulic ones. SENER participates in the SINTONIA Concepts have been developed for project in the actuation and control surfaces diverse applications (trimming, control, area. The engineering company is carrying tail plane, landing gear) for different out two parallel projects: one dedicated to models, including NH90, EC135 or EC175. electromechanical actuators (EMA), and the Concretely, for the most recent landing other regarding control surfaces (winglets), gear application, SENER managed to reach adaptive and with the capacity to modify their the supplier short list, and their technical shape or morphing capacity. capacity was recognized in the final solution. For electromechanical actuators, SENER is As a consequence of this design, SENER studying two smart actuator types for typical has carried out internal development, kinematics in unmanned systems, where funded by the Basque Government available space and weight are very critical through the INTEK program, which has requirements. The systems to be developed included the manufacture, assembly and are linear and rotary actuators for rudder or testing of prototypes for the most critical winglet-type surfaces. EMA actuators will have requirements. This is the ELGA project. monitoring systems integrated for predictive In addition to this development, maintenance. The intent is to finally compare the the company maintains relations with two actuation system types and their services to Eurocopter, even though the group has cut develop the optimum unmanned system. investment in R+D, and there are even other The design will be as modular as possible in initiatives in action, such as the European order to reach different operational ranges for Actuation 2015 project, which may give way, different types of unmanned systems. mid-term, to serial industrial production. In addition, SENER is participating In the image: temperature and load test in the study of alternative aerodynamic cycling for the ELGA project. configurations. Within this field, development is focused on the design of winglets based TEST IN ELGA. In ELGA, the landing system has shown proper behavior. on biomimetic concepts. As such, both the system is composed of a nose landing A buckling test has also been performed geometry and the capacity to modify the shape gear system, two main gears and the with a compression load (86,000 N), observed in nature during bird flight will prove control and system monitoring. One wherein the actuator showed proper useful for designing the winglets, which will of these actuators has been tested for behavior up to 70,000 N, although copy the morphing capacity by using materials temperature and load cycles and for buckling appeared on the output rod. such as piezos or Shape Memory Alloys buckling, a critical condition produced After a visual inspection, excepting this during an unexpected landing on one element, the rest of the elements (motor, (SMA). The Laboratory of Fluid Mechanics at of the gears. brake, screw/nut) were operative. the School of Higher Education of Aeronautic The ELGA electromechanical actuator As such, with some minimum design Engineers of Madrid collaborates with has been subjected to 24-hour cyclic optimization, it may be considered that SENER on this project by validating tests (strokes of 0 to 400 mm) in the actuator has been satisfactorily the adaptive winglets in tunnel, as does the a temperature-controlled chamber designed and verified. research centre INASMET-Tecnalia, (from -40ºC to +70ºC, with peak In light of these excellent results, which will take charge of manufacturing load at 3,500 N), in the Aeronautical SENER hopes to be able to present this representative models and performing tests. Technologies Centre (CTA, in its actuator at the Paris Air Show 2011, to Spanish acronym) of Álava, and the be held in June. In the image: SENER MICROEMA prototype.

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AGREEMENT WITH EUROTORP

SENER will © SCHIEBEL participate in the promotion and production of the MU90 torpedo in Spain

Eurotorp, the French-Italian consortium, world leader in the field of light weight torpedo, and SENER have signed an Industrial Cooperation Agreement for the promotion and production of the advanced lightweight torpedo MU90, with the aim of addressing a potential future acquisition by the Spanish Navy. The Parties have agreed to cooperate together to pursue the objective of exploiting the SENER technological and industrial capability, including the installation of an assembly line in Spain, for the manufacturing of some parts of MU90 for the Spanish Navy and Eurotorp export CAMCOPTER® S-100 UAS market. MU90 lightweight torpedo is in service within the French, Italian, German, Polish and Danish Navies, and has been SENER supports Schiebel accepted by the Commonwealth of Australia. during a demonstration The French-Italian consortium Eurotorp is the world leader in the field of Lightweight in Spain Torpedoes (LWT) and associated systems. Eurotorp is fully responsible for commercial management, program management, The CAMCOPTER® S-100 Unmanned Air its wider capabilities and flexibility. technical coordination, industrial System (UAS) successfully demonstrated The scenarios were chosen by the coordination and after sales. The consortium in a series of flights its capabilities to Spanish Authorities and included littoral is certified ISO 9001 & AQAP 2110. the Spanish Military and a number of surveillance, stand-off surveillance and Spanish Other Government Departments vehicular tracking sorties. From left to right: SENER Aerospace Business Unit Assistant Manager, Santiago (OGDs) during November 2010. The demonstrations were carried H. Ariño, and Eurotorp General Manager, Once again Schiebel’s unmanned out with the full support of Schiebel’s Nunzio Saporoso, during the signature helicopter CAMCOPTER® S-100 partners in Spain, SENER as of the agreement. convinced representatives of the Spanish technological partner and A. Paukner Military and a number of Spanish OGDs S.A. (APSA) as sales representative, of its outstanding capabilities as a who were instrumental in ensuring that Vertical Take-Off and Landing VTOL all clearances, certification and logistics UAS, after series of sorties were flown issues were fully addressed. from Torregorda land testing site (in Feedback from the visiting officers Cádiz, Andalusia). was extremely positive and the In support, a number of presentations partnership collectively conformed by were given to the attending officers Schiebel, SENER and APSA covering the unique capabilities of the makes a formidable team of experts CAMCOPTER® S-100 and its varied dedicated to customer satisfaction and portfolio of available payloads. meeting the Spanish UAS needs of Several mission profiles were flown, the future. demonstrating the UAS’ manual and In the image: CAMCOPTER S-100 during a automatic modes whilst highlighting demonstration flight.

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BIOCHIP PROCESSING STATION ALMERIA SOLAR PLATFORM New development for the Contract for biomedicine industry supplying 150 two axes drives Thanks to the knowledge acquired in marking genes for sickness prognostics the space engineering field, concretely and tumor classification stand out. for high pointing in the development of instrumentation As of today, the analysis process for for the confirmation of the existence of microarrays and biochips is still long and accuracy life on Mars, SENER has designed and laborious. The specialist must handle produced a Biochip Processing Station the samples, the reactive agents and the solar tracking (EPB, in its Spanish acronym) for the microarrays with extreme caution to avoid biomedicine market. possible contamination. Although there The Spanish Ministry of Science and are currently devices that automate some Innovation, through CIEMAT, has of the steps in this process, there are none awarded SENER the supply contract that automate the entire process. This is for 150 two axes drives for high pointing the main goal of the Biochip Processing Station, developed by SENER. accuracy solar tracking for the Almeria The EPB analyzes 24 microarrays Solar Platform (PSA, in its Spanish at the same time, in a completely acronym). Once again, the PSA, automatic fashion, without the need worldwide reference in concentrated for specialist intervention; in this way, solar power, places its trust in SENER’s the risk of contamination and analysis technology for heliostat positioning. time are reduced. The EPB is mainly Heliostats are formed by mirror facets formed by two modules: the handling and and their mission is to concentrate solar hybridization module, and the illumination radiation on one point, the receiver. To this and reading module. end, mirrors must permanently be pointed In the last years, microarrays (multiplex SENER has carried out the complete laboratories in a chip) and biochips have design of the Biochip Processing Station with enormous precision, which is achieved become a fundamental tool in biomedicine and the production of a prototype as part with a high-performances two axes drive. and for the development of medicines. of the internal technology developments The CESA I installation, located Amongst the numerous applications for bio-medical applications. The company at the PSA, is a worldwide pioneer in of microarrays, the determination of foresees its future commercialization in validation and test of central-tower receiver gene expression profiles, the selection medical centers and laboratories. technology. This facility has more than of biomarkers, pharmacogenomics, In the image: Biochip Processing Station 300 heliostats, all with high precision toxicogenomics, the identification of (EPB) prototype designed by SENER. drives, designed and manufactured by SENER, which installed its first models in ACTUATION MECHANISMS from the tower. Each heliostat has a 120 m2 this plant, coinciding with its inauguration mirrored surface which is continuously in 1983. SENER heliostats have been Supply for oriented throughout the day. This solar operative for more than 30 years, and the concentration method requires a high level new generation of mechanisms delivered of pointing accuracy for its proper operation, is taking over to continue fulfilling their the 2,650 which is achieved with the high performances Gemasolar two axes drive incorporated into each heliostat function throughout the next 30 years. and that is a critical component for this plant heliostats type. The drives are not only characterized by their high precision, but also by their high ends load capacity, low maintenance, reliability, robustness and long life cycle. SENER designs, manufactures and SENER has made the last delivery of two supplies a high performances two axes drive axes drives for heliostats for the Gemasolar which is the most marketed drive in the world plant, the first commercial-scale plant in the for central-tower receiver plants nowadays. world that applies central-tower receiver The complete supply for Gemasolar has technology and thermal storage of molten been possible thanks to the new SENER Tests salts. Gemasolar has a solar field made up of and Integration facilities, and the team of 2,650 heliostats, distributed in rings around professionals that have dealed with production In the image: SENER actuation mechanism the tower, the furthest one located at 1 km loads higher than 400 monthly units. installed both in the PSA and in Gemasolar.

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of several bus lines. In this context, the Panama metro is conceived as a mass transport system with high capacity. SENER carries out the design of the underground stretch for the first line of this metro, that will have conventional metro type trains with steel wheels, with five cars maximum and a total length of 91 m and 2.71 m waist wide, with a maximum capacity estimated for transporting 39,000 passengers per hour - way. This new assignment confirms SENER’s PANAMA METRO including the associated ventilation and growing presence in Latin America, with emergency rescue shafts. works coordinated from different offices in Panama City is the capital and largest projects in Argentina, Mexico, Venezuela, Detailed design city of the Republic of Panama. Being Chile, Colombia, etc. In Panama, along with the political and administrative center of this new contract, it is worth mentioning of the Line 1 the country, and a hub for international that SENER led a European engineering banking and commerce, the city registers group that prepared the technical bid for the SENER has been awarded by Consorcio an intense traffic daily. A lot of inhabitants extension of the Canal for Consorcio Línea Uno, a joint venture between the depend on public transport systems for their Canal (the Canal Consortium), which was companies Odebrecht (55%) and FCC trips, while there are frequent traffic jams, a finalist in this important project, and (45%), the contract for the detailed design due to the high levels of private transport which shows the extent of SENER’s civil of the complete civil works of the Panama ownership. Transport problems in Panama engineering capacity in the continent. In metro Line 1, located in Panama City. City are really affecting the population that tender, the design elaborated under The works put out to contract comprise quality of life. To solve this problem, the SENER’s management achieved the biggest the Albrook – Transístmica underground city is looking for ways to improve the city score among all the presented proposals. stretch, of 7.1 km long in double track transport systems to reinforce its public In the image: artistic view of the Panama tunnel, as well as five metro stations, transportation that nowadays consists metro line 1 designed by SENER.

SPANISH-FRENCH CONTRACT with direct current (DC). The nominal voltage for power connection is + 320 kV for a maximum power load of 2,000 MW, Tunnel for with bi-directional power flow, in such a fashion that the interconnection is Pyrenees capable of operating in the same way in interconnecting both directions. The Albères mountain range junction electric line requires the excavation of an 8.5 km tunnel between Montesquieu-des-Albères and La Jonquera, work which has been awarded to Inelfe (Interconnexion électrique des the Spanish-French consortium containing Pyrénées Catalanes), a joint venture with SENER. To carry it out, two tunnel Red Eléctrica de España S.A. (REE) and excavators will be put to work on each implies expropriations, studies on affected Réseau du Transport d’Électricité (RTE) end. It should be reminded that said tunnel services and organization site studies along has awarded SENER, in consortium with runs alongside the Perthus tunnel for the with Dragados. another four companies, the contract to Figueras – Perpignan high speed line, which SENER, along with Dragados, is the construct the tunnel for the Pyrenees SENER also participated on. Spanish representation in this Spanish- interconnecting electric line. SENER is also in charge of engineering French contract. SENER acts as support The agreement reached in 2008 by for the Portal Sur design (Spanish side), engineering for Dragados, a constructor the French and Spanish governments which includes a maintenance building on the Spanish side. For the French, there includes the construction of a 60 km and facilities and a false tunnel; it is also is the constructor Eiffrage, ARCADIS as interconnection for power transportation responsible for the structural calculation of Eiffrage support engineering and Setec as between both countries, between the the tunnel, which implies the determination responsible for calculating facilities. towns of Baixas (Eastern Pyrenees), in of voussoirs and deﬁning the tunnel boring This project, which began in the month of France, and Santa Llogaia d’Àlguema machine, and the tunnel layout, whose February, is expected to end in the (Gerona), in Spain. This line, the first interior diameter will be 3.5 m, with voussoir year 2013. electric interconnection network between thickness of 0.25 m; in the same fashion, it In the image: artistic view of the Portal Sur different countries in the European will carry out the integration of facilities in design of the tunnel, for which SENER is in Union, is projected as underground and the tunnel and at the South Mouth, which charge of the engineering.

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in order to avoid an improper operation that could lead to a dangerous situation for people. The SENER team has taken charge of defining, distributing and assigning safety requirements to each one of the different responsible sub-systems. The last objective has been to compile safety evidence for said sub-systems to demonstrate that all potential dangers that SENER has identified for each one of them have been covered. All this information has been compiled in the Safety Case of the whole line, which is the key safety document in obtaining L9 SAFETY PROJECT the Safety Certificate from the General Management of Land Transportation (DGTT, in its Spanish acronym) from SENER’s work on RAMS: the Catalan regional government. The reliability engineering coordination and integration of such a high number of sub-systems was a great challenge for SENER, but it was also SENER continues to consolidate their methodologies such as FTA, Cause and a great achievement, since the safety role as tutor in RAMS activities in Effect Analysis, etc. procedures and methodology developed the railway sector in general, and on In the Global Risk Analysis, one of the specifically for this project have been Barcelona’s metro line 9 particularly, most complete and extensive performed successfully implemented. where they carry out safety integration in the urban railway transportation In the images: artistic views of the Line 9: engineering on all line sub-systems. sector, all dangerous situations associated a hall, a platform and (below) the complete Reliability engineering, more commonly with each one of the line’s sub-systems scheme of the botton station. known as RAMS, has traditionally been a (ATC, energy, discipline with limited application, restricted communications, to speciﬁc production sectors: nuclear, rolling stock, aeronautic, railway and space. vertical SENER’s consolidated presence in transportation, projects considered ‘safety critical’, along tunnel, with the progressive consolidation in the ventilation market of the culture of product reliability, and protection has made safety and dependability a constant against fires, feature amongst requirements imposed by a among others) wider and wider range of clients. were analyzed. SENER has prepared a Global Risk At the same Analysis for the entire L9 of Barcelona’s time, all the metro, in accordance with the CENELEC interfaces, family of standards (EN 50126, EN between them 50128, EN 50129) and risk analysis were analyzed

MODEL EXAMPLE IN RAMS. With of the project’s lifecycle. However, the L9 Safety project as the backbone the current need for responding to of safety activities, SENER’s RAMS non-railway client requirements has team has been establishing itself seen the SENER team making great throughout the past year as a model efforts in terms of harmonization example of Technical Safety Assistance and integration, which has shaped in the Railway sector, both for public the development of new procedures, administrations such as GISA and for flexible enough to satisfy the large industrial groups, such requisites of such client diversity. as Dragados, Acciona and ACSA, Along the same lines, SENER’s RAMS among others. team is currently involved in the FAS SENER has managed to progressively Meteor project, with the difficult offer an ever-expanding range of challenge of achieving the FAS sub- tutoring services in functional safety, system complex certiﬁcation, which must accompanying clients in any phase have a safety integrity level of SIL4.

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as its entire route has a subterranean line and a cavern station. Another important aspect, not only due to its complexity, but also to how unusual the case is, is the possible need to reclaim land from the sea in the initial zone, where it is foreseeable that a section will have to be made above ground. Given that it runs under the Avenida de Canarias, the most important track on the island, whose Average Daily Intensity (IMD in its Spanish acronym) is greater than TRAIN IN GRAN CANARIA 100,000 vehicles/day, a provisional bypass must be enabled. This bypass can only be made at the detriment of the coastline. Section 2 of the railway Another important aspect is the tunnel design, not only due to geo-technical reasons line between Las Palmas de Gran and subsidence (a large part of the section runs Canaria and Maspalomas under the city of Las Palmas), but also because the line passes very close to the Insular Hospital, which would imply studying track SENER is leading the project for section 2 that authored the PTE-21. Within said plan, systems which allow reduction in noise and of the UIC gauge line deﬁned in the ‘Special SENER justiﬁed the need for implementing vibrations. Given the ever-growing concern for Territorial Plan for the Public Transportation a new method of guided transportation, traveller safety in tunnels, the design will take Corridor with Own Infrastructure and once mobility problems on the island were not only Spanish, but also European standards Mode Guided between Las Palmas de Gran diagnosed. The train improves access to areas in safety matters into account. Canaria and Maspalomas (PTE21)’, directed less favoured by territory, as well as access This project, which SENER is carrying out by Ferrocarriles de Gran Canaria. The in public transportation between socially and in joint venture with La Roche, began in January introduction of the train in Gran Canaria, a economically interdependent spaces. of 2011 and is expected to end in July of 2012. true historical milestone for the island, was The section awarded to SENER, 8.77 In the image: current environment also promoted by SENER, being the company kilometres long, is by far the most complex, at the La Laja tunnel.

THE PAJARES RAILWAY LINK venture with another Spanish engineering company, the contract for the Preliminary Engineering of the internal structures of Supplementary the Pajares tunnels: lateral evacuation and maintenance paths, drainage systems civil engineering and fire-breaks siphons, longitudinal and work for the transversal power and communication cable conduits, tunnel waterproofing works, Pajares tunnels access galleries tunnels lining, as well as the construction and urbanization development works at the tunnel portals. The New Pajares Railway Link is the main SENER is leading the joint venture for section of the future high-speed line (HSL) drafting the preliminary engineering and Leon – Asturias, linking the Northern construction projects that will define the developed an analysis of Spanish, European Spanish Plateau with the coastal Asturias safety security facilities for the tunnels of and International regulations in force, and a region. The total length of the new Rail Link the Pajares Bypass that are more than 1 km risk analysis of all the tunnels of the Pajares is 49,7 km, being the Base Tunnel of Pajares long. The projects will define the locations Link that would also enable the definition of the one that stands out for its singularity: of the ventilation, lighting and emergency all the safety and civil defense facilities. The a 25 km twin-bored tunnel beneath the signage systems, the fire detection and relevance of this study stems in the exceptional Cantabrian Cordillera that will be the second fire-fighting system and the doors in length of the tunnel and in the fact that all the longest rail tunnel in Spain and one of the the transversal galleries. They will also internal safety and civil defense facilities had longest in the world. This link has been determine the installation of the public to adapt to an already built tunnel, with the designed to support the rail traffic that address and emergency radio communication implied difficulties and determinants. currently has to cross the Pajares Mountain systems, the access control and intruder Such a singular large-scale project has Pass, and for this reason it has been detection systems, the location of the been presented in several national and designed for mixed traffic, i.e., passengers integration, equipment control and command international congresses of civil engineering and freight, even dangerous goods. management systems, and the power supply and railway safety. ADIF, Spanish Railway Infrastructure and distribution to all these systems. In the image: works on the Pajares Railway Administrator, awarded to SENER, in joint For the performance of these studies, SENER Link, North Mouth.

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which will have rest areas distributed throughout four differentiated areas for the enjoyment of SENER’s people. Besides, the new office building has four floors and maintains the same design as previous buildings 1 to 8. It is located on the street Miguel Servet, after building 7. The basement will connect directly with the new parking lot and will additionally have facility spaces, a data processing center and a safety control center. On the ground floor, a direct connection with the rest of buildings will be localized through building 7, the ENLARGEMENT OF SENER MADRID closest one to the new structure. Each one of building 9’s floors is developed around a central nucleus, New underground parking lot and wherein vertical communications, stairs and an elevator are located, as well as office building restrooms and floor storage rooms. The greater part of the space will be As of this year, SENER Madrid offices throughout the last years is the need destined to office space, with an open located in the Technological Park of to increase parking space for company office concept, wherein some offices and Madrid (PTM in its Spanish acronym), in workers, which now add up to more than meeting rooms on each one of the floors the Tres Cantos town, will have two new 800 persons, and also the need to construct buildings: an underground parking lot a new building, number 9, mainly intended and a new office building. as an office space. Work, which began in Up until today, this complex has been the spring of 2010, will ﬁnish this summer. an eight-building complex, with one main The new parking lot is located next building, building 1, a six-building group to building 8, in the rear part of the (buildings 2 through 7), connecting one buildings 2 through 7 complex. It has with the other, forming a U, and building almost 500 parking spaces distributed 8 for the Integration and Test Division. throughout four underground floors, Workers in these eight buildings have each one of them decorated with the an above-ground parking lot with a little corporate colors and drawings for each will also be equipped. On the ground more than 400 parking spaces. The space one of the four business units: Marine, floor, the building will have several the company has in La Encina building, Civil Engineering and Architecture, meeting rooms, equipped with the latest just at the PTM exit, should be added Power and Process, and Aerospace. This technology, and, at least in one of them, to these offices, where SENER also has underground parking lot has served to with a video conference system. facilities on four floors. free up surface space, where a garden From a facilities point-of-view, the The consequence of constant personnel has been designed with pedestrian exits new building will have the latest growth in SENER’s offices in Madrid from the parking lot integrated therein, light adjustment and heating and cooling systems, in order to optimize power consumption. Cold and hot water for building heating and cooling, as well as for domestic hot water, will have a geothermic source. Additionally, rain water will be re-used to water the new gardens located over the parking lot. As such, it will be a sustainable building, in line with all the constructions carried out by SENER’s Architecture Department, responsible for its design. In the images, above, on the left: the SENER Madrid complex in the PTM general view, where building 9 can already be seen. Above, on the right: an image of the works in the surface garden over the underground parking lot. Below: one of the underground ﬂoors of the parking, the one dedicated to the Civil and Architecture Business Unit.

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CSP PROJECTS IN SPAIN property of Elecnor with the participation of AMB-Umbro and Aries. It is a complex with two thermo-electric solar installations, EPC solar field construction with parabolic trough collector technology and 50 MW power per plant, and a and engineering total mirror surface area of 784,800 m2. SENER participates in the design, In the last six months, SENER has obtained is the base of solar field optic efficiency, manufacture, supply and assembly of the several contracts for the design and supply or the whole scope, in other words, the 120 loops which will make up each of of solar fields in Spain. These solar fields metallic structure plus the mirrors, absorber the Aste 1 plants. These 240 systems will will use SENERtrough technology, patented tubes, swivel joints, interconnection tubes, use 11,520 SCEs (Solar Collector Elements), by SENER, that is already being used with instrumentation, local control boxes (LOC) with an approximate length of 144 km of great success in several commercial plants and solar field control system (SCS). metallic structure. SENER’s scope in this in operation. project is focused on the metallic structure Following is a description of the new ASTE 1A & ASTE 1B of the solar field’s collectors. Work includes projects wherein SENER supplies the solar SENER is performing EPC or ‘turn key’ assembling the mirrors, which are supplied field in the ‘turn-key’ or EPC basis. Upon contract of the engineering and construction by the client. The first SCE was delivered client request, SENER may supply only works on the solar field for the Aste 1A in February for the Aste 1 plants, the the collector’s metallic structure, which and Aste 1B plants, located in Ciudad Real, commercial operation of which is foreseen before the end of 2012.

PLANTS IN CORDOBA AND BADAJOZ SENER also carries out EPC or ‘turn-key’ contract of the engineering and construction works on the solar ﬁeld for the Termosolar Soluz Guzmán, Consol-Orellana and La Africana plants. The Termosolar Soluz Guzmán plant is property of Guzmán Energía (Guzmán Energy). It is a 50 MW power installation, located in Palma del Río (Córdoba). SENER participates in the design, provisioning, inspection, logistics, supply,

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installation, assembly, start-up and With these new projects, SENER now testing of 96 complete parabolic trough has 17 solar plants throughout collector loops. national territory, as well as two other In turn, Consol-Orellana is a plant owned projects currently being constructed by Acciona Energía, with 50 MW power in the USA. and parabolic trough collector technology, In the other page, above, and over constructed in the Badajoz province, in this lines: SENERtrough system to be the Orellana La Vieja municipal area. In installed in the new plants. In the other page, this plant, SENER participates in the below: assembly of the collectors in the ASTE 1A plant. In this page, engineering, supply and assembly of metallic on the right: assembly facility in ASTE 1. structures for parabolic trough collectors for 124 loops; in other words, the same scope as SENERTROUGH TECHNOLOGY has with a 5.8 m aperture width and 12 m in the Aste 1 plants. two distinctive hallmarks: on one hand, length. The SCEs are manufactured at The recent contract to the engineering, the use of a torque tube which provides plant’s assembly warehouse, which supply and assembly for the solar ﬁeld torsional rigidity three times greater is used by Operation and Maintenance at the La Africana plant is also to be than current space structure designs, staff once field construction mentioned. This new installation, also located and, on the other, manufacture by is finished. in Palma del Río, is owned by Magtel, TSK stamping the mirror cantilever arms, It should be noted that the experience which achieves a high precision while acquired in constructing the and Ortiz. With 50 MW power, its solar ﬁeld reducing manufacture and assembly SENERtrough collector in previous is composed of 168 loops of parabolic trough costs significantly. projects (Extresol 1, Extresol 2, Valle 1 collectors with a total of 672 SCAs. In this SENERtrough collector’s dimensions and Valle 2) have allowed for improving case, SENER supplies the complete loops, are the standard for Spanish final assembly to optimum levels just as with Soluz Guzmán. plants: each system (600 m long) is of accuracy by applying advanced Termosolar Soluz Guzmán will begin formed by four collectors or SCAs calibration methods for assembly operation in the middle of 2012, while Consol- (Solar Collector Assembly) with a equipment. Future plants will benefit Orellana will do so a few months afterward, 5.8 m aperture width and 150 m length, from this experience, which will directly approximately. Each SCA is made up of generate an increase in expected before the end of 2012, the same as La 12 SCEs (Solar Collector Element), incomes from energy delivery. Africana plant.

HELSOLAR PROJECT year for each one of them. These three phases are: basic design, detail design and demonstrator construction and testing. Graphite storage system for Currently, the HELSOLAR project team is working on the basic design for the CSP plants storage system. HELSOLAR is funded by the US HELSOLAR project has the objective of This is an I+D project led by SENER, in government, through the Department of developing and validating a solid resource collaboration with the company GrafTech Energy (DOE/EERE under Award Number (graphite) thermal storage system, suitable International Ltd., and the University DE-EE0003592). for average-high temperature (650oC), of California in Berkeley, in addition to This project conﬁrms SENER’s adequate for a high thermal difference being supported by other key suppliers commitment to the development of more (~400oC) and which offers both technical for the project. efficient thermosolar power solutions, which and economical advantages as opposed to It is structured in three phases, with allow for reducing generation costs for this current systems. a foreseen duration of approximately one renewable energy.

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BAHÍA BIZKAIA GAS Bizkaia Gas (BBG) has in Zierbena in agreement with the standards and (Biscay, Spain). European codes in force. It is necessary to The current plant has two tanks with emphasize, within the peculiarities of the Amplification a nominal capacity of 150,000 m3. project, that this third tank contemplated The extension project consists of in the extension will be the first developed of the BBG installing a new tank with a nominal completely by a Spanish consortium, regasification capacity of 150,000 m3, with its wherein all the technology is local. corresponding primary and secondary The estimated duration for this terminal in pumps, the Boil-Off Gas (BOG) project is 36 months from initial work, on compression system and the auxiliary May 2011. Zierbena facilities necessary for the correct one The consortium is formed by SENER and safe operation of the plant. together with Cobra and Balzola The basic engineering of the extension companies. SENER holds the deputy SENER has been awarded, in consortium has been developed in 2006 by SENER. leadership project, and is also the company with other companies, the EPC In this new phase, SENER will carry out responsible for the tank technology. contract to carry out the amplification the engineering and the technology of the In the image: aerial view of the BBG of the regasification terminal that Bahía new tank, contributing the own design, regasification terminal in Zierbena.

CERRO DRAGÓN PROJECT Construction Management) modality, includes the development of the basic engineering and the detail engineering, the purchase of the Combined cycle power plant in main equipment, the construction, assembly and testing for the conversion of two GE units Argentina to a high efficiency combined cycle, with the incorporation of a 80 MW gas turbine, boilers Pan American Energy LCC has awarded Chubut, Argentina) to a combined cycle power and other equipment. SENER, in consortium with another company, plant. The contract, in the FEED (Front End SENER won this contract, among other the conversion of its thermoelectric power Engineering Design) + Progressive Lump Sum renowned international groups, thanks to its station of the Cerro Dragón gas and oil ﬁeld (in Turn Key–EPCM (Engineering, Procurement, & capacity to optimize the preliminary project.

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CARACOL QUINTERO PLANT IN CHILE Conceptual engineering for a waste-oil conversion plant

The Chilean Petroleum Company, TC-GRAN PROJECT COPEC Inc., has contracted SENER’s services to design the project’s conceptual engineering and budget, in a High power central tower with lump sum, for a plant to convert waste oil into additive components for molten salt receiver technology for oil-type fuel in their Caracol plant in thermosolar electrical generation Quintero (Chile). The plant basically carries out a process of separating the water and sediments contained in waste Within the continuous research work support design, construction and operation oils by centrifuging. intended to achieve cost reduction in for plants based on central tower with The waste oils with which the plant thermosolar power generation, the molten salt receiver technology. engineering team in SENER’s Solar Area is These technological developments, is fed are made up of lubricating oils carrying out the TC-GRAN project. although led by SENER, are being from motors and industrial machinery, The objective is the development of participated in by other companies as well as oil from hydraulic technology for a high power central tower specialized in different components, transmissions. The waste oil arrives thermosolar plant with salt receiver, with equipment or systems, such as in tank trucks and is stored in settling which a signiﬁcant reduction in the cost of BATZ, Cooperative Association, tanks, in which partial water and current thermosolar power generation is Herlogas, Aeronautic Piping Industry, sediment settling takes place. To expected to be achieved. Microelectronics MASER, MTS Valves and reach the quality required as a heavy This project will be one more step Technology, and also Torresol Energy. fuel, the waste oil, after being heated toward favoring the growth of central tower TC-GRAN is framed within the Basque with diathermic fluid, is centrifuged to with molten salt receiver technology, a Government’s ETORGAI 2010 projects. technology which, according to numerous separate the rest of water and sediments SENER foresees project completion studies carried out in the renewable energy toward the end of 2012. from the waste oil. The oil treated industry, will be more efficient than the in this way is then apt for use as a fuel parabolic trough technology, once it is In the image: aerial view of Gemosolar, the oil and is stored in product tanks. ﬁrst commercial plant with sufficiently developed and implemented. central tower with molten salt receiver The Caracol plant is integrated into an Within the framework of this project, technology, designed and built by SENER for existing Mobil-COPEC complex for the pioneer technologies will be developed to Torresol Energy. preparation of virgin lubricating oils. In the near future, if market conditions AN INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY. eì308)2ì7%08ì7=78)1Aì;,-',ì7,390(ì for lubricating oil bases obtained from Achieving the TC-GRAN project’s include two basic parameters unlike technical objectives require deep the one currently in existence: waste oils allows for such, COPEC research, study, design and development greater volume flow and greater intends to transform the plant into a processes for new possibilities within pressure. facility for the regeneration of each one of the areas forming the plant eì (:%2')(ì40%28ì7-190%8-32Bì83ì waste oils similar to Ecolube’s, a facility and its operation, on all levels and the maximize plant services, it is necessary ensemble in general: to have an advanced simulation tool located in Fuenlabrada (Madrid) eì308)2ì7%08ì6)')-:)6ì;-8,ì,-+,)6ì43;)6ì that allows for defining operational which was promoted, designed and than the current receiver. modes more adjusted to the limit of constructed by SENER to treat used eì30%6ìæ)0(Aì;-8,ì%(:%2')7ì6)0%8-:)ì83ì component services, and to foresee mineral oils and to obtain lubricating the development of a new heliostat, and design needs for their implementation, bases. SENER has foreseen the also for all associated aspects necessary as well as optimizing operational for powering, communications and the modes in order to take maximum possibility for this transformation control system. advantage of the system. in their design.

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FORAN V70 know the relative position inside the model, and to easily and quickly change it by selecting a new position in the map. FVIEWER, the new approach FVIEWER incorporates a new file format, V3D, generated by merging to 3D virtual review information from P3D files, which makes easier to handle big scenes. With this, FVIEWER is the new virtual reality FVIEWER, with an intuitive and modern FVIEWER is not limited to the scene module developed by SENER to replace the user interface, incorporates new scene size. In addition, the module uses some predecessor VISUAL 3D, with the aim of navigations tools and other features to techniques for improving the performance, obtaining continuous improvements in design enhance the user navigation: such as that geometry hidden behind other and manufacturing phases. FVIEWER is K_\[\j`êki\\è]fidXk`fe`j geometry is not sent to the graphics pipeline, fully integrated in the FORAN environment, displayed in the main window for object and is included in new version V70. selection and to see information about the FVIEWER gives the user the possibility model and annotations. Dfi\è]fidXk`feXYflki\]\i\eZ\j`j now available, such as the Frame System, and significant points (i.e. absolute and relative position of objects). Jpjk\dXe[lj\i[\Ôe\[Xkki`Ylk\jf] objects can be seen by selecting on them. It is possible to measure distances and angles in the scene and to include annotations kffYa\Zkj%Kf_\cgk_\eXm`^Xk`fe#k_\i\ are different clipping planes available and advanced searching tools. and incorporates better visualization 8[mXeZ\[Xc^fi`k_djXi\èZcl[\[# capabilities without performance penalty. allowing to discover collisions between KfZfeZcl[\#=M@

TECHNICAL SUPPORT CENTRE ?lccjkilZkli\#DXZ_è\ipFlkÔkkè^# Electrical design, Build strategy, Virtual reality, Advanced design and drafting and FORAN Design change and access control. It is word in Wuhan to mention that the latest version of the jpjk\d=FI8EM.'ZXejlggfik:_è\j\ University of input and output. L=:n`ccgifm`[\k_\e\Z\jjXip Technology training in FORAN to the personnel of k_\Le`m\ij`kp%N?LKn`cck\XZ_=FI8E in China to their university and master degree jkl[\ekj%K_\K\Z_e`ZXcJlggfik:\eki\ n`cc_\cgèkif[lZè^=FI8Eèkf:_è\j\ SENER has signed a co-operation Shipbuilding Industry and will assist agreement with Wuhan University of J

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the facilities of Navantia are equipped ;fZb 8C?; f]Xj\i`\jf]knf#Xccf]k_\d with FORAN, which is highly improved for the Australian Navy. with developments and enhancements @e:XikX^\eX#EXmXek`X_XjXcXi^\ thanks to the close collaboration between sheltered area for building special vessels like Navantia and SENER. jlYdXiè\jXe[dè\_lek\ij%K_\j_`gpXi[ Navantia has a very long tradition of is currently developing a series of four S-80 three centuries, which started with the class submarines for the Spanish Navy, being creation of historic military arsenals in the general design, structure, outfitting and =\iifc#:XikX^\eXXe[JXe=\ieXe[f]fi the electrical design developed in FORAN. FORAN IN NAVANTIA the building and repair of the Spanish Regarding new projects, they will develop a navy ships. It is important to highlight series of submarines for the Indian Navy. that Navantia comes from Empresa Finally, the production facilities on the Leader in Nacional Bazan, who was the first 9Xpf]:X[`qXi\k_\Y`^^\jkèk\idjf] =FI8Elj\i%K_lj#jèZ\k_\jòk`\j# area. In addition, Navantia’s docks in this military the company has been using FORAN area are among the biggest docks in the shipbuilding continuously and has been keeping a close world, with capacity to build ships up to collaboration with SENER. 500 m long, and the biggest gantry crane Navantia’s production facilities are in Spain. Navantia’s centres in this area Navantia is an international reference in split into four geographical centres: Ferrol specialize in building patrol boats, large the design and construction of military frigates for the Spanish finished two roll-on roll-off ships for Acciona experienced technical office and makes Navy, five frigates for the Norwegian KiXejd\[`k\iiXe\X#Xe[Xi\Yl`c[è^X `dgfikXekèm\jkd\ekjèI;K@n`k_k_\ EXmpXe[k_\C?;AlXe:Xicfj@#k_XknXj series of Patrol Offshore Vessels (POV) for aim of always offering the state-of-the- commissioned to the Spanish Navy last k_\EXmpf]M\e\ql\cX#Xdfe^fk_\ij%K_\ art products and services. In addition, month, of which the basic design and the basic design, hull structure, outfitting and they have established important strategic structure engineering has been developed in the electrical design has been developed in alliances with other shipyards with FORAN. Navantia is currently developing FORAN in all ships. the aim of uniting their technological, an Air Warfare Destroyer (AWD) of a Image: section of the S-80 class economic and industrial efforts. All j\i`\jf]k_i\\#Xe[XCXe[è^?\c`Zfgk\i submarine in FORAN.

BESST PROJECT Optimization of initial design in ship construction

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BRAZILIAN PROJEMAR Design of a bulk-carrier for Log-In

Projemar, a leading marine engineering company in Brazil, has designed a ship for Log-In, the mineral logistic company of ‘Vale do Rio Doce’, for the transport of bauxite k_ifl^_k_\8dXqfeI`m\i%K_\j_`gn`cc be built in the shipyard Estaleiro Ilha, S.A <@J8 #`eE`k\if`#I`f[\AXe\`if% Projemar has signed recently a contract R&D IN MARINE POWER n`k_J

FORAN SHIP biggest ship ever built by Navantia as load displacement of more than 27,500 t, well as the biggest ship of the Spanish this is the biggest ship ever made available EXmp%K_\j_`gËjZfejkilZk`fejkXik\[è to the Spanish Navy. It is also the first of Navantia 2005 and it was launched on 10 March its size with podded electrical propulsion. )''/%K_\YXj`Z[\j`êXe[k_\jkilZkli\ ?`^_cpXlkfdXk\[#k_\Zi\nn`ccZfej`jkf] commissioned engineering of the ship were developed just 247 members. the LHD Juan with SENER’s FORAN System. Other important particulars are design K_\C?;AlXe:Xicfj@_XjY\\e draught of 6.8 m, depth to fly deck of Carlos I to the designed to carry out amphibious 27.5 m, full load dead weight of 6,500 t, missions, force deployment, humanitarian maximum speed (full load) >20 kn, range at Spanish Navy assistance and can be used as an auxiliary 15 knots of 9,000 miles and accommodation XìZiX]kZXii`\i%K_\j_`g_XjXcXi^\ capacity of 1,443 people. hospital capacity, which makes it ideal for Many international navies have shown Navantia has recently delivered the deployment in disaster areas, in addition to k_\ìèk\i\jkèk_\C?;AlXe:Xicfj@% CXe[è^?\c`Zfgk\i;fZb C?; AlXe her cargo capacity. Navantia is constructing two units for :Xicfj@kfk_\JgXe`j_EXmpXk=\iifc With an overall length of 230.82 m the Australian Navy, which contract was 8ij\eXc%K_`jXdg_`Y`fljj_`g`jk_\ (flight deck 202.3 m), 32 m beam and full signed in 2007.

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operation economy. Some of the vessels were for the international market. Within the last years, the company has developed designs of LNG ships, freezer vessels, trawlers, passenger vessels JN8K?m\jj\cèZclj`m\ #\emìfed\ekXc vessels with systems of water and atmosphere ecological monitoring, vessels for collection and integrated processing of waste oily water and solid wastes and X_fjg`kXcm\jj\c%K_\J\m\iefp\;\j`ê Bureau takes part in the Russian Navy Revival programme. More than 20 pilot projects have been worked out. Besides, the Bureau’s specialists are participating in the technical assistance for the construction of Project 17 lead ship of frigate ZcXjjk_Xk`jXYflkkfY\Zfdgc\k\[%K_\j_`gj are being constructed in Mumbai (India) at the Mazagon Dock Limited Shipyard. SEVERNOYE DESIGN BUREAU Image above, on the left: border guard ship. On the rigth: supply vessel. Image below, on the left: design of a LNG New extension of the number carrier for Russia. of FORAN permanent licenses

After more than 13 years of successful K_\9li\Xl_XjZXii`\[flkdfi\k_XeX and intensive use of FORAN, Severnoye hundred designs of different purpose, ranging Design Bureau has reached an agreement from 500 t patrol boat to 26,000 t heavy with SENER for the extension and nuclear-powered cruiser, and from bulker reconfiguration of the number of to whaling boat. In general, more than 550 permanent licenses in order to fit their ships and vessels with the total displacement new project demands. of about 1.5 million tons have been built J\m\iefp\;\j`ê9li\XlAfèkJkfZb under the Bureau’s designs. All of them are :fdgXep#Xc\X[è^ZfdgXep[\j`êè^ notable for their seaworthiness, reliability and naval and commercial ships in Russia, was ]fle[\[fe))8gi`c(0+-%K_ifl^_flk THE SHIPS AND VESSELS shipyard based in Saint Petersburg; the Bureau’s life of more than 55-year, a DESIGNING PROCESS in the Bureau three frigates of Project 11356 built are most up-to-date and distinguished to the Bureau’s design that were group of highly qualified naval architects by using FORAN System. Some delivered in 2003 to India. These ships have been capable to solve the most examples are: a multipurpose frigate were equipped with advanced weapon complicated tasks in the area of designing of Project 22350 for the Russian Navy, systems; the development of the ships and vessels. carried out at the Severnaya Verf detailed design documentation carried out for the modernized Project 11356 follow-on frigates for the Indian Navy, that are under construction at the Yantar shipyard based at Kaliningrad; a supply vessel Project 22180 that was launched in 2006 at Zenit Shipyard, Uralsk city (Kazakhstan); and a border guard ship of Project 22460 designed in the Bureau that is under construction at Almaz shipyard (San Petersburg). The ship is designed for the defense of state border, natural resources of internal waters, exclusive economic zone and continental shelf, as well as for fighting terrorist groups, smuggling and piracy, for rescue operations, for environmental monitoring and cure of natural disaster effects.

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the European Union, the United States, Australia and the Arab League have requested to visit its facilities during the construction phases, as well as information on its progress. This project is also being closely followed by all players in the field of solar thermal energy, from its early stages until its fast-approaching inauguration, which will constitute a global milestone. After all, this plant is a technological revolution, acknowledged as such with several national and international awards, from the CSP Today award in the category of Thermosolar Innovation, to the 2011 European Sustainable Energy Awards, where Gemasolar was a finalist in the category of Production. This category recognizes projects that involve the generation of renewable energy or efficient energy production. In addition, its activity in the municipality of Fuentes de SOLAR INDUSTRY MILESTONE Andalucía has led to its City Hall receiving the Clean Technologies Recognition at the XVII Ones Mediterrània awards, Gemasolar is getting close to presented each year by the Mediterrània-CIE Foundation. commercial operation This renewable energy project has instantly created more than 1,000 jobs Torresol Energy, a developer and clean and safe energy to 25,000 households, during construction and will generate 50 operator of concentrated solar power eliminating more than 30,000 tons of skilled jobs in operations and maintenance once it is complete. Many of those plants, is coordinating the completion of CO2 emissions each year. This innovative commissioning of the Gemasolar plant technology significantly increases the plant’s jobs have been filled by residents from in Fuentes de Andalucía, a municipality efficiency and constitutes a starting point the municipality of Seville, who have of Seville (Spain), together with SENER. for cost-reduction strategies in the solar been closely involved in the Gemasolar This is the world’s first commercial plant thermal power sector. This is a key objective construction process and who eagerly await to use central tower receiver technology of both Torresol Energy and SENER, as its forthcoming opening. and a molten salt storage system. These they seek to make this clean energy source a Above: aerial view of the Gemasolar plant. technological innovations have been viable alternative to fossil fuels. Below, on the left: Fuentes de Andalucía developed by SENER, which is also heading Gemasolar’s innovative technology inhabitants dressed as Gemasolar during the carnival holidays of 2010. On the up the construction of this cutting-edge has attracted considerable interest from right: one of the pictures from the scholar solar thermal power plant. Once it begins government officials in Spain and abroad: competition of Gemasolar paintings, operations, Gemasolar will be able to supply representatives of the governments of organized among the local schools.

COMMUNITY RELATIONS. Energy has sought to be, whose construction is future projects the company Since the beginning of this through Gemasolar, an progressing in San is currently preparing project, Torresol Energy active player in sustainable José del Valle, Cádiz, and in to launch. has cooperated closely with development for Fuentes the City Hall of Fuentes de de Andalucía. This same Andalucía, as well as with philosophy can be applied in social actors in the local all its projects, both in the community. This has led to Valle 1 and Valle 2 plants, initiatives that promote a culture of renewable energy in the municipality, through events, lectures, school competitions, and guided tours of the plant. True to its founding commitment to protect the environment for future generations, Torresol

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RE-REFINING OF USED OIL Promotion of SENER’s Technology in Brazil

SENER has signed an agreement for an 80% share in the Brazilian company RRF Participaçoes e Administraçao de Empresas Lta, whose sole objective is the promotion of re- refining projects in Brazil with SENER technology. PROBA-3 Proba-3 is the third mission in the ESA The consumption of lubricants in Proba series of small-satellites for validating Brazil has a growth parallel to the Contract signature developments in space systems. The Proba country’s current economic development, as prime contractor series is part of ESA’s In-Orbit Technology and its environmental legislation Demonstration Program, which is supported favors re-refining as the way to manage for this mission by the General Support Technology used oils. Program (GSTP). The rise in the price of crude oil and SENER has been assigned with the Proba-3 is a complex mission that greater environmental demands are contract for Phase B of the Proba-3 requires coordination among many highlighting the benefit of recycling formation flying mission from the companies. Spain’s participation in the lube oils, as opposed to their utilization European Space Agency (ESA). By virtue mission stands out, with SENER as the as fuel. In this context, SENER is of this agreement, the engineering firm prime contractor, GMV responsible for has become the prime contractor for this internationally promoting its oil re- the formation ﬂying subsystem, and mission, with primary responsibility for refining technology, which is backed by EADS CASA Espacio developing one of its development, which will conclude with long experience and is patented in more the two mini-satellites. SENER has been verification of the system in orbit. This than 20 countries. awarded with this contract thanks to the marks the first time a Spanish company In Spain, SENER technology specialization in the development of critical will lead a complete ESA mission. has fully satisfied expectations for the systems for satellites. SENER’s activity The contract signature took place last past 10 years in the Ecolube plant is endorsed by the technological solvency March 29th at ESA’s European Space in Madrid: a 30,000 t/yr installation and proven successfully by 165 units installed on Research and Technology Center (ESTEC) an international icon for the recycling board approximately 50 satellites and space between Diego Rodríguez, Director of of lubricating oils. During these vehicles with zero faults. SENER’s Space Department, and Philippe years SENER has maintained an advisory Perol, acting ESA Director of Technology from left to right: the Director of SENER’s and technical assistance program and Quality Management. Franco Ongaro, Space Department, Diego Rodríguez, and in this installation, which has allowed for the acting ESA Director of Technology and the recently appointed Director, was also Quality Management, Philippe Perol, during the introduction and implementation present for the signature. the signature of the contract. of innovative technology.

BIOMEDICINE biomedical products. Professionals of both companies are working jointly in the Collaboration development of two innovative products, agreement in the fields of surgery robotic and diagnosis systems, that NTE-SENER between will launch to the market in the SENER and next months. Fundació Althaia With the aim of being sensitive to the sector needs and flexible to give answers to them, NTE-SENER is NTE-SENER and the Althaia Foundation developing a growing network of (Fundació Althaia) signed on March alliances and relationships with hospitals, 23rd a collaboration agreement for the universities and technology and development of innovative projects in By this agreement, Fundació Althaia research institutions. Among them, the Biomedical Devices and Technology. and NTE-SENER start a fluent signature of this agreement with The signature took place at the Althaia collaboration in the biomedicine field. Althaia stands out. Foundation’s Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, More precisely, Fundació Althaia, as an in Manresa (Barcelona), between the institution in the sanitary field, From left to right: the Managing Director of SENER in Catalonia, Gabriel Director of Fundació Althaia, Manel will give advice, test prototypes and Jovells i Cases, and the Director of SENER Alarcón, and the Managing Director of include improvements in the design in Catalonia, Gabriel Alarcón, during the Fundació Althaia, Manel Jovells. and functioning of NTE-SENER signature of the agreement.

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R&D&I CERTIFICATE SENER obtains AENOR certiﬁcate in R&D&I

SENER has obtained AENOR certification in R&D&I under Spanish standard UNE 166002:2006. During the months of October and November, AENOR conducted certification audits in SENER’s offices in Bilbao, Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia, and their case was approved on December 31st, ABU DHABI LIGHT RAIL TRAIN present for the signature with Mr. Flores: 2010. Earning this R&D&I certification from SENER, the Abu Dhabi Light Rail reinforces SENER’s commitment to Agreement with Train Project Director, Joaquín Botella; from research and innovation. Ferrocarriles TYPSA, the Transport Planning Director, José Laffond, and the Director of TYPSA de la Generalitat Valencia, Javier Machí. Valenciana The study of the Abu Dhabi Light Rail System Project was awarded to the joint On February 24th, the Counselor of venture SENER-TYPSA by the Abu Dhabi Infrastructures and Transport of the Emirate Department of Transport (DoT). autonomic government of Valencia It includes the design and development of a (Generalitat Valenciana), Mario Flores, sustainable quality transport system that can visited SENER and TYPSA offices in Abu manage the growing mobility demands of the Dhabi in order to sign the subcontract Abu Dhabi inhabitants from all the metropolitan between the Valencia railway company areas. The design will include the latest Ferrocarriles de la Generalitat Valenciana generation technologies and will be adapted to (FGV) and the SENER-TYPSA consortium. the specific characteristics of the region. By this agreement, FGV will collaborate in In the image: the Abu Dhabi Light Rail Train the development of the Abu Dhabi light rail Project Director, Joaquín Botella, and the transit study, advising in the operation and Counselor of Infrastructures and Transport maintenance of the system tasks. They were of the Generalitat Valenciana, Mario Flores.

The event, in recognition of his entire professional career and his contributions to aerospace investigation, concretely in the ﬁeld of propulsion combustion, was presided over by the Head Chancellor of the UPM, Javier Uceda, accompanied by the director of ETSIA, Miguel Ángel Gómez Tierno. Also participating were Manuel Mulero, Director of the INTA Radio Frequency and Electronic Technologies Department, Jorge Sendagorta, President of SENER, and Amable Liñán, Professor Emeritus of ETSIA, who had the pleasant task of giving academic praise to the guest of honor. Jorge Sendagorta emphasized the career of Carlos Sanchez Tarifa at SENER, where he carried out duties since 1985 as Chief Engineer in the development of the motor for the European Fighter Aircraft EF 2000. In his speech, Sendagorta defined him as “an innovative and universal engineer due to his joy in research” in a speech evoking many personal experiences paying testimony to “his open spirit: always collaborative and with a sense of humor.” Carlos Sánchez Tarifa walked up to the stage where Jorge PIONEER IN THE AEROSPACE SECTOR Sendagorta gave him a memento of the tribute: a model of the INI-11, the ﬁrst aircraft motor project constructed in Spain, and for which Tribute to Carlos Sánchez Tarifa this engineer had the task of aerodynamic design. In SENER, Carlos Sánchez Tarifa was Chief Engineer in the Last March 11th, Professor Carlos Sánchez Tarifa was honored on his development of the motor for the European Fighter Aircraft EF 90th birthday, organized by the Technical Aeronautic Engineering 2000 from 1985 until 1994. He also collaborated in the project of the School of Higher Education (ETSIA, in its Spanish acronym) of the launch tower of rockets at Kiruna (Sweden). Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM), the National Institute of In the image: the President of SENER, Jorge Sendagorta, gives a Aerospace Technique (INTA) and SENER. model of the INI-11 to Carlos Sánchez Tarifa.

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CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY Projects with the Red Cross, Food Bank and educational programs with ESA and NASA

In recent months, SENER has launched several joint initiatives as part of its activities in the area of corporate responsibility. In the spirit of the holiday season, from December 14th to 22sd SENER once again conducted its annual toy collection drive in partnership with the Red Cross. This gave SENER persons the opportunity to drop off toys in designated areas in SENER’s offices in Barcelona, Bilbao, Madrid, Seville and Valencia. Afterwards, the Red Cross coordinated distribution of the toys BEST PUBLIC WORK PROJECT OF THE YEAR to underprivileged children in each of these cities. And from February 21st through 25th, SENER worked with Honorable mention in the organizations from the Food Bank to kick off a food collection drive. This campaign, known as ‘Operation Kilo,’ asked those Agustín de Betancourt Prize who wished to participate to bring in a kilogram of food (non- perishables such as beans, pasta, rice, and canned goods) for SENER has been awarded an honorable mention in the Agustín delivery to local Food Bank organizations, which take care of de Betancourt Prize for the ‘Best Public Work Project of the distributing them to charitable institutions. For the first time, Year’, an annual award being given for the seventh time by the SENER’s international offices in Argentina, Mexico, Poland, and Spanish College of Civil Engineers. Portugal took part in this initiative alongside its offices in Spain. This honorable mention seeks to recognize the work performed All together, some 500 kg of food was collected. by SENER on the Tenerife tramline project, that covers 10 years, Finally, SENER has supported the Polytechnic University since its planification. SENER’s Head of the Civil Engineering of Madrid (UPM) in developing an educational project in Spain, Division in Madrid, Álvaro Relaño, was chosen to represent the together with the ESA and NASA space agencies. This project, company at this event. called ‘Mission X: Train Like an Astronaut,’ is an initiative directed Last year, the Madrid Branch of the College of Road, Canal and at children between the ages of 10 and 12. Seven European countries Port Engineers also decided to honor SENER, this time with the —Austria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the United ‘Best Public Work’ award for the Sol suburbal rail station project. Kingdom, and Spain— are taking part. The goal of Mission X is to expose students to the education and training that astronauts GSS BOARD OF DIRECTORS undergo, as a model for healthy lifestyles. In Spain, the UPM has been in charge of putting this initiative into practice —specifically, Dr. Marcela González-Gross’s Álvaro Azcárraga is new President workgroup in the Department of Physical Activity and Sports (part of the National Institute for Physical Education, INEF). This past April 7, SENER Consultant Álvaro Azcárraga was For now, activities are being conducted in schools in the named President of the GSS (Galileo Sistemas y Servicios) Board autonomous communities of Cantabria, Castile and Leon, Castile- of Directors. This Spanish industry consortium represents Spanish La Mancha, Extremadura and Madrid, although next year there satellite navigation companies and includes AENA, Alcatel Espacio, are plans to expand the program to the rest of Spain. EADS CASA, GMV, Hispasat, Indra and SENER. Azcárraga, appointed as SENER’s representative to the board, will perform In the photo: a group of schoolchildren from Madrid in presidential duties for the Board for one year, replacing José María the ESAC Centre of the European Space Agency, part of the activities for the Mission X project. Martí Fluxá, CEO of Indra Espacio, in that position. Álvaro Azcárraga is a member of the Board of Directors of Eurospace, the association of the European Space Industry, and a member of the Advisory Board of the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI), as well as a member of the International Academy of Astronautics. Throughout his professional career, he has been President of the International Astronautical Federation, Spain’s Delegate to ESA’s Long-Term Space Policy Committee, and Board Member of Arianespace. He has been honored with the Cross of Aeronautical Merit and the CEAS (European Confederation of Aerospace Societies) medal for excellence in engineering, and has also received the Allan D. Emil Memorial Award in Astronautics for International Cooperation in Space.

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FORAN AWARDED ONES MEDITERRÀNIA AWARD The ‘Makila of Fuentes de Honor 2010’ award Andalucía receives from the Chamber the Clean of Commerce, Technologies Industry, Recognition and Navigation The Fuentes de Andalucía City Hall has of Bilbao received the Clean Technologies Recog- nition in the XVII edition of the Ones The Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mediterrània awards, given out each year and Navigation of Bilbao, at the by the foundation Mediterrània-CIE. Corporation’s plenary session, has decided to grant SENER the ‘Makila of Awarding this XVII Ones Honor – Ohorezko Makila 2010’ award for Mediterrània Award means a recognition its contributions to the missions pursued ceremony held on November 29th in the of the City Hall’s work toward promoting by the Chamber. Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, at the clean energies and respecting the More specifically, the Chamber has 8th Annual Meeting of the Chamber of environment with many initiatives, such acknowledged SENER’s innovative Commerce, Industry, and Navigation. as clean water, green zones, nurseries work in the marine area through the The event featured the presence of the for training, education and investment, development of its CAD/CAE/CAM Lehendakari (President) of the Basque sustainable social gardens, etc. software for the design and construction Government, Patxi López, as well as Amongst all of these initiatives, of ships and marine and ocean artifacts, the President of the Biscay Council, Gemasolar stands out: located in Fuentes the FORAN System. The Chamber feels José Luis Bilbao, and representatives de Andalucía, it is the first commercial that this advanced system has constituted from local businesses and institutions. scale solar plant constructed in the an improvement in the productivity of Besides SENER, other companies from world with central tower technology shipyards and building companies in Biscay were also distinguished with the and a heliostat field with molten salt Biscay, since its tools make it possible ‘Makila of Honor 2010’ title, such as the storage system, technology which allows to reduce time and costs in an Ormazabal Group and Ercilla Hoteles, as for increasing plant efficiency. Once in environment as complex and global as the well as the Traders Association of the operation, Gemasolar will supply clean marine sector. Ribera Market. and safe energy to 25,000 homes and

The Managing Director of SENER, In the picture: Jorge Unda during the will reduce CO2 emissions by more than Jorge Unda, picked up the award at the ceremony of the ‘Makila de Honor’ awards. 30,000 tons per year.

APPOINTMENTS the Integration who until now has Business Unit. In and Test Divisions, served as Director turn, this position RICARDO MARTÍN, part of the Bilbao of the Aeronautics will be taken on who until now and Barcelona and Vehicles by FRANCESC has acted as Divisions, as well MASSABÉ, who General Manager as NTE-SENER, a also worked in of Aerospace company within the the Mechanical and Systems SENER Group. From Section of SENER Engineering, as this point forward, Barcelona. well as Director of Ricardo Martín has been Head of until now. After 43 the Aerospace and will be responsible the Mechanical years of service at Integration and Test for strengthening Section of SENER SENER, Eduardo Divisions, will now strategic activities Barcelona; as of Serrano will act as in the area of Department. José now, Gurrea will a Consultant from internationalization Rodríguez leaves assume the duties this point forward. and will focus all this Department of managing In turn, José Olaso, his efforts on this having achieved the Aeronautics who until now has Directorate General, remarkable results and Vehicles been the Project given the enormous for the area and Department, Director for the growth that it has having marked which forms part JOSÉ OLASO is Power and Process experienced in the out the trajectory of the Aerospace the new General Strategic Business last three years. for the projects Director of Unit, including the be dedicated to the included in the 2011- Procurement and Gemasolar project, Directorate General He will be 2013 Strategic Plan. Construction, will take on this new of Aerospace substituted in his following the position in addition and Systems role as Director of Replacing José recent retirement to his current Engineering the Aerospace and Rodríguez in his of EDUARDO responsibilities (DGITD), which Integration and former position will SERRANO, who had as Director of includes both the Test Divisions by be ÍÑIGO GURREA, held the position the Gemasolar Aerospace and JOSÉ RODRIGUEZ, who up until now of General Director project, until that

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METEOR PROGRAM Deliver of the ﬁrst unit to MBDA

On March 30th, SENER delivered the ﬁrst Fin Actuation System (FAS) unit for the air-to-air missil Meteor to MBDA, a leading European group in missiles and missile systems. SENER participates in the multinational program for the air-to-air Meteor missile as its design authority of the FAS Subsystem and is responsible for completing the development, performing the qualiﬁcation and producing all the series units. AWARD FOR INNOVATION Luis Bilbao, during the ceremony held on In the caption: FAS unit ready to be delivered Wednesday December 1st, in the Culture Hall to the client. Hemendik award of the municipality of Sopelana (Biscay). granted by the Deia The Hemendik awards granted by Deia, this year into their third edition, are divided newspaper into different categories such as Economy, Tourism, Culture, Social action and Sports, SENER has won the Hemendik award in and highlight the records of different the Innovation category, called ‘Berrikuntza companies and institutions in the seven Saria’, granted every year by the Deia newspaper to different companies and regions of Biscay. institutions from Biscay. The award comes Petronor, Concesionarios Automóviles in recognition of its record since it was Galindo and Puente de Vizcaya are some of founded in Bilbao in 1956, driven by the the companies and institutions previously search for efficient and novel technological honored by these awards. solutions. The President of SENER, Jorge In the picture: Jorge Sendagorta picks up Sendagorta, picked up the award from the Hemendik award to Innovation from José the President of the Biscay Council, José Luis Bilbao. project commences ambitious strategic Morocco, Tunisia, San Francisco (USA) commercial plan in Algeria. Egypt, and Libya. office. Her duties operation. include capitalizing In turn, ANES SASSI The leadership on the knowledge MANEL SALA is returning to the structure of the of the Torresol has been named Communications Instrumentation Energy brand in the the new Country and Software Section of U.S., developing a Manager for SENER Section in the Argentina portfolio of short, in Algeria, taking Barcelona, Division (DAR) is medium, and long- on responsibility facing renewed forerunner in experiencing the GARCÍA has been term projects, and for both the SENER’s activity named to head up helping Torresol commercial in Algeria, will the Instrumentation Energy stand activities that coordinate the Section. With 36 out on the North SENER conducts work of the Civil years of experience, American market in this country, as Engineering and particularly in the Oil well as for SENER’s Architecture & Gas sector, García office in Algiers. Strategic has carried out a As new Country Business Unit variety of projects Manager, his in the Southern in the Power sector primary mission will professional Mediterranean following changes: during his tenure be to lead SENER’s challenges on Region, which SIMÓN RUBÍN, with SENER. the horizon, after includes countries founder of this having been the such as Algeria Section in the DAR, Torresol Energy, a pioneering manager - where the will take on the member company as a company that of SENER’s office importance of work position of Project of the SENER deals not just with in Algeria and being carried out Director directly Group, has added energy, but also having led it for has called for the under the division’s FELICIA BELLOWS with the operation several years. appointment of a management. In as Executive and maintenance Likewise, RAMÓN specific Country his place, JUAN Vice-President of of solar thermal VILARDELL, a Manager - as in RODOLFO Development at its plants.

SENER noticias 41/SPRING 2011 33 Technology

THERMOSOLAR PLANTS Single-Tank System for Thermal Storage The reduction of investment costs in concentrated solar power plants is fundamental to create a competitive industry. Moreover, as the share of renewable energy in electricity generation increases, it is becoming more and more important to have systems available that facilitate the dispatchability of these plants. A thermal storage system that is efficient, reliable, and economically competitive contributes signiﬁcantly to meeting these two objectives.

he development of a single-tank thermal the absence of insolation; a fundamental difference storage system in concentrated solar compared to plants that do not use this system T power (CSP) plants stands out in the and the reason why the power block operates in new technologies research carried out by SENER’s more stable and constant conditions. The storage Solar Area. This system would be an alternative system also enables the annual capacity factor to the current molten salt storage system, that – the effective hours during which the plant can SENER installs in the majority of its CSP projects, produce electricity – to increase, and to select the consisting of two tanks: one to store cold salts, and most appropriate times to feed power into the grid, the other to store hot salts. In this way, SENER according to tariff or demand. expects to gain a significant reduction in the SENER has been a pioneer company in the investment required for this type of technology, application of molten salt thermal storage systems in Below: aerial view of the dual- thus facilitating the development of the thermosolar commercial plants, many of which are in commercial tank thermal electricity generation market. operation. Andasol 1, a project which storage system storage system was developed by SENER, was the ﬁrst plant to in the Andasol Thermal Storage System incorporate a thermal storage system in its design. 1 thermosolar In all projects developed by SENER for CSP plants plant, with SENER With a storage system, thermosolar electric technology. generation plants can keep producing electricity in with a storage system to date, the company has installed a dual-tank system to contain the molten salts, which are used to store the thermal energy. One of the tanks is used to store salts in their ‘cold’ state (at around 290°C), and the other is used to store salts in their ‘hot’ state (at around 390°C). Only half the tank’s capacity is used at any given time: when no energy is stored, the ‘cold’ tank is full, and the ‘hot’ tank is empty; when the stored energy is at maximum, the ‘cold’ tank is empty, and the ‘hot’ tank is full.

The Single-Tank System The dual-tank system functions correctly and has been proved in commercial operation in various plants, demonstrating a high level of operational reliability. Even so, it is necessary to keep moving forward in the search for solutions that allow the cost of power generation to be reduced. With this in mind, and thanks to the experience

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acquired in the design, construction and operation of tanks, and it is permanently full. In this system, Above: dual-tank the dual-tank system, SENER is working all of the pumps have short shafts. These storage system of Gemasolar’s central on a single-tank storage system with an insulation pumps are more common in the marketplace and, tower plant, with barrier. The objective is to design, construct, therefore, they are also less expensive. SENER technology. and test a reduced-scale prototype in the Valle 2 With the new system comes not only the The company is also commercial plant, which SENER is constructing for expectation of a significant reduction in storage responsible of the Torresol Energy in Cádiz, Spain. This innovative costs, but also of an increase in production, design, construction and operation of the system uses just one tank to contain salts in both as thermal losses are reduced by having just one system. their cold and hot states, separated by an insulation tank instead of two. Below: simpliﬁed barrier that naturally moves up and down according Once this prototype is validated, SENER schematic of the to the quantity of salts in each state. expects to start applying it on a commercial scale. single-tank system with insulation In the single-tank system, the single tank has a This new solution conﬁrms SENER’s position as barrier. Source: capacity similar to that of one of the dual-system the technological leader in the thermosolar market. Patent application document WO 2010/000892. TECHNOLOGY LEADER. the case of dual-tank storage become a reality in the global This demonstration system, systems, the single-tank project construction of the next CSP together with other alternative is another innovation that can projects. equipment on which SENER is working, will mean a real reduction in the investment costs for solar plants that involve a storage system. In this way, this type of efficient and dispatchable thermal power plants will improve their economic competitiveness. As has already happened in

SENER noticias 41/SPRING 2011 35 In Brief

of Extremadura, Antonio Hernández, and the Mayor of IDEX 2011 Torre de Miguel Sesmero, José SENER has taken part from Navarrete. February 20th to 24th in Abu Also inaugurated, on February Dhabi in the International 22nd, was the SAMCA 2 Defense and Security Exhibition thermosolar plant, known as ‘La IDEX 2011, the largest defense Dehesa,’ belonging to SAMCA and security event in the Middle Renovables in the municipality East and North African region. of La Garrovilla, Badajoz. In this The engineering and technology 50 MWe plant with parabolic group has been showing its trough technology and a capacities as a design authority molten-salt thermal storage in missiles such as Meteor, system, SENER was in charge IRIS-T and NSM, as major of the engineering work for systems integrator in the Inauguration of solar plants the central island, including its Power Block, storage system On February 16th, the patented by the company. and HTF collector system. thermosolar plant Extresol Present at the plant’s SAMCA 2 is now the sixth plant 2 located in Torre de inauguration ceremony were in commercial operation of the Miguel Sesmero (Badajoz, the Industry, Energy and 19 thermosolar plants in which Extremadura) was inaugurated. Environment Counselor for SENER is involved. Guillermo Extresol 2 is the second in a the regional government Fernández Vara, President of group of three 50 MWe solar of Extremadura, José Luis the regional government of plants to be inaugurated with Navarro, the Subdelegate of Extremadura, was present at parabolic trough technology the Spanish government in the inauguration. that SENER is executing in joint Extremadura, Yolanda García, In the caption, the political venture with Cobra for ACS. the Managing Director for representatives performing Sagitario program and in the All of the plants incorporate Energy and Mining Policy the symbolic ‘start up’ of the Taurus KEPD 350 acquisition the SENERtrough system, for the regional government Extresol 2 plant. program for the Spanish Air Force F-18, as a main engineering company in space structural assembly processes JEC projects such as the SEOSAT and part production. Some satellite, and as a technology

COMPOSITES examples of these projects are developer in biomedical 2011 the wing stringer production systems, with the BIOSENer and positioning cell for the A350 non-intrusive real-time JEC Composites, the biggest XWB, the design and production physiological status monitoring European exhibition of the of HTP assembly stations 70 system as star product. composite sector, has taken and 71 for the A350 XWB or place between March 29th the application of composite st and 31 in Paris. SENER The composite processing materials in the automotive SINAVAL 2011 has been present with a technologies Area of SENER industry. booth in the Spanish pavilion, carries out engineering It can be pointed out that Spain SENER was present at where it has shown its and turn-key supply of has been the honored country in the SINAVAL marine capabilities in composite manufacturing cells as well as this edition, as a leading country conference, which was held processing technologies research on process engineering in R&D in composites. in Bilbao from April 12th and their application in the and product development. In In the picture, SENER engineers to 14th. At this pioneering aeronautics, railway and the turn-key project area SENER Pablo Gayá and Jaime Saenz in milestone event for the automotive industries. specializes on automation of JEC Composites. Spanish marine market, the Company introduced the in Portugal, for instance the new version of FORAN V70, launched in November of UITP2011 implantation and expansion 2010, which represents a th th of the Oporto metro; and in From April 10 to 13 , SENER signiﬁcant qualitative leap Colombia, such as the ﬁrst line has taken part at the UITP forward as far as CAD/CAM of the Bogota metro. Mobility and City Transport systems for the marine This is third event in the United Exhibition in Dubai. From its sector are concerned. In this Arab Emirates (UAE) with booth, SENER has shown some edition of the conference, SENER’s participation in the last of its projects in this sector, SENER invited the company months. This growing presence such as the Barcelona metro PTC to jointly present their in UAE shows the commercial line 9, recent contracts in the integrated FORAN-PLM links that SENER has with the United Arab Emirates, such as Windchill solution along with the Abu Dhabi Light Rail Transit country, especially with the them at SENER’s stand. System study; and projects Emirate of Abu Dhabi.

36 SENER noticias 41 SPRING 2011 In Brief

Enerscapes at Gemasolar

On March 11th, a joint delegation from the Andalusian regional government and WFES 2011 ENERSCAPES visited the Gemasolar plant, From January 17th to 20th, SENER accompanied by the and Torresol Energy participated Technical Director of Torresol in the World Future Energy Energy O&M, Santiago Arias. Summit, the largest renewable ENERSCAPES is a project energy event in the world, in of the European Union Abu Dhabi. This edition of WFES that seeks to foster the reconfirmed both companies’ use and implementation simple game, they had to find leadership in concentrated solar of renewable energies, and SENER at creative solutions to design power technology. The two which is part of the Interreg the Bilbao and integrate an infrastructure companies’ shared stand was IV B MED Transnational into an urban environment. visited by numerous visitors. In Cooperation program, Science Participants had to choose addition, SENER’s Managing covering the northern Week a project that they then Director, Jorge Unda, was a Mediterranean coast. The EU had to construct following speaker in the session ‘New delegation’s interest in seeing From November 11th to 14th determined techniques while Innovations in Solar Technology.’ Gemasolar’s innovative the tenth Science Week, taking environmental and Within the framework of the technology firsthand is just organized by the Basque economic factors summit, an institutional and one more display of the Country University, was held into account to ensure a business mission of the Basque global relevance this project in La Alhóndiga, in Bilbao, more rational and sustainable Country to the UAE took place, has acquired, which has under the motto ‘Forbidden use of the environment. led by the President of the already piqued interest from not to touch’. Therefore, the company regional government, Patxi the governments of Australia SENER took place in this approached, another year, López, who also visited the stand and the U.S., as well as from event with a booth that invited the engineering activity to the of SENER and Torresol Energy, as the authorities of the Arab Science Week visitors to Bilbao students, main shown in the picture. League. become engineers. Playing a visitors of this event. Gemasolar, a model of sustainable energy development in Australia

The non-governmental developed a model of the plant. organization Beyond Zero The ecologist organization, Emissions, located in Australia, which was visiting the plant continues to show a special in 2009, has recommended interest in the Gemasolar Gemasolar’s technology to plant’s technology. Amongst the Australian government on the latest initiatives, the several occasions for making organization has independently manageable a renewable source such as solar energy; in the organization’s latest report, the of the missile built by SENER, ‘Zero Carbon Australia Stationary MBDA visit and also to witness several Energy Plan’, wherein the A team from MBDA, a leading development tests. opinion of expert groups from European group in missiles and SENER and MBDA have a companies and institutions in the missile systems, visited the standing agreement to have renewable energy industry, has facilities of SENER Madrid on SENER participate in the also participated the Technical January 13th, in the town of Tres multinational program for the Director of Torresol Energy O&M, Cantos. air-to-air Meteor missile as Santiago Arias. Besides, since The team visited the its design authority and as the 2008 Torresol Energy initiatives Integration and Test Centre, FASS supplier for MBDA. have been covered on the news, where the plant that produces In the picture, the MBDA team in reports and in interviews Meteor missile is located. posed with SENER engineers on Beyond Zero Emission’s There they were able to see in the Integration and Test channels, from their webpage to the ﬁrst pre-production unit Centre. their radio of national scope.

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