Projects in energy optimization and renewable energies

Basic monitoring of indoor environmental quality in different schools across Catalonia

Workshops on strategies to improve indoor environmental quality in secondary schools

Guide that outlines energy-saving strategies by setting standards of comfort and health inside buildings.

AIGUASOL staff collaborated with UPC Technical University of Catalonia in developing a prototype of fixed bed gasification technology for biomass/waste/RDF for cogeneration and trigeneration at micro and small scale (below 50kWe).

AIGUASOL staff collaborated with UPC in conducting field studies, preparing academic papers, delivering training sessions and dissemination events to analyse and discuss the prospects of small-scale biomass systems, related energy services and inclusive business models addressed at rural markets in Sub Saharan Africa.

Promoting the market uptake of bioenergy in six European model regions, by supporting SME R&D capacities, ad-hoc feasibility analysis tools and business plans development.

AIGUASOL and IREC have collaborated in a study for the KIC-Innoenergy, which analyzes the best business-management models that allow large-scale rehabilitation of buildings

NanoSen-AQM faces the challenge of monitoring ambient air pollution and informing the public of air quality in real time in a sustainable manner. The objective of the project is to develop an electronic system based on low cost and low consumption sensors, validating the system in different locations of Spain and Portugal.

HOUSEFUL proposes an innovative paradigm shift towards a circular economy for the housing sector. The main goal is to develop and demonstrate an integrated systemic service (HOUSEFUL Service) composed of 11 circular solutions co-created by stakeholders in current housing value chain.

The main goal is to design, develop, demonstrate and exploit a new modular, plug-n-play concept/product for ADBE(Adaptable/Dynamic Building Envelopes) able to provide high energy use reductions and high energy harvesting from RES (Renewable Energy Sources) both at the single-building and the district scale while requiring medium-to-low installation costs and almost-zero operational costs.

The high cost of diesel to heat up portions of the processes in the copper industry and the solar radiation available in most copper mining areas led AIGUASOL to develop a new large-scale solar thermal collector that is more efficient and cheaper than conventional solar collectors.

AIGUASOL is collaborating in the definition and design of new facilities, which are scheduled to begin construction in 2017.

The project for self-sufficient island in the centre of town of Olot, in Girona, raised satisfying the thermal needs of five services buildings in the market area through two district heating and cooling networks fed by 100% renewable, local energy sources.

The challenges of the production process of asphalt are summarized in four categories: to provide the raw material with lower moisture content, to reduce energy losses in the processes, to restore energy losses in the processes, and to sources of cheaper and more environmentally friendly energy.

New technologies for utilization of heat recovery in large industrial systems, considering the whole energy cycle from heat production to transformation, delivery and end use.

eeBox is an online platform for collecting, utilizing and disseminating the information generated in different facilities as well as an open-software application or monitoring and energy management

The installation designed by AIGUASOL aims to generate on-site renewable energy for a large part of the energy consumed in the castle.

AIGUASOL is in charge of the design and demonstration of this novel solution, which opens a new concept on the solar collector manufacturing and implementation technology.

Using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tools to assist in building design and adress comfort issues and guarantee health requirements.

AIGUASOL used TRNSYS to model the design of the tent and conducted a detailed analysis of its behavior under different operating circumstances (temperature of air injected into the tent) and external weather conditions.

Charmex International built a 6,000m2 building in Getafe (Madrid) which will hold its own offices as well as offer office space for rent. The energy goal is to obtain a LEED GOLD certification.

Transforming cities for a smart, sustainable Europe.

Beyond the design of the implementation of various technological solutions, the executive project of the district network, based on this renewable generation, heat delivery to the five buildings of the Arteaga Foundation was held.

The Government approved St. Helena Sustainable Development Plan (SDP) 2012/13 - 2014/15, which establishes the objective of environmental impact minimization, proposes to increase the share of renewable energy generation.

AIGUASOL served as an energy consultant for the project and was responsible for the LEED credits related to the energy consumed by the building, with tasks including modeling, optimization and management of the final documentation.

The Department of Environment of the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa (DFG) manages, among others, energy rehabilitation of housing stock of the entity, as well as providing advice and services to more than 80 municipalities placed in the province.

The PITAGORAS project focuses on the efficient integration of city districts with industrial parks through smart thermal grids.

Review and analysis of energy efficiency and potential for savings in a group of buildings of the Costanera Center, a facility designed to include parking, a shopping center, four office buildings and a convention center.

The object of the TOBEEM project is to determine the reasonable economic and energy limits that can be placed on energy-efficient office buildings in Madrid and to establish reliable design criteria for achieving those limits.

Analysis and optimization of the energetic and economic performance of different technical solutions for the operational improvement of different greenhouses located in Basque Country and La Rioja.