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Ricardo Silva

CTO

Greendur

Spain

Potential applicant for a funded RTDI project

CTO of Greendur 20+ year of R+D experience across Europe - Responsible for funding acquisition - Responsible for research coordination - Responsible for technology development - Responsible for commercial project technology

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Greendur

Greendur

Start-Up

Spain

GREENDUR has developed a modular latent heat thermal energy storage (TES) system, the GreenBattery, a hot thermal battery for industrial process heat decarbonisation. Based on phase change material (PCM) technology, the GreenBattery stores 2 MWh of thermal energy and can release 500 kWt to deliver clean industrial heat up to 350°C on demand. GreenBattery deployments and demonstrations: 🏗️ Paint curing oven for Comansa crane manufacturer (160 kWh pilot, 2023) 🔋 2 MWh commercial unit: design complete, build targeted Q4 2026 📈 LOIs from Comansa, ROVALMA, S.A., VIRTO Group & Gonvarri Industries CORPORATE HISTORY 2020 -- GREENDUR founded by Jesús Castillo Yera in Pamplona, Spain 2021 -- @CDTI\_innovacion NEOTEC grant and Enisa | Empresa Nacional de Innovación participatory loan secured 2021 -- Sodena | Desarrollo de Navarra - Nafarroako garapena regional support 2021 -- Joins Centro Europeo de Empresas e Innovación de Navarra (Centre Europeo de Empresas e Innovacion), Pamplona 2022 -- GreenBattery patent filed (Modular Thermal Energy Storage System) 2023 -- 160 kWh/20 kW prototype. Comansa paint-curing oven; >90% RTE 2023 -- Solar Impulse Foundation Efficient Solution label awarded 2024 -- EIC - European Innovation Council SynergistEIC acceleration prog 2024 -- LOIs signed from four industrial clients 2026 -- Relocates to new HQ at Poligono Industrial de Areta, Huarte, Navarra
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About me

Chief Technology Officer - Scientist at Greendur - Energy Storage

Energy Storage - Phase Change Materials,

Strong solid foundation in Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, Mass Transfer, Species Transfer, Porous Media, Phase Change, Multiphase, Granular Physics, Sorption, Thermochemical, Chemistry

Techniques: Multiphysics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Energy Modelling, Economic Modeling, Screening Analysis, Monte-Carlo, Uncertainty Analysis, Global Sensitivity Analysis, Model Order Reduction, Metamodeling, Global Optimization.

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I am interested in the following CETPartnership thematic areas:

provide technological cleaner solutions for storage technologiesdevelop and demonstrate technical solutions for integrated industrial energy systems

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