Train the Trainers Workshop at Harare Institute of Technology

Submitted by Samson Mhlanga and Blessed Sarema
Published 4 years, 3 months ago

The National University of Science and Technology (NUST), country partner in the SOLTRAIN 4 project in cooperation with AEE Intec, continued to support solar thermal uptake by conducting a Train-the-Trainer workshop at the Harare Institute of Technology in early February.

Among those trained were technicians, installers and artisans from the following organisations:

  • Sunnex
  • Impact Solar
  • Chinhoyi University of Technology (CUT),
  • Harare Institute of Technology (HIT)
  • Nhjizana investment
  • Lower Nooks Enterprises P/L
  • Standards Association of Zimbabwe (SAZ)
  • Hanseal Plumbering
  • University of Zimbabwe (UZ)
  • Ministry of Energy and Power Development
  • Msasa Industrial Training Centre

There were three female and thirteen male participants, comprising a total of sixteen altogether. The facilitators for the training were Rudi Moschoeck (AEE Intec, Austria), Samson Mhlanga (NUST) and Blessed Sarema (NUST).

The training session focused on the following topics:

  • Solar Heat Worldwide, an overview of the worldwide developments and applications
  • The solar resource
  • An overview of solar thermal collectors,
  • Solar thermal system designs for pumped and thermosyphon to water systems,
  • Performance of solar collectors
  • Collector field hydraulics
  • Flow conditions and pressure drop in parallel and serial collector connections,
  • Pumped solar thermal systems
  • System configuration
  • Components
  • Monitoring and energy savings based on systems monitored in SOLTRAIN 3
  • Simulation software
  • An introduction into Retscreen and TSOL

The training also included a 'how-to' on preparing an application for demonstration systems which are financially supported up to 50% by the SOLTRAIN project in two flagship districts within a 50km radius of Harare and Bulawayo, as well as a session where local companies could showcase their installations.

The training was concluded with a visit to the solar pumped system at the Harare Institute of Technology, and a visit to the solar trailer demonstrating a thermosyphon and pumped system at the University of Zimbabwe.

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