HYDROSOL (short for Solar hydrogen via water splitting in advanced monolithic reactors for future solar power plants) is series of European Union funded projects for the promotion of renewable energy. Aim of the project is the production of hydrogen using concentrating solar power with a specific thermochemical cycle.
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The Fifth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP5) project HYDROSOL started in December 2002 with a budget of €2.6 million. A pilot-scale solar reactor was designed, built and operated at the DLR solar furnace facility in Cologne (Germany), continuously producing "solar hydrogen". The FP6 HYDROSOL II a pilot reactor in the 100 kWth scale for solar thermochemical hydrogen production at the Plataforma Solar de Almería in Spain started in November 2005[1] and is in operation since 2008.[2] The FP7 HYDROSOL-3D project started on January 1, 2010 and will run until January 1, 2013.[3] The Hydrosol series projects were conceived and coordinated by the Aerosol and Particle Technology Laboratory of Centre for Research and Technology-Hellas. In 2006, the Hydrosol project was awarded by the European Commission with the Descartes Prize for Collaborative Scientific Research.