18 November 2023

12:20 – 13:05

Amphithéâtre Faure

Liqun Feng

Originally from Tianjin (China). Liqun Feng became interested in the power of solar radiation at an early age. He built a small, homemade solar cooker to cook rice. In 1977, he entered Dalian University of Technology (China), where he studied mechanical engineering. In 1982, he came to France to pursue his post-graduate studies at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan and the Université Paris VI. He defended his doctoral thesis in June 1987. He worked at Alstom, then at Cetim. In 2005, he became R&D Director at Dirickx. In 2010, he founded Fengtech, whose aim is to innovate solar thermal systems, especially in regions with changing and cloudy climates. Fengtech has registered 6 patents. Since October 2019, together with 8 partners from 5 North-West European countries, Fengtech has been participating in a European project – ICARE4FARMS with Fengtech’s next-generation solar thermal technology.

Conference: How efficient can a solar thermal system be in North-Western Europe?

The European ICARE4FARMS project aims to stimulate the use of solar thermal energy on agricultural farms in North-Western Europe, in order to help reduce CO2 emissions and increase the share of renewable energies. The Fengtech system is a solar hot water production system patented by Fengtech. It is the technology selected by the European ICARE4FARMS project as next-generation solar thermal energy. The Fengtech system is a hybrid system that stores heat in the solar tanks and in the ground. It has its own system for managing overheating in summer and freezing in winter. We will present the ICARE4FARMS project and the results of one of the four pilot sites, which has been operational for two years.