SEVILLE, Spain, Feb. 13 Spain's Abengoa will give an award to the best doctoral thesis conducted at the University of Seville on solar energy and sustainable development.The industrial group is offering nearly $3,900 as a prize for a study that has direct relevance to: solar resource evaluation, use of solar radiation for industrial process heat production and for thermosolar or photovoltaic electricity generation, solar radiation collection, concentration and absorption technologies, solar energy storage systems based in thermal, thermo-chemical, electro-chemical or mechanical processes, use of solar energy for desalination, de-tox, and water purification processes, and for hydrogen production.Deadline for applications is March 30.Copyright 2007 by UPI
