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Sylvain Rodat and Richard Thonig
Solar energy is not only the most abundant energy on earth but it is also renewable. The use of this energy is expanding very rapidly mainly through photovoltaic technology. However, electricity storage remains a bottleneck in tackling solar resource var...
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Yi?an Wang, Zhe Wu and Dong Ni
Optimizing the heliostat field aiming strategy is crucial for maximizing thermal power production in solar power tower (SPT) plants while adhering to operational constraints. Although existing approaches can yield highly optimal solutions, their consider...
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Christos Sammoutos, Angeliki Kitsopoulou, Panagiotis Lykas, Evangelos Bellos and Christos Tzivanidis
The exploitation of solar irradiation is a critical weapon for facing the energy crisis and critical environmental problems. One of the most emerging solar technologies is the use of solar towers (or central receiver systems) coupled with high-performanc...
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María José Montes, Rafael Guedez, David D?Souza and José Ignacio Linares
This work is intended as a guide for the design of solar thermal tower plants based on a microchannel radial receiver refrigerated by a pressurised gas, and coupled to a supercritical CO2 power cycle. The work demonstrates the influence of the receiver c...
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Nader S. Saleh, Shaker Alaqel, Eldwin Djajadiwinata, Rageh S. Saeed, Zeyad Al-Suhaibani, Obida Zeitoun, Hany Al-Ansary, Abdulelah Alswaiyd, Abdelrahman El-Leathy, Syed Danish, Sheldon Jeter, Ashley Byman, Neville Jordison and David Moon
This paper presents a thermal performance evaluation of a novel particle-to-air heat exchanger. The heat exchanger has a patented design with a shell-and-tube configuration. Solid particles move as a dense packed-bed inside the vertical tubes of the heat...
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Fabio Maria Aprà, Sander Smit, Raymond Sterling and Tatiana Loureiro
For years, concentrated solar power (CSP) has been considered an emerging technology that could disrupt the energy production sector. The possibility to store the electricity generated during the sunny operating hours in the form of heat enhances energy ...
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Luís Guerra Rosa, José Carlos Garcia Pereira, Kaveh Rahmani, Guilherme De Almeida and Luís F. Santos
This work compares the performance of optical lenses made of silica glass or borosilicate glass (BK-7) when submitted to high-flux radiation emitted by a xenon arc lamp or provided by a high-concentration solar tower. Each irradiation test lasted for 60 ...
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Jian Yan, Youduo Peng and Duzhong Nie
The mirror unit installation error of the solar parabolic dish concentrator can adversely affect its optical performance causing optical intercept losses and hot spots on the absorber surface, which in turn affect safety. Thus, minimizing mirror installa...
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In recent years, the Chinese government has vigorously promoted the development of concentrating solar power (CSP) technology. For the commercialization of CSP technology, economically competitive costs of electricity generation is one of the major obsta...
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Jesús Armando Aguilar-Jiménez, Nicolás Velázquez, Ricardo López-Zavala, Luis A. González-Uribe, Ricardo Beltrán and Luis Hernández-Callejo
In this work, we present an absorption cooling system with 35 kW capacity driven by solar thermal energy, installed in the school of Puertecitos, Mexico, an off-grid community with a high level of social marginalization. The cooling system provides therm...
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