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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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Ibrahim Tursunovic and Davide Papurello
The energy sector is the main source of greenhouse gases, so it has the highest potential for improvement. The improvements can be achieved by generating energy from renewable sources. It is necessary to combine production from renewable sources with sto...
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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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Lorenzo Tieghi, Giovanni Delibra, Johan van der Spuy and Alessandro Corsini
Air-cooled condensers (ACCs) are commonly found in power plants working with concentrated solar power or in steam power plants operated in regions with limited water availability. In ACCs, the flow of air is driven toward the heat exchangers by axial fan...
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Amanda Leong, Steven Derek Rountree and Jinsuo Zhang
This research article explores the potential of optical fibers as sensors, highlighting their ability to measure various parameters such as temperature, pressure, stress, and radiation dose. The study focuses on investigating the material compatibility o...
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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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Ciprian Neagoe, Ioan Albert Tudor, Cristina Florentina Ciobota, Cristian Bogdanescu, Paul Stanciu, Nicoleta Zarnescu-Ivan, Radu Robert Piticescu and Maria Dolores Romero-Sanchez
Microencapsulation of alkali metal nitrates for latent heat storage in concentrated solar power plants has the potential to reduce salt corrosion in storage tanks and installations.
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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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S. Potts, D.R. Walwyn
Wide-scale deployment of variable renewable energy (wind and solar photovoltaic) is constrained by its associated requirements for energy storage, the technologies for which are currently too expensive to be routinely used. Concentrated solar power (CSP)...
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Tejvir Singh, Muataz Ali Atieh, Tareq Al-Ansari, Abdul Wahab Mohammad and Gordon McKay
Desalination accounts for 1% of the total global water consumption and is an energy-intensive process, with the majority of operational expenses attributed to energy consumption. Moreover, at present, a significant portion of the power comes from traditi...
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