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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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Mohammad Rahjoo, Guido Goracci, Pavel Martauz, Esther Rojas and Jorge S. Dolado
Solar energy is an energy intermittent source that faces a substantial challenge for its power dispatchability. Hence, concentrating solar power (CSP) plants and solar process heat (SPH) applications employ thermal energy storage (TES) technologies as a ...
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Gabriel Zsembinszki, Aran Solé, Camila Barreneche, Cristina Prieto, A. Inés Fernández and Luisa F. Cabeza
The aim of this study is to perform a review of the state-of-the-art of the reactors available in the literature, which are used for solid?gas reactions or thermal decomposition processes around 1000 °C that could be further implemented for thermochemica...
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Carmelina Abagnale, Maria Cristina Cameretti, Roberta De Robbio and Raffaele Tuccillo
The authors discuss in this paper the potential of two power plant concepts for distributed generation, based on the integration of a cogenerating micro gas turbine with a solar panel array. The first one relies on the adoption of a parabolic trough netw...
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Lucio Pinello, Massimo Fossati, Marco Giglio, Francesco Cadini, Carla Bevilacqua, Mario Cilento, Fulvio Bassetti and Raffaello Magaldi
Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plants use mirrors to reflect and concentrate sunlight onto a receiver, to heat a fluid and store thermal energy, at high temperature and energy density, to produce dispatchable heat and/or electricity. The secondary mirror...
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Toyosi Onalapo Craig,Alan C Brent,Frank Dinter
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South Africa aims to generate 42 per cent of its electricity from renewable energy technology sources by 2030. Concentrating solar power (CSP) is one of the major renewable energy technologies that have been prioritised by South Africa, given the abundan...
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Michela Lanchi, Luca Turchetti, Salvatore Sau, Raffaele Liberatore, Stefano Cerbelli, Maria Anna Murmura and Maria Cristina Annesini
One of the most interesting perspectives for the development of concentrated solar power (CSP) is the storage of solar energy on a seasonal basis, intending to exploit the summer solar radiation in excess and use it in the winter months, thus stabilizing...
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Jiawen Bai, Tao Ding, Zhe Wang and Jianhua Chen
A concentrated solar power (CSP) plant with energy storage systems has excellent scheduling flexibility and superiority to traditional thermal power generation systems. In this paper, the operation mechanism and operational constraints of the CSP plant a...
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Kelly Atkinson, Robin Hughes and Arturo Macchi
The calcium looping (CaL) process, which exploits the reversible calcination of calcium carbonate, has been proposed as a solution to the challenges facing deployment of concentrated solar power (CSP). As an extension of the work undertaken to date, this...
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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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Catalina Hernández Moris, Maria Teresa Cerda Guevara, Alois Salmon and Alvaro Lorca
The energy sector in Chile demands a significant increase in renewable energy sources in the near future, and concentrated solar power (CSP) technologies are becoming increasingly competitive as compared to natural gas plants. Motivated by this, this pap...
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Alhussein Albarbar and Abdullah Arar
In this work, the energy status and supply plans of Saudi Arabia are discussed with a focus on concentrated solar power (CSP) technologies. Subsequently, optimal designs for a 20 MWe solar power plant external receiver, combined with a 15 h thermal energ...
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Claudia Toro, Matteo V. Rocco and Emanuela Colombo
The latest developments in solar technologies demonstrated that the solar central receiver configuration is the most promising application among concentrated solar power (CSP) plants. In CSPs solar-heated air can be used as the working fluid in a Brayton...
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Udochukwu B. Akuru, Ogbonnaya I. Okoro, Chibuike F. Maduko
The DESERTEC project, a European Union (EU) initiative to harness solar energy by means of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) from Africa for use in Europe, shows the enormous potential that exists in alternative energy sources for the sub-region once there ...
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Adrian Gonzalez Gonzalez, Jose Valeriano Alvarez Cabal, Miguel Angel Vigil Berrocal, Rogelio Peón Menéndez and Adrian Riesgo Fernández
Developing an accurate concentrated solar power (CSP) performance model requires significant effort and time. The power block (PB) is the most complex system, and its modeling is clearly the most complicated and time-demanding part. Nonetheless, PB layou...
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Faisal Asfand, Patricia Palenzuela, Lidia Roca, Adèle Caron, Charles-André Lemarié, Jon Gillard, Peter Turner and Kumar Patchigolla
The use of wet cooling in Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plants tends to be an unfavourable option in regions where water is scarce due to the high water requirements of the method. Dry-cooling systems allow a water consumption reduction of up to 80% but...
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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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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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Ying Yang, Yingjie Li, Xianyao Yan, Jianli Zhao and Chunxiao Zhang
Due to the inconsistency and intermittence of solar energy, concentrated solar power (CSP) cannot stably transmit energy to the grid. Heat storage can maximize the availability of CSP plants. Especially, thermochemical heat storage (TCHS) based on CaO/Ca...
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Cristóbal Villasante, Saioa Herrero, Marcelino Sánchez, Iñigo Pagola, Adrian Peña, David Olasolo and Ana Bernardos
At any time of the day, a spherical mirror reflects the rays coming from the sun along a line that points to the sun through the center of the sphere. This makes it possible to build concentrated solar power(CSP) plants with fixed solar fields and mobile...
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