Solar Thermal
Aerogel-based solar thermal receivers
... any solar thermal application, such as solar space heating, solar hot water for domestic or industrial use, concentrating solar power, or solar air conditioning, a solar ...
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Global optimization of solar power tower systems using a Monte Carlo algorithm: Application to a redesign of the PS10 solar thermal power plant
... of Solar Power Tower (SPT) systems in view of their significant capital ...the thermal energy collected annually by an SPT ...PS10 Solar Thermal Power ...the thermal energy collected ...
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Analysis and optimization of a novel hexagonal waveguide concentrator for solar thermal applications
... micro-optics solar concentrator, the incoming sunlight is focused by a micro-lens onto one or more localized scatterers in the waveguide, which guides the light waves towards the periphery via TIR, where the ...
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Design and global optimization of high-efficiency solar thermal systems with tungsten cermets
... Solar thermal, solar thermoelectrics, and solar thermophotovoltaics (TPV) offer three poten- tially high-efficiency paths for converting sunlight into ...low thermal reradiation – a ...
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Study of solar thermal energy in the north region of Algeria with simulation and modeling of an indirect convective solar drying system
... of solar thermal energy in the region of Constantine, situated at the north of Algeria and if it is profitable to a farmer to use ...air solar collector is made with cheap available materials and has ...
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Alternative coating technologies for metal-ceramic nanocomposite films : potential application for solar thermal absorber
... Solar absorber consisting of a metallic substrate coated with a high solar absorption coefficient film is a critical component of the solar thermal system. Several techniques are used to ...
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Modelling of a Solar Thermal Power Plant for Benchmarking Blackbox Optimization Solvers
... Concentrated Solar Power Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) systems harness the energy of the sun using a reflective surface to concentrate direct solar irradiation of a large area onto a smaller ...
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Computational study on controlling the optical properties of solar thermal fuels
... We found the best structure that yields maximum optical isomerization rate for trans-azobenzene and minimum optical isomerization rate for cis-azobenzene, calculating [r] ...
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Chapter 16 - Solar thermal powered Organic Rankine Cycles
... to solar ORC optimization to greatly reduce computation time; for deeper analysis into their relative bene fits the reader is referred to the literature ( Hassan et ...
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Dense suspension of solid particles as a new heat transfer fluid for concentrated solar thermal plants: on-sun proof of concept
... the solar receiver, which feeds a fluid bed heat exchanger (FBHE), where the particles transmit their energy to submerged tubes inside whose working fluid (for example steam) is gener- ated, the latter is then ...
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Solar Thermal Energy for Sustainable Development in Tunisia
... and solar power) in rural communities in ...of solar power, biogas and improved cooking stoves, it will permit a significant reduction in CO2 emissions of ...
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Adsorption at the nanoparticle interface for increased thermal capacity in solar thermal systems
... Before the desorption temperature, the enthalpy of fusion and the heat capacity of the nanofluid will decrease as the adsorbed layer detracts from the mass of the b[r] ...
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Design of a small-scale and off-grid water desalination system using solar thermal heating and mechanical vapor compression
... The top of the basin is in good thermal contact with the solar absorber. The heat is transferred to the water by conduction through the walls of the basin and also through the [r] ...
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Solar thermal active systems : from closed form models to simple sizing rules for collector circuits
... L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignemen[r] ...
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Design and validation of an air window for a molten salt solar thermal receiver
... cmax can also be written as a function of temperature (given the Antoine equation coefficients describing the salt vapor pressure as a function of temperature) so t[r] ...
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Concentrating Solar Power
... for solar-thermal applications since they offer the best available combination of low freezing point and high upper temperature ...trough solar plants but are ultimately limited by their relatively ...
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Development of a New Building-Integrated PV-Thermal Solar Module
... on thermal performance of PV-T ...all solar cells along the flow path will have non-uniform temperature that will cause electrical ...Moreover, solar cells on either side of junction box shown in ...
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Conceptual Design for a Hybrid Electric and Thermal Solar (HEATS) Receiver for Efficient and Dispatchable Solar Electricity
... change. Solar energy offers a promising renewable energy source, however it is expensive to store electricity from photovoltaics (PV), the most widely deployed solar electricity ...technology. Solar ...
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Measurement of thermal breakage potential of solar control sealed glazing units
... These points suggest that the greatest inner-pane breakage potential should be experienced by a sealed unit with a highly absorptive inner pane when it is exposed t[r] ...
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Solar simulation test up to 13 solar constants for the thermal balance of the Solar Orbiter EUI instrument
... the thermal design of the instrument, especially the heat evacuation property and to assess the thermo-mechanical behavior of the instrument when submitted to high thermal ...a thermal balance test ...
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