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Shan Gao, Yiqing Zhang and Yu Liu
High renewables penetrated power systems would be greatly influenced by the uncertainty of variable renewable energy such as wind power and photovoltaic power. Unlike wind and photovoltaic plant, concentrating solar power with thermal energy storage has ...
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Concentrating solar power (CSP) is a promising technology for exploiting solar energy. A major advantage of CSP plants lies in their capability of integrating with thermal energy storage; hence, they can have a similar operability to that of fossil-fired...
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Marthoz Angulo-Calderón, Iván Salgado-Tránsito, Iván Trejo-Zúñiga, Carlos Paredes-Orta, Sajjad Kesthkar and Arturo Díaz-Ponce
In recent decades, advances in the development of solar tracking systems (STSs) have led to concentrating solar technologies to increase their energy conversion efficiency. These systems, however, still have areas of opportunity or improving their perfor...
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Evangelos Bellos and Christos Tzivanidis
The parabolic trough solar collector (PTC) is the most mature solar concentrating technology, and this technology is applied in numerous thermal applications. Usually, the thermal efficiency of the PTC is expressed with the aid of polynomial expressions....
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Evangelos Bellos, Ioannis Sarakatsanis and Christos Tzivanidis
The objective of the present work is the study of different thermal storage systems for a solar-fed organic Rankine cycle (ORC) system that operates with parabolic trough collectors. The conventional design with sensible thermal oil storage is compared w...
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Evangelos Bellos and Christos Tzivanidis
The objective of this work is the financial optimization of a solar-driven organic Rankine cycle. Parabolic trough solar collectors are used as the most mature solar concentrating system and also there is a sensible storage system. The unit is examined f...
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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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Kai Timon Busse, Frank Dinter
An investigation was carried out to illustrate the prospects and challenges associated with implementation of concentrating solar power (CSP) with storage technology in South Africa. Various factors were examined that have an effect on the cost of CSP pl...
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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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Samuel Sami
In this paper, the performance of nanofluids in a Parabolic Trough Concentrating Solar Collector (CSP)-based power generation plant, an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC), and a Thermal Energy Storage (TES) system is studied. This study is intended to investiga...
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Chieh-Li Chen, Chia-En Ho and Her-Terng Yau
This paper investigates the optimization of the performance of a solar powered Stirling engine based on finite-time thermodynamics. Heat transference in the heat exchangers between a concentrating solar collector and the Stirling engine is studied. The i...
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Zhe Mi, Jikun Chen, Nuofu Chen, Yiming Bai, Wenwang Wu, Rui Fu and Hu Liu
High concentrating photovoltaic (HCPV) is a promising technique for the practical commercial utilization of solar energy. However, the performance of a HCPV system is significantly influenced by environmental parameters such as solar direct normal irradi...
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João Carlos de Oliveira Matias, Radu Godina and Edris Pouresmaeil
The world population is growing at a very high rate, which also entails a massive increase in energy consumption, and also, therefore, in its production, which is gradually and steadily increasing. Energy and the environment are essential to achieving su...
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Shadreck M. Situmbeko, Freddie L. Inambao
Solar thermal energy (STE) technology refers to the conversion of solar energy to readily usable energy forms. The most important component of a STE technology is the collectors; these absorb the shorter wavelength solar energy (400-700nm) and convert it...
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Olga Shepovalova, Andrey Izmailov, Yakov Lobachevsky and Alexey Dorokhov
Developing an energy supply based on resources whose use does not spoil the noosphere and the creation of such energy supply of efficient equipment whose operation does not cause any damage to nature and man is an urgent task. The need for such an approa...
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João Paulo N. Torres, Carlos A. F. Fernandes, João Gomes, Bonfiglio Luc, Giovinazzo Carine, Olle Olsson and P. J. Costa Branco
Solar concentrator photovoltaic collectors are able to deliver energy at higher temperatures for the same irradiances, since they are related to smaller areas for which heat losses occur. However, to ensure the system reliability, adequate collector geom...
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Khaled M. Bataineh
This paper investigates the performance of the solar powered dish-Stirling engine using the nonlinearized heat loss model of the solar dish collector and the irreversible cycle model of the Stirling engine. Finite time thermodynamic analysis is used to i...
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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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