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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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Mokhtar Mohammed, Mourad Taha Janan
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This study aims to investigate the influence of various parameters on the freshwater yield and efficiency of a novel concentration-based solar desalination system. The system performance under the summer and winter climatic conditions of Rabat city, Moro...
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Wisam Abed Kattea Al-Maliki, Nabeel Sameer Mahmoud, Hussein M. H. Al-Khafaji, Falah Alobaid and Bernd Epple
Dynamic simulation provides an efficient approach for improving the efficiency of parabolic trough power plants and control circuits. In the dynamic simulation, the possibilities and operating conditions of the plant are evaluated regarding materials, pr...
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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 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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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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Ratha Z. Mathkor, Brian Agnew, Mohammed A. Al-Weshahi and Fathi Latrsh
This paper reports on a study of the modelling, validation and analysis of an integrated 1 MW (electrical output) tri-generation system energized by solar energy. The impact of local climatic conditions in the Mediterranean region on the system performan...
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Afroza Nahar, M.K. Islam, , Md. Hasanuzzaman
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Evangelos Bellos and Christos Tzivanidis
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Francesco Calise and Laura Vanoli
This paper presents a design procedure and a simulation model of a novel concentrating PVT collector. The layout of the PVT system under investigation was derived from a prototype recently presented in literature and commercially available. The prototype...
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Adil Al-Falahi, Falah Alobaid and Bernd Epple
Absorption refrigeration cycle is considered a vital option for thermal cooling processes. Designing new systems is needed to meet the increasing communities? demands of space cooling. This should be given more attention especially with the increasing co...
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Evangelos Bellos and Christos Tzivanidis
In this study, the maximum work extraction from the incident solar energy on solar thermal collectors is investigated by coupling solar collectors with a Carnot machine. A simplified thermal model for the solar collector performance is developed in which...
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José Pereira, Ana Moita and António Moreira
The current work aims to offer a specific overview of the homogeneous dispersions of 2D nanomaterials in heat transfer base fluids?so-called 2D nanofluids. This data compilation emerged from the critical overview of the findings of the published scientif...
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Rameeza Moideen and Manasa Ranjan Behera
In the present study, breaking focused wave groups were simulated using open-source Computational Fluid Dynamics model REEF3D in order to investigate the breaking wave impact on scaled (1:10) two-dimensional coastal deck structure with girder. The effect...
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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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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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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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Zhiyong Tian, Bengt Perers, Simon Furbo, Jianhua Fan, Jie Deng and Janne Dragsted
A novel combined solar heating plant with flat plate collectors (FPC) and parabolic trough collectors (PTC) was constructed and put into operation in Taars, 30 km north of Aalborg, Denmark in August 2015. To assess the thermal performance of the solar he...
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Rogelio Peón Menéndez, Juan Á. Martínez, Miguel J. Prieto, Lourdes Á. Barcia and Juan M. Martín Sánchez
Many thermal solar power plants use thermal oil as heat transfer fluid, and molten salts as thermal energy storage. Oil absorbs energy from sun light, and transfers it to a water-steam cycle across heat exchangers, to be converted into electric energy by...
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