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Irena Balog, Francesco Spinelli, Paolo Grigioni, Giampaolo Caputo, Giuseppe Napoli and Lorenzo De Silvestri
The estimation of the average daily, monthly and annual direct normal solar irradiation (DNI) was done in the region hosting the Mario Zucchelli Station, in the bay of Terra Nova (Antarctica). Estimates are based on measurements of direct normal (DNI), h...
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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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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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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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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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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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Zebiao Shao, Bo Wang, Yao Xu, Liang Sun, Xichen Ge, Lvpei Cai and Cheng Chang
Building skin can provide comprehensive functions of energy production, daylighting, and shading with an integrated transmissive solar-concentrating panel. In this study, Rhino Grasshopper parametric modeling, Ladybug tool performance simulation, and Oct...
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Douglas Olivares, Abel Taquichiri, Pablo Ferrada, Aitor Marzo, Mauro Henríquez, Darío Espinoza, Edward Fuentealba and Jaime Llanos
There is currently an energy crisis that has led to photovoltaic operators maximizing their resources, making soiling a problem to consider in order to ensure project profitability. Energy production costs are strongly affected by the use of scarcely eff...
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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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