... temperature profiles. Results show that the MPC controller was successful in regulating the reactor temperature within ± 5°C of its setpoint and maintaining robust performance with minimum input effort when subjected to external disturbances. Keywords: Solar energy; Solar Fuel; Solar reactor; Thermal storage...

... obtained from the experiments among all runs. The proposed model can be implemented as a low-order physical model for the control of temperature inside plug-flow reactors for thermochemical energy storage (TCES) applications. solar energy solar fuel solar reactor thermal storage Proceedings...

... thermal energy storage phase change material solar energy energy building A NUMERICAL ANALYSIS ON A SOLAR CHIMNEY WITH AN INTEGRATED THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE WITH PHASE CHANGE MATERIAL Bernardo Buonomo, Lucia Capasso, Angelo Fatigati, Oronzio Manca and Sergio Nardini Dipartimento di Ingegneria...

... of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia 2 School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3001, Australia ABSTRACT Investigations are underway around the world to make solar energy more competitive...

... geometric parameters on output. Performance of solar plants Solar chimneys Solar energy Computation of turbulent buoyancy driven flows Proceedings of HT2005 2005 ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference s a w r b l v g t a o c c f a Proceedings of HT2005 2005 ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference 1...

... characteristics on the flow field within the solar plant as well as its effect on overall plant performance. It reveals strong dependence of plant performance on the selected turbine characteristics. Performance of solar plants Solar chimneys Solar energy Buoyancy driven flows Turbulent Flow with Heat...