... (CSP) and concentrated solar thermal (CST) systems that employ central receivers. The case studies we develop include a large-scale CSP plant, a smaller, modular CSP plant, and a small CST plant used for industrial process heat. In this work, we also propose a novel metric for TEA of a plant component...

...@sandia.gov Contributed by the Solar Energy Division of ASME for publication in the J ournal of S olar E nergy E ngineering . 05 09 2023 08 07 2024 08 07 2024 16 07 2024 clean energy collector solar tower system Solar Energy Technologies Program 10.13039...

..., and electrical, dependent on a wide variety of parameters. Thus, optimization of the overall energy conversion is still a challenge for powering the increasing energy demanding UUVs for long missions. The goal of this study is to propose a PCM-based ocean thermal energy harvesting system for powering float-type...

.... The former describes the exact thermal performance of the system for a two-month wintertime for the city of Baghdad, Iraq. The latter describes average performance of the system. The implicit finite difference method and method of separation of variables have been used to solve the pertinent equations...

..., and reflect light without blocking each other. Through the theoretical analysis of this type of concentrating system, in the same space span, with the increase of the installation height of the cylindrical focal surface, the concentrating ratio and area utilization rate gradually increase. The area...

...Saad Alshahrani; Ladislav Vesely; Jayanta Kapat; C. Ahamed Saleel; Abraham Engeda A performance assessment of advanced sCO 2 Brayton cycles integrated with a concentrated solar power and waste heat recovery systems was conducted. Five advanced sCO 2 Brayton cycles are examined for the bottoming...

... the design conditions, the effects of split ratio on the net power, the thermal efficiency, and the exergy loss of the combined cycle are studied. The variation of thermal efficiency of each part of the system with split ratio under different turbine inlet pressures and temperatures is further analyzed...

...Brahim Taoufik; Jemni Abdelmajid A novel dual tank photovoltaic/thermal (PV/T) indirect parallel solar-assisted heat pump system was investigated in this paper, which filled a gap in the literature. Furthermore, a long-term performance study analysis was performed under Tunisian climate to offset...

.... By determining what energy devices will be required to achieve that change, energy demand can be estimated. This model is envisioned to aid in the power management strategy. In the case of demand exceeding the capacity of the system, the allocation of available resources needs consideration. The intermittent...

...Mohamed T. Mohamed; Reza Tafreshi Flywheel Energy Storage Systems (FESS) present an environment-friendly solution for storing and utilizing solar energy; however, voltage and current frequent fluctuations in solar module photovoltaic (PV) systems limit the efficiency of the FESS bidirectional...

... , A. , Otman , M. Y. , Ruslan , M. H. , Yahya , M. , Zaharim , A. , and Sopian , K. , 2011 , “ Techno-Economic Analysis of Solar Drying System for Seaweed in Malaysia ,” Proc. of the 7th IASME/WSEAS Int. Conf. on Energy, Environment, Ecosystems and Sustainable Development , EEESD( 11 ), pp...

...Houda Dardour; Olfa Chouaieb; Habib Sammouda This paper scrutinizes the techno-economic feasibility of a solar hybrid off-grid power system, in a rural area in Tunisia. Hybrid Optimization of Multiple Energy Resources ( homer ) is used for the design and the optimization of a hybrid photovoltaic...

... for cost reductions compared with state of the art two-tank (2T) TES. On the other hand, however, it leads to a performance decrease of the power block (PB) due to partial part load operation. To evaluate the dominating effect, annual simulations on a system level are performed for the TCF direct molten...

...M. Sridharan; G. Jayaprakash; M. Chandrasekar; P. Vigneshwar; S. Paramaguru; K. Amarnath In recent years, solar PV/T water collectors have been identified as one of the most promising hybrid devices. It is a combination of solar photovoltaic (PV) and solar flat plate collector (FPC) systems capable...

... Efficiency Optics Parabolic trough Solar receiver System Thermal power Wind Parabolic troughs represent the most proven and lowest cost large-scale concentrating solar power (CSP) technology available today [ 1 , 2 ]. Although towers and dishes promise higher concentration ratios and system...

... profile in a storage tank simulation. Finally, the influence of this error on predictions of the annual solar fraction for a domestic hot water system was explored. Clean energy Collector Conservation Efficiency Energy Environment Heat transfer Heating Renewable Simulation Solar Storage...

...Jinsong Liu; Lance Manuel As offshore wind turbines supported on floating platforms extend to deep waters, the various effects involved in the dynamics, especially those resulting from the influence of moorings, become significant when predicting the overall integrated system response. The combined...

...Siyuan Lu; Rong Dai; Guangru Zhang; Quan Wang A street lamp with automatic solar tracking system can control the adjusting mechanism of azimuth and altitude so that the solar panel may adapt itself to the sunlight to improve the photoelectric conversion efficiency. In this work, we demonstrated...

...Muzaffar Ali; Vladimir Vukovic; Hafiz Muhammad Ali; Nadeem Ahmed Sheikh The demand for affordable, environment-friendly, and reliable water conditioning systems has led to the introduction of several standalone and/or hybrid alternatives. The technology of desiccant evaporative cooling (DEC) has...

... plant, a trade-off between reducing cleaning costs and cleaning related collector availability on the one hand and keeping the solar field cleanliness ( ξ field ) high to minimize soiling induced losses on the other hand must be found. The common yield analysis software packages system advisor model...