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Techno-economic projections for advanced small solar thermal electric power plants to years 1990-2000 [PDF]
, 1978 Advanced technologies applicable to solar thermal electric power systems in the 1990-200 time-frame are delineated for power applications that fulfill a wide spectrum of small power needs with primary emphasis on power ratings less than 10MWe ...
Chen, K. H. +6 more
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Energy Procedia, 2014 In line with the global trend for improving efficiency of existing solar power plants, the CTAER has developed and built a variable geometry central receiver facility, in which the solar field rotates around the tower axis following the sun's position during the day.
Ruiz Hernández, Valeriano +6 more
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Encoding and Perception of Electro-communication Signals in Apteronotus leptorhynchus
Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 2019 Animal communication plays an essential role in triggering diverse behaviors. It is believed in this regard that signal production by a sender and its perception by a receiver is co-evolving in order to have beneficial effects such as to ensure that ...
Michael G. Metzen
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Energies, 2020 One of the most interesting perspectives for the development of concentrated solar power (CSP) is the storage of solar energy on a seasonal basis, intending to exploit the summer solar radiation in excess and use it in the winter months, thus stabilizing
Michela Lanchi +6 more
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SolarPACES Conference Proceedings, 2023 Large market opportunities exist for solar powered Reverse Osmosis (RO) desalination technologies in fertile but arid areas with large solar and sea water resources. A challenge to realizing these markets is the variable nature of solar resources, which
Eylül Gedik +2 more
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Optics of solar central receiver systems: a review
Optics Express, 2016 This article reviews the state of the art in optical design, modeling and characterization of solar central receiver systems.
Lifeng, Li +4 more
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Energies, 2017 This paper contains an extensive review of life cycle assessment (LCA) studies on greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from different material-based photovoltaic (PV) and working mechanism-based concentrating solar power (CSP) electricity generation systems ...
Raghava Kommalapati +3 more
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Applied Sciences, 2020 Nowadays, there is an increasing interest in smart systems, e.g., smart metering or smart spaces, for which active sensing plays an important role. In such systems, the sample or environment to be measured is irradiated with a signal (acoustic, infrared,
Elena Aparicio-Esteve +5 more
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High-temperature latent thermal storage system for solar power: Materials, concepts, and challenges
Cleaner Engineering and Technology, 2021 Limited reserves of fossil fuels, increased world energy demand and swelling of environment pollution drive a transition towards renewable energy resources which can deliver 3E objectives (Economic, environmental and energy security).
Alok K. Ray +2 more
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Global Methods for Calculating Shading and Blocking Efficiency in Central Receiver Systems
EnergiesThis paper presents three new methods for calculating the shading and blocking efficiency in Central Receiver Systems (CRSs). All of them are characterized by the calculation of multiple useful and total reflecting areas without the need to resort to ...
Guillermo Ortega +2 more
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