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Solar Power Tower Drives: A Comprehensive Survey
IEEE Access, 2023 Recently, renewable energy is considered a vital source for electricity generation that aims to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions acquired from fossil fuels.
Waleed M. Hamanah +4 more
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Comparison Study of Two Different Sun-Tracking Methods in Optical Efficiency of Heliostat Field
International Journal of Photoenergy, 2012 There are two sun-tracking methods widely used for the heliostat, which are conventional Azimuth-Elevation and revolutionary Spinning-Elevation methods. Following the previous study to compare the range of motion, a comparison study in optical efficiency
K.-K. Chong, M. H. Tan
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Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 2020 Solar thermal system has been envisioned for utility scale applications. However, on the low end the domestic applications can be made realizable through low end automation.
Hafiz Muhammad Ashraf Hayat +4 more
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Stable Emissions from a Four-Rod Nd:YAG Solar Laser with ±0.5° Tracking Error Compensation Capacity
Photonics, 2023 Conventional solar-pumped lasers rely on expensive and highly accurate solar tracking systems, which present a significant economic barrier to both solar laser research and practical applications.
Miguel Catela +7 more
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Application of CMAC Neural Network to Solar Energy Heliostat Field Fault Diagnosis
International Journal of Photoenergy, 2013 Solar energy heliostat fields comprise numerous sun tracking platforms. As a result, fault detection is a highly challenging problem. Accordingly, the present study proposes a cerebellar model arithmetic computer (CMAC) neutral network for automatically ...
Neng-Sheng Pai +3 more
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Heliostat Cluster Control for the Solar Tower Power Plant Based on Leader-Follower Strategy
IEEE Access, 2019 As one of the most promising power generation technologies using renewable energy sources, and the solar thermal electric power generation may be developed to alleviate the energy crisis.
Qiyue Xie +4 more
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Seven-Rod Pumping Concept for Highly Stable Solar Laser Emission
Energies, 2022 A seven-rod solar laser head was conceptualized and numerically studied to improve the tracking error compensation capacity and power stability in end-side-pumping schemes.
Hugo Costa +6 more
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Evaluation of Flow Parameters around Tracking Solar Collectors with Different Collector Geometry and Different Operation Conditions [PDF]
Engineering and Technology Journal, 2014 In the current study, the flow parameters around the tracking solar collectors were evaluated. Different site conditions with different tracking solar collector's geometry are combined and investigated. Site conditions included different wind loading due
Khalid Hameed Hussein
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Energies, 2023 Significant numerical improvements in Fresnel lens Nd:YAG solar laser collection efficiency, laser quality factors and tracking error compensation capacity by two Fresnel lenses as primary solar concentrators are reported here.
Bruno D. Tibúrcio +6 more
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SCADA-Based Heliostat Control System with a Fuzzy Logic Controller for the Heliostat Orientation
Applied Sciences, 2019 In central receiver systems, there are local controls that modify the position of the heliostats, where the trend is to increase the intelligence of the local controls in order to give them greater autonomy from the central control.
Eugenio Salgado-Plasencia +3 more
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