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Nanofluids for Direct-Absorption Solar Collectors—DASCs: A Review on Recent Progress and Future Perspectives [PDF]
Nanomaterials, 2023 Owing to their superior optical and thermal properties over conventional fluids, nanofluids represent an innovative approach for use as working fluids in direct-absorption solar collectors for efficient solar-to-thermal energy conversion. The application
Hussein Sayed Moghaieb +5 more
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Economical judge possibility uses solar collectors to warm service water and heating [PDF]
Acta Montanistica Slovaca, 2006 The sun-heated water has been used from before fossil fuels started to determine the direction of our power consumption. This article is focused on the assessing of the use of solar energy as one of inexhaustible resources that has multiple uses ...
Lívia Bodonská
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Comparative Study on Solar Collector’s Configuration for an Ejector-Refrigeration Cycle [PDF]
ITB Journal of Engineering Science, 2008 Solar collector’s configuration plays important role on solar-powered refrigeration systems to work as heat source for generator. Three types of solar collector consisting of flat plate, evacuated tube, and compound parabolic solar collectors are ...
Raffles Senjaya, I Made Astina
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Energy Reports, 2020 Recently, the use of solar thermal collectors has increased significantly. In the present work, energy, exergy, enviroeconomic and exergoeconomic analyses of various solar thermal collectors are investigated.
Weibiao Huang, Mohammad Marefati
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Low-Cost Solar Collectors to Pre-Heat Ventilation Air in Broiler Houses
Energies, 2022 The objective of the study was to evaluate the effect of a low-cost solar collector to pre-heat ventilation air in commercial broiler buildings on supplemental heating demand and air quality during the cold season. Six black fabric-based solar collectors
Yi Liang +2 more
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An Updated Review of Solar Cooling Systems Driven by Photovoltaic–Thermal Collectors
Energies, 2023 Solar cooling systems are widely used in the building sector, as they can utilize low-grade solar energy to reduce carbon emissions. To improve the thermodynamic performance and economic performance of solar cooling systems, solar cooling systems driven ...
Cong Jiao, Zeyu Li
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Energies, 2020 In Poland, various solar collector systems are used; among them, the most popular are flat plate collectors (FPCs) and evacuated tube collectors (ETCs). The work presents two installations located at a distance of 80 km apart, working in similar external
Piotr Olczak +2 more
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Assessment of the Trilateral Flash Cycle potential for efficient solar energy conversion in Europe
Energy Conversion and Management: X, 2023 The potential of the Trilateral Flash Cycle (TFC) for the efficient conversion of solar energy to power in Europe is assessed in this work. A numerical analysis of a Solar-TFC thermal power unit is performed, by applying an in-house numerical model. Flat
Anastasios Skiadopoulos +6 more
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ASHMET: A computer code for estimating insolation incident on tilted surfaces [PDF]
, 1980 A computer code, ASHMET, was developed by MSFC to estimate the amount of solar insolation incident on the surfaces of solar collectors. Both tracking and fixed-position collectors were included. Climatological data for 248 U. S.
Elkin, R. F., Toelle, R. G.
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Economic Analysis of Flat-Plate and U-Tube Solar Collectors Using an Al2O3 Nanofluid
Energies, 2017 In this study, the efficiencies of flat-plate and U-tube solar collectors were investigated experimentally when an Al2O3 nanofluid was used as a working fluid and compared to those of solar collectors using water.
Woobin Kang, Yunchan Shin, Honghyun Cho
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