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Advances and Challenges in Solar PV Systems’ Performance
Energies, 2022 The increase in the dissemination of renewable energies constitutes a new energy model that can be used to face the global challenges derived from the reduction in fossil fuels to limit the effects of global warming [...]
Jesús Polo
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A free real-time hourly tilted solar irradiation data Website for Europe [PDF]
, 2014 The engineering of solar power applications, such as photovoltaic energy (PV) or thermal solar energy requires the knowledge of the solar resource available for the solar energy system.
Gonzalez-Bonilla, Loreto +2 more
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Influences of Optical Factors on the Performance of the Solar Furnace
Energies, 2019 In this paper, an optical structure design for a solar furnace is described. Based on this configuration, Monte Carlo ray tracing simulations are carried out to analyze the influences of four optical factors on the concentrated solar heat flux ...
Zhiying Cui +3 more
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Comparative analysis of insulated floating cover of water pit thermal energy storage
Energy Reports, 2023 Water pit thermal energy storage (PTES) as a sensible heat storage technology has been applied in many places with significant success. The insulated floating cover (IFC) of water pit is the key component of the PTES thermal storage efficiency and ...
Mingfei He +6 more
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Effect of Subgrains on the Performance of Mono-Like Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells
International Journal of Photoenergy, 2013 The application of Czochralski (Cz) monocrystalline silicon material in solar cells is limited by its high cost and serious light-induced degradation. The use of cast multicrystalline silicon is also hindered by its high dislocation densities and high ...
Su Zhou +6 more
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Dynamically Coupled Operation of Two-Tank Indirect TES and Steam Generation System
Energies, 2019 A thermal energy storage system is a critical component in concentrating solar power plants (CSPP), owing to which concentrating solar power (CSP) has superiorities over photovoltaic and wind power. Currently, the sole thermal energy storage (TES) system
Xiaolei Li +5 more
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Wind tunnel test study on the wind load variation law of a point focus solar furnace
Frontiers in Energy Research, 2023 This work studied the wind load acting on a point focus solar furnace composed of a 110 m2 heliostat and a 77 m2 concentrator through wind tunnel testing.
Mingfei He +19 more
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Sensors, 2020 Solar irradiance and cell temperature are the most significant aspects when assessing the production of a photovoltaic system. To avoid the need of specific sensors for quantifying such parameters, recent literature presents methods to estimate them ...
Caio Felippe Abe +3 more
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Investigation of the energy performance of a novel modular solar building envelope [PDF]
, 2017 The major challenges for the integration of solar collecting devices into a building envelope are related to the poor aesthetic view of the appearance of buildings in addition to the low efficiency in collection, transportation, and utilization of the ...
Jin, Hong +4 more
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Energy Reports, 2022 Water pit thermal energy storage (PTES) can transfer the solar energy heating from the non-heating season to the heating season, which can efficaciously cope with the mismatch problems in energy intensity, usage time and space of solar energy heating ...
Mingfei He +7 more
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