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Thermoeconomic Analysis of Concentrated Solar Power Plants Based on Supercritical Power Cycles

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2023
Solar thermal power plants are an alternative for the future energy context, allowing for a progressive decarbonisation of electricity production. One way to improve the performance of such plants is the use of supercritical CO2 power cycles.
María José Montes   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tuning the Optoelectronic Properties of Wide Bandgap Perovskites: Data‐Driven Insights from Combinatorial Synthesis and High‐Throughput Experimentation

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Combinatorial vapor deposition enables independent tuning of Cs/Pb and Br/Cl in wide‐bandgap perovskites. Automated multimodal mapping of 500+ compositions reveals a high‐energy optical transition that correlates with enhanced photoluminescence, defining a practical Cs/Pb window.
Alexander Wieczorek   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Infrared-Reflective Coating on Fused Silica for a Solar High-Temperature Receiver [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
In concentrating solar power, high-temperature solar receivers can provide heat to highly efficient cycles for electricity or chemical production. Excessive heating of the fused-silica window and the resulting recrystallization are major problems of high-
Polenzky, Christina   +4 more
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Closed Solar Thermal Receiver for Air at Ambient Pressure

open access: yesSolarPACES Conference Proceedings, 2023
The concept for a closed solar thermal receiver for air at ambient pressure integrates robust heat storage with solids for concentrated solar power plants.
Ulrich Hueck   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Advancing SafeWax, A Bio‐Inspired Superhydrophobic Coating, Toward Sustainable and Climate‐Resilient Crop Protection

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study advances SafeWax, a bio‐inspired, fatty‐acids‐based superhydrophobic coating, by identifying an agriculturally compliant solvent and revealing how solvent‐controlled Fatty acid crystallization governs the coating's microscopic structure and performance.
Niv Ben‐Arie   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Performance Investigation of High Temperature Application of Molten Solar Salt Nanofluid in a Direct Absorption Solar Collector

open access: yesMolecules, 2019
Nanofluids have great potential in a wide range of fields including solar thermal applications, where molten salt nanofluids have shown great potential as a heat transfer fluid (HTF) for use in high temperature solar applications.
M. A. Karim   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Architecture‐Driven Functional Coupling in Vertically Aligned Nanocomposites

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Vertically aligned nanocomposites define a growth‐engineered architecture in which vertical interfaces, strain fields, defect pathways, and phase connectivity are created simultaneously. This review shows how these architectural features couple ferroic, optical, ionic, electrochemical, and device responses, establishing design rules and open challenges
Md Shatil Islam‐Shanto   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gas Flow in Hot Porous Materials: The Solar Air Receiver and Spin-Off Applications [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This article presents an overview on research results from various projects, which deal with one common problem: gas flow in hot porous materials. First, the solar air receiver, which converts concentrated solar radiation into heat in an air circuit, is ...
Reutter, Oliver   +4 more
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Graded Metallopolymer Structures with Shape‐Memory Abilities via DLP‐Based 3D‐Printing

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study presents the digital light processing (DLP) based 3D printing of graded metallopolymers featuring shape‐memory abilities. The permanent shape can be recovered in two distinct steps with excellent rates. The obtained graded prints range from simple rod‐like structures to complex hollow materials.
Michael Klein   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Development of a tube receiver for a solar-hybrid microturbine system [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Solar-hybrid microturbine systems with cogeneration offer new possibilities for the generation of electricity and heat or air conditioning. The solar receiver is an important component of such a system. For a prototype system demo project a tube receiver
Amsbeck, Lars   +4 more
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