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Energies, 2020 Today, application of cavity receivers in solar concentrator systems is suggested as an interesting and novelty research subject for increasing thermal performance.
Alireza Rafiei +3 more
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Heliyon, 2021 The solar receiver is considered the cornerstone of the solar tower power system. In particular, it receives high-temperature heat flux rays, and extracts the maximum heat energy to be transferred to the heat transfer fluid, while minimising any thermal ...
Hashem Shatnawi +3 more
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Thermal Modelling and Simulation of Parabolic Trough Receiver Tubes [PDF]
, 2010 Receiver tubes (or heat collecting elements — HCE) are a key component of parabolic trough solar thermal power plants. They are mounted in the focal line of the collectors, absorb the concentrated solar irradiance and transfer the absorbed energy to the ...
Jan Fabian Feldhoff +5 more
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Ultra-high temperature concentrated solar thermal energy [PDF]
, 2023 Given the extremely high surface temperature of the Sun (~5778 K), solar radiation has the theoretical potential, in accordance with the second law of thermodynamics, to heat a receiver on Earth up to ultra-high temperatures (specified in this thesis as >
Abdelsalam, Tarek
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Thermal Analysis of the Receiver of a Standalone Pilot Solar Dish–Stirling System
Entropy, 2018 Recent developments in solar thermal systems have aroused considerable interest in several countries with high solar potential. One of the most promising solar driven technologies is the solar thermal dish-Stirling system.
Ehsan Gholamalizadeh, Jae Dong Chung
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De-Risking Solar Receivers to Achieve SunShot Targets
Energies, 2022 Concentrating solar thermal (CST) systems are unique among renewable energy options for the ease of integration with thermal energy storage (TES). This enables dispatchable (or continuous) production of electricity, process heat, solar fuels, or other ...
Matthew L. Bauer
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Review of Molten-Salt Thermocline Tank Modeling for Solar Thermal Energy Storage [PDF]
, 2013 Molten-salt thermocline tanks are a low-cost option for thermal energy storage in concentrating solar power systems. A review of previous experimental and numerical thermocline tank studies is performed to identify key issues associated with tank design ...
Yang, Z. +2 more
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Optical efficiency measurement of solar receiver tubes: A testbed and case studies
Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 2018 Knowledge of the parabolic-trough collector (PTC) solar receiver performance is essential in solar thermal power plants using this type of collector technology because it is the component responsible for collecting the solar radiation and transferring it
Rafael López-Martín, Loreto Valenzuela
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A review of solar collectors and thermal energy storage in solar thermal applications [PDF]
, 2013 Thermal applications are drawing increasing attention in the solar energy research field, due to their high performance in energy storage density and energy conversion efficiency. In these applications, solar collectors and thermal energy storage systems
Zhao, Changying +3 more
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Dense suspension of solid particles as a new heat transfer fluid for concentrated solar thermal plants: on-sun proof of concept [PDF]
, 2013 This paper demonstrates the capacity of dense suspensions of solid particles to transfer concentrated solar power from a tubular receiver to an energy conversion process by acting as a heat transfer fluid.
Sans, Jean-Louis +7 more
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