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Mehdi Soltanian, Siamak Hoseinzadeh and Davide Astiaso Garcia
Water scarcity is a global concern and poses significant problems to countries with arid and semi-arid climates, like Iran. Considering financial difficulties, a lack of knowledge about high-tech alternatives, low incomes, a lack of access to high-tech t...
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Jian Yan, Youduo Peng and Duzhong Nie
The mirror unit installation error of the solar parabolic dish concentrator can adversely affect its optical performance causing optical intercept losses and hot spots on the absorber surface, which in turn affect safety. Thus, minimizing mirror installa...
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Francisco Buendía-Martínez, Aránzazu Fernández-García, Florian Sutter, Loreto Valenzuela and Alejandro García-Segura
The corrosion of the reflective layer is one of the main degradation mechanisms of solar reflectors. However, the appropriate assessment of the corroded reflector samples is not accomplished by the current analysis techniques. On the one hand, the reflec...
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Johannes Wette, Aránzazu Fernández-García, Florian Sutter, Francisco Buendía-Martínez, David Argüelles-Arízcun, Itziar Azpitarte and Gema Pérez
In this work, results of the outdoor exposure campaign of a newly developed hydrophilic anti-soiling coating for concentrated solar thermal power (CSP) mirrors are presented. The material was exposed for nearly two years under realistic outdoor condition...
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Karidewa Nyeinga, Denis Okello, Ole Jorgen Nydal
This study describes a 3D ray tracer model for analysis of a small-scale solar concentrating system where thermal heat is collected for cooking purposes. Emitted sun rays were traced from the source through all reflections until they intercepted with the...
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João Paulo N. Torres, Carlos A. F. Fernandes, João Gomes, Bonfiglio Luc, Giovinazzo Carine, Olle Olsson and P. J. Costa Branco
Solar concentrator photovoltaic collectors are able to deliver energy at higher temperatures for the same irradiances, since they are related to smaller areas for which heat losses occur. However, to ensure the system reliability, adequate collector geom...
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Muhammad Adil Khan, Byeonghun Ko, Esebi Alois Nyari, S. Eugene Park and Hee-Je Kim
Reducing the price of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems has been a constant challenge. Despite recent advances, solar PV systems are still more costly than conventional energy resources. For the first time, this study examines the effectiveness of three di...
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Yi Ding, Peizhuan Chen, Qi Hua Fan and Guofu Hou
One of the foremost challenges in designing thin-film silicon solar cells (TFSC) is devising efficient light-trapping schemes due to the short optical path length imposed by the thin absorber thickness. The strategy relies on a combination of a high-perf...
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Gang Pei, Guiqiang Li, Xi Zhou, Jie Ji and Yuehong Su
Evacuated tube solar water heater systems are widely used in China due to their high thermal efficiency, simple construction requirements, and low manufacturing costs. CPC evacuated tube solar water heaters with a geometrical concentration ratio C
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