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Sylvain Rodat and Richard Thonig
Solar energy is not only the most abundant energy on earth but it is also renewable. The use of this energy is expanding very rapidly mainly through photovoltaic technology. However, electricity storage remains a bottleneck in tackling solar resource var...
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Yi?an Wang, Zhe Wu and Dong Ni
Optimizing the heliostat field aiming strategy is crucial for maximizing thermal power production in solar power tower (SPT) plants while adhering to operational constraints. Although existing approaches can yield highly optimal solutions, their consider...
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Christos Sammoutos, Angeliki Kitsopoulou, Panagiotis Lykas, Evangelos Bellos and Christos Tzivanidis
The exploitation of solar irradiation is a critical weapon for facing the energy crisis and critical environmental problems. One of the most emerging solar technologies is the use of solar towers (or central receiver systems) coupled with high-performanc...
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María José Montes, Rafael Guedez, David D?Souza and José Ignacio Linares
This work is intended as a guide for the design of solar thermal tower plants based on a microchannel radial receiver refrigerated by a pressurised gas, and coupled to a supercritical CO2 power cycle. The work demonstrates the influence of the receiver c...
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Nader S. Saleh, Shaker Alaqel, Eldwin Djajadiwinata, Rageh S. Saeed, Zeyad Al-Suhaibani, Obida Zeitoun, Hany Al-Ansary, Abdulelah Alswaiyd, Abdelrahman El-Leathy, Syed Danish, Sheldon Jeter, Ashley Byman, Neville Jordison and David Moon
This paper presents a thermal performance evaluation of a novel particle-to-air heat exchanger. The heat exchanger has a patented design with a shell-and-tube configuration. Solid particles move as a dense packed-bed inside the vertical tubes of the heat...
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Fabio Maria Aprà, Sander Smit, Raymond Sterling and Tatiana Loureiro
For years, concentrated solar power (CSP) has been considered an emerging technology that could disrupt the energy production sector. The possibility to store the electricity generated during the sunny operating hours in the form of heat enhances energy ...
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In recent years, the Chinese government has vigorously promoted the development of concentrating solar power (CSP) technology. For the commercialization of CSP technology, economically competitive costs of electricity generation is one of the major obsta...
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Chao Li, Rongrong Zhai and Yongping Yang
Of all the renewable power generation technologies, solar tower power system is expected to be the most promising technology that is capable of large-scale electricity production. However, the optimization of heliostat field layout is a complicated proce...
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Kamel Hooman, Xiaoxue Huang and Fangming Jiang
This paper focuses on the optimization of a Solar-Enhanced Natural-Draft Dry-Cooling Tower (SENDDCT), originally designed by the Queensland Geothermal Energy Centre of Excellence (QGECE), as the air-cooled condenser of a geothermal power plant. The conve...
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L.W. Beneke, C.J.S. Fourie, Z. Huan
South Africa has limited reserve electricity resources and many parts of the country have limited access to electricity, while electricity production capacity is at maximum and almost every gigawatt is accounted for. The energy crisis has highlighted the...
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