...Saad Alshahrani; Ladislav Vesely; Jayanta Kapat; C. Ahamed Saleel; Abraham Engeda A performance assessment of advanced sCO 2 Brayton cycles integrated with a concentrated solar power and waste heat recovery systems was conducted. Five advanced sCO 2 Brayton cycles are examined for the bottoming...

... the design conditions, the effects of split ratio on the net power, the thermal efficiency, and the exergy loss of the combined cycle are studied. The variation of thermal efficiency of each part of the system with split ratio under different turbine inlet pressures and temperatures is further analyzed...

...Brahim Taoufik; Jemni Abdelmajid A novel dual tank photovoltaic/thermal (PV/T) indirect parallel solar-assisted heat pump system was investigated in this paper, which filled a gap in the literature. Furthermore, a long-term performance study analysis was performed under Tunisian climate to offset...

... can be estimated. This model is envisioned to aid in the power management strategy. In the case of demand exceeding the capacity of the system, the allocation of available resources needs consideration. The intermittent nature of renewable resources and occasional maintenance issues present scenarios...

...Mohamed T. Mohamed; Reza Tafreshi Flywheel Energy Storage Systems (FESS) present an environment-friendly solution for storing and utilizing solar energy; however, voltage and current frequent fluctuations in solar module photovoltaic (PV) systems limit the efficiency of the FESS bidirectional...

... loaded with samples into the drying chamber. The heated air flows from the bottom up and affects the samples on its way. Therefore, maintaining the temperature inside the drying chamber using an auxiliary system is required. The considered mass of the three samples is (35 ± 0.1) g/plate. According...

...Houda Dardour; Olfa Chouaieb; Habib Sammouda This paper scrutinizes the techno-economic feasibility of a solar hybrid off-grid power system, in a rural area in Tunisia. Hybrid Optimization of Multiple Energy Resources ( homer ) is used for the design and the optimization of a hybrid photovoltaic...

... for cost reductions compared with state of the art two-tank (2T) TES. On the other hand, however, it leads to a performance decrease of the power block (PB) due to partial part load operation. To evaluate the dominating effect, annual simulations on a system level are performed for the TCF direct molten...

...M. Sridharan; G. Jayaprakash; M. Chandrasekar; P. Vigneshwar; S. Paramaguru; K. Amarnath In recent years, solar PV/T water collectors have been identified as one of the most promising hybrid devices. It is a combination of solar photovoltaic (PV) and solar flat plate collector (FPC) systems capable...

... lower capital cost systems with better optical performance. Six Talent Peaks Project in Jiangsu, China (XNY-028). National Key Technology RandD Program (2014BAJ01B06). National Natural Science Foundation of China (51105192). Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu province of China...

...Jinsong Liu; Lance Manuel As offshore wind turbines supported on floating platforms extend to deep waters, the various effects involved in the dynamics, especially those resulting from the influence of moorings, become significant when predicting the overall integrated system response. The combined...

... profile in a storage tank simulation. Finally, the influence of this error on predictions of the annual solar fraction for a domestic hot water system was explored. Contributed by the Solar Energy Division of ASME for publication in the J OURNAL OF S OLAR E NERGY E NGINEERING : I NCLUDING W IND...

...Siyuan Lu; Rong Dai; Guangru Zhang; Quan Wang A street lamp with automatic solar tracking system can control the adjusting mechanism of azimuth and altitude so that the solar panel may adapt itself to the sunlight to improve the photoelectric conversion efficiency. In this work, we demonstrated...

... plant, a trade-off between reducing cleaning costs and cleaning related collector availability on the one hand and keeping the solar field cleanliness ( ξ field ) high to minimize soiling induced losses on the other hand must be found. The common yield analysis software packages system advisor model...

...Muzaffar Ali; Vladimir Vukovic; Hafiz Muhammad Ali; Nadeem Ahmed Sheikh The demand for affordable, environment-friendly, and reliable water conditioning systems has led to the introduction of several standalone and/or hybrid alternatives. The technology of desiccant evaporative cooling (DEC) has...

... of a typical solar central receiver system and ( b ) main parameters accounted in the developed model To simulate the solar radiation in the model, Monte Carlo ray tracing offers better accuracy however it requires excessive computational effort. A convolution-based method heat flux layout calculator...

...Luiz A. S. Ferreira; Hermes J. Loschi; Abel A. D. Rodriguez; Yuzo Iano; Douglas A. do Nascimento The performance of photovoltaic (PV) systems is highly influenced by the tilt angle of PV modules and the incidence of global solar irradiance, which may change the solar to electrical conversion...

...Ali Q. Al-Shetwi; Muhamad Zahim Sujod According to modern grid codes (GCs), high penetration of photovoltaic power plants (PVPPs) to the utility grid requires a reliable PV generation system by achieving fault ride-through (FRT) requirements. In order to meet these requirements, there are two major...

... Solar System Testing Three grid-connected solar photovoltaic (PV) arrays were constructed on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) campus in Gaithersburg, MD, with construction finishing around July 2012. This location is 32 km (20 mi) northwest of Washington, DC in a mixed...

... ]. The membrane can be manufactured using a certain type of polymers. Renewable Solar System Thermodynamics Fig. 4 QFD of the solar RO unit Fig. 5 The amount of permeate water (PW) per hour for 14 days The designing and maunfacturing of the RO unit is easy to mainatin...