scholarly journals Concentrating Solar Power Advances in Geometric Optics, Materials and System Integration

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (19) ◽  
pp. 6229
Author(s):  
Georgios E. Arnaoutakis ◽  
Dimitris Al. Katsaprakakis
Keyword(s):  
System Integration ◽  
Alternative Energy ◽  
Solar Power ◽  
Energy Utilization ◽  
Geometric Optics ◽  
Concentrating Solar Power ◽  
Latent Heat Storage ◽  
Efficient System ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Thermochemical Processes

In this paper, the technological advances in concentrating solar power are reviewed. A comprehensive system approach within this scope is attempted to include advances of highly specialized developments in all aspects of the technology. Advances in geometric optics for enhancement in solar concentration and temperature are reviewed along with receiver configurations for efficient heat transfer. Advances in sensible and latent heat storage materials, as well as development in thermochemical processes, are also reviewed in conjunction with efficient system integration as well as alternative energy generation technologies. This comprehensive approach aims in highlighting promising concentrating solar power components for further development and wider solar energy utilization.

A concentrating solar power system integrated photovoltaic and mid-temperature solar thermochemical processes

2020 ◽  
Vol 262 ◽  
pp. 114421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wanjun Qu ◽  
Xueli Xing ◽  
Yali Cao ◽  
Taixiu Liu ◽  
Hui Hong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power System ◽  
Solar Power ◽  
Concentrating Solar Power ◽  
Thermochemical Processes ◽  
Solar Thermochemical

scholarly journals Solar system design for water pumping

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 06001
Author(s):  
Hadidi Abdelkader ◽  
Yaichi Mohammed
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Energy ◽  
Energy Utilization ◽  
Photovoltaic System ◽  
Photovoltaic Energy ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Water Pumping ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Replacement Solution ◽  
Hot Weather ◽  
The Moment

In our days, it seems to us that nobody can suspect it on the importance of water and energy for the human needs. With technological advances, the energy need does not cease increasing. This problem of energy is even more sensitive in the isolated sites where the use of the traditional resources proves often very expensive. Indeed, several constraints, like the transport of fuel and the routine maintenances of the diesel engines, return the search for an essential alternative energy source for this type of sites. It summer necessary to seek other resources of energy of replacement. Renewable energies, like photovoltaic energy, wind or hydraulic, represent a replacement solution par excellence and they are used more and more in our days more especially as the national territory has one of the solar layers highest with the world. The duration of insolation can reach the 3900 hours/year on the Sahara. The energy acquired daily on a horizontal surface of 1m2 is about 5kWh, that is to say meadows of 2263kWh/m2/year in the south of the country. The photovoltaic energy utilization for pumping of water is well adapted for more the share of the arid and semi-arid areas because of the existence in these areas of an underground hydraulic potential not very major. Another very important coincidence supports the use of this type of energy for the water pumping is that the demand for water, especially in agriculture, reached its maximum in hot weather and dryness where it is precisely the moment when one has access to the maximum of solar energy. The goal to see an outline on the general composition of a photovoltaic system of pumping, as well as the theoretical elements making it possible to dimension the current pumping stations.

scholarly journals PARABOLIC TROUGH COLLECTOR CONCENTRATING SOLAR POWER AS STEAM PRODUCER USING SOLAR IRRADIATION OF CEPU, BLORA, CENTRAL JAVA

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 155-168
Author(s):  
Andrian Aziz Burhan A.S ◽  
Dzul Fadhli Aziz ◽  
Muhammad Nur Hidayat
Keyword(s):  
Temperature Increase ◽  
Alternative Energy ◽  
Solar Power ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Solar Irradiation ◽  
Parabolic Trough ◽  
Concentrating Solar Power ◽  
Parabolic Trough Collector ◽  
Central Java ◽  
Cloudy Weather

Alternative energy sources has grown lately, especially for solar energy harnessed with Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) to produce steam that will be converted into a certain form of energy. The steam produced can also be used for petroleum industry to reduce the fuel usage in boilers. Daily solar irradiation of 5.18001 5.21909 kWh/m2 received by Cepu, Blora, Central Java, is deemed sufficient for CSP with parabolic trough collector (PTC) as steam producer. This paper describes the designing of the parabolic trough collector CSP, temperature increase gained from PTC, and peak temperature gained from 1 PTC. The initial experiment of PTC in cloudy, sunny, and cloudy-sunny-cloudy weather resulting in water temperature increase gained to be 172oC, 401.1oC, 285.9oC using Cepu District solar irradiation. Further experiments will be done to find out the relationship between temperature over time.

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