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10-MW Wind Turbine Performance Under Pitching and Yawing Motion
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)The possibility of a wind turbine entering vortex ring state (VRS) during pitching oscillations is explored in this paper. The work first validated the employed computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method, and continued with ... -
10-MWe Solar Thermal Central Receiver Pilot Plant
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3D Numerical Simulation of the Transient Thermal Behavior of a Simplified Building Envelope Under External Flow
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Understanding building envelope performance and thermal mass effects is becoming increasingly important under the scope of low energy building construction and energy conservation. In the present ... -
3D Woven Carbon/Glass Hybrid Spar Cap for Wind Turbine Rotor Blade
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)This paper presents the design and analysis for a spar cap for a wind turbine rotor blade. The cap is formed of an integral, unitary 3D woven material (3WEAVE®) having constant thickness; ... -
A 1-MWe Central Receiver Type Solar Thermal Electric Power Pilot Plant
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A 300kW Solar Chemical Pilot Plant for the Carbothermic Production of Zinc
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)In the framework of the EU-project SOLZINC, a 300-kW solar chemical pilot plant for the production of zinc by carbothermic reduction of ZnO was experimentally demonstrated in a beam-down solar ... -
A 50 kW Fluidized Bed High Temperature Solar Receiver: Heat Transfer Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1988)A theoretical and experimental investigation of a pilot scale solar fluidized bed receiver is presented. Large diameter alumina particles were used. Experimental data with the bed in the temperature ... -
A 50-kW Module Power Station of Directly Solar-Pumped Iodine Laser
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1997)The conceptual design of a 50 kW directly solar-pumped iodine laser (DSPIL) module was developed for a space-based power station which transmits its coherent-beam power to users such as the ... -
A 9-m-Aperture Solar Parabolic Trough Concentrator Based on a Multilayer Polymer Mirror Membrane Mounted on a Concrete Structure
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)A large-span solar parabolic trough concentrator is designed based on a multilayer polymer mirror membrane mounted on a rotatable concrete structure. The multilayer membrane is contained in a ... -
A Calculating Method Of Albedo and Experimental Study of its Influence on Building Heat Environment in Summer
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)One of the characters of urbanization is that cities develop spatially. The harmful effects of urban heat island put a burden on environmental preservation, energy saving, and thermal comfort. ... -
A Case Study of Electric Utility Demand Reduction With Commercial Solar Water Heaters
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1991)The City of Austin is studying the impact of solar water heaters on summer peak electric demand. One passive and two active solar water heating systems were installed on city-owned commercial ... -
A Change-Point Principal Component Analysis (CP/PCA) Method for Predicting Energy Usage in Commercial Buildings: The PCA Model
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1993)A new method for predicting daily whole-building electricity usage in a commercial building has been developed. This method utilizes a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) of intercorrelated influencing ... -
A Characteristic Dimensionless Time in Phase Change Problems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1986)In this paper a comparison is made between an approximate analytical solution and the numerical finite difference solution for the one dimensional solidification of a phase change material of ... -
A Circuit Based Approach to Simulate the Characteristics of a Silicon Photovoltaic Module With Aging
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)The aging of photovoltaic modules results inevitably in a decrease of their efficiency all through their lifetime utilization. An approach to simulate the evolution of electrical characteristics of a photovoltaic module ... -
A Clear Sky Model of Diffuse Sky Radiance
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1987)A model, previously proposed, describing the sky radiance as a continuous function, has been calibrated from 11,000 individual measurements made in scans taken across springtime skies in Toronto ... -
A Coefficient to Characterize Mixing in Solar Water Storage Tanks
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1994)A dimensionless coefficient is developed to characterize the level of mixing in solar water storage tanks. The MIX number, based on the height weighted energy, or moment of energy, in the ... -
A Combined Computational and Mathematical Analysis of Interconnect Fatigue Potential in Photovoltaic Modules
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)A finite element model of a 60-cell monocrystalline silicon glass-polymer photovoltaic module was simulated with ±1.0 kPa and ±2.4 kPa loads applied to the glass to calculate the deformation under load. Cell-to-cell ... -
A Combined Cycle of Heating and Adsorption Refrigeration: Theory and Experiment
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)A combined cycle capable of heating and adsorption refrigeration is proposed, and the experimental prototype has been installed. The system consists of a heater, a water bath, an activated ... -
A Compact Low-Pressure Drop Desiccant Bed for Solar Air Conditioning Applications: Analysis and Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1984)Requirements for silica gel desiccant beds used in the “Solar-Desiccant-Evaporative Cooling System” are discussed and the advantages of laminar flow packings demonstrated. An analysis of transient ... -
A Compact Low-Pressure Drop Desiccant Bed for Solar Air Conditioning Applications—2: Bench Scale Tests
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1985)Bench scale tests of a laminar flow silica gel packing element are reported. The packing is based on a coated sheet concept with a single layer of 0.25 mm silica gel particles lining narrow ...