Journal of Solar Energy Engineering: Recent submissions
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Reviewer's Recognition
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)The Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board of the ASME Journal of Solar Energy Engineering would like to thank all of the reviewers for volunteering their expertise and time reviewing manuscripts in 2022. Serving as reviewers ... -
Experimental Investigation on the Thermal Performance of a Conical Solar Water Heater Using Mixed Asphalt Absorber Plate
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)In the present research, an investigational study on thermal performance of a mixed asphalt conical solar water heater (MACSWH) was analyzed under field conditions. The key target of the present research is to evaluate the ... -
A Comprehensive 4E Study on the Performance of Bifacial Solar Module Installed on Different Ground Surface Colors: An Experimental Study on a Specific Site
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Solar energy will be the most sought-after source for generating electricity shortly because of its availability in abundance and pollution-free nature. Bifacial photovoltaic (PV) technology increases the power output ... -
Design of a Combined Proportional Integral Derivative Controller to Regulate the Temperature Inside a High-Temperature Tubular Solar Reactor
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Solar fuels are proven to be promising candidates for thermochemical energy storage. However, the transient nature of solar radiation is an obstacle to maintaining a stable operational temperature inside a solar reactor. ... -
Efficiency Improvement of Photovoltaic Solar Modules by Cooling Using an Underground Heat Exchanger
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Overheating of solar cells under normal operational conditions highly reduces their energy harvesting efficiency and produces additional problems related to thermal cycling and performance degradation of the modules. In ... -
Experimental Investigation and Optimizing the Parameters of a Solar Air Heater Having Broken Arc-Shaped Ribs Using Hybrid Entropy-VIKOR Technique
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)In this article, thermal performance of a solar air heater (SAH) having broken arc-shaped ribs has been investigated experimentally, and then, performance parameters have been optimized. Study reveals that the use of ... -
A Reactor Train System for Efficient Solar Thermochemical Fuel Production1
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Thermochemical redox cycles are a promising route to producing solar fuels. In this work, a novel reactor train system (RTS) is proposed for the efficient conversion of solar thermal energy into hydrogen. This system is ... -
A Numerical Investigation Into the Flow Development and Heat Transfer Characteristics for Different Tube Geometry Configurations in a Water in Glass Evacuated Tube Solar Water Heater
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)This study aims to numerically assess the heat transfer performance of water-in-glass evacuated tube solar water heater (WGET-SWH) for various parameters. It is observed that the natural circulation flowrate, velocity, and ... -
Influence of Photovoltaic Shading on Rooftop Heat Transfer, Building Energy Loads, and Photovoltaic Power Output
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Photovoltaic (PV) modules on building rooftops provide shade from summer heating, leading to a reduction in cooling load during hot seasons. However, PV shading also reduces passive solar heating during winter months, ... -
The Effect of Pitch on Heat Transfer to an Immersed Heat Exchanger in a Solar Thermal Storage Tank With and Without a Baffle
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The effect of the pitch of a copper coil heat exchanger immersed in a hot water storage tank on heat transfer from the storage tank to the heat exchanger working fluid is investigated. The storage tank is initially quiescent ... -
Analysis of Fouling on Nanocomposite Surfaces in Plate Heat Exchangers
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)In the application of plate heat exchangers (PHEs), fouling has always been an intractable problem that results in decreasing the heat transfer efficiency and increasing the associated pressure drop. Plate heat exchangers ... -
A Novel Approach for Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis of Mean Wind Loads on Heliostats
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)A computational fluid dynamics study about the aerodynamic loads over a heliostat due to an atmospheric boundary layer flow using a modified k–ɛ turbulence model is presented. A new formulation is used, in which the model ... -
Energetic and Exergetic Analysis of a Solar-Driven Single-Effect Absorption Refrigeration System Using LiBr + LiCl/H2O Solution Mixture
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Comprising an eco-friendly blueprint, absorption refrigeration systems have attracted a lot of interest as they can use biomass, solar and geothermal energy sources which can mitigate climate change. The current study ... -
Secondary Reflector and Receiver Positions for Uniform Heat Flux Distribution in Parabolic Trough Solar Thermal Collector
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The distributions of heat flux over the circumference of the receiver tubes have an immense influence on the performance and reliability of the parabolic trough solar thermal collectors. The location of the receiver tube ... -
Enhancing TEM00-Mode Solar Laser With Beam Merging and Ring-Array Concentrator
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)It is reported here a large improvement in numerically calculated TEM00-mode side-pumped solar laser efficiency, and brightness figure-of-merit by pumping two thin Nd:YAG laser rods simultaneously with a ring-array solar ... -
Performance Investigation of Supercritical CO2 Brayton Cycles in Combination With Solar Power and Waste Heat Recovery Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)A performance assessment of advanced sCO2 Brayton cycles integrated with a concentrated solar power and waste heat recovery systems was conducted. Five advanced sCO2 Brayton cycles are examined for the bottoming cycle: ... -
Computational Investigation on the Influence of Expandable Blades on the Performance of a Savonius Wind Turbine
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)To improve the efficiency of a Savonius vertical axis wind turbine, this investigation proposes the use of expandable blades instead of rigid blades. The expandable blades have the ability to change their form during the ... -
Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop in a Double-Pass Solar Air Heater With Arc-Shaped Artificial Roughness
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)An experimental and theoretical study has been performed to analyze the heat transfer and pressure drop performance of a double-pass solar air heater having arc-shaped roughness. The investigations are performed for the ... -
A Novel Solar Photovoltaic Array Reconfiguration Technique Using Two-Dimensional Generalized Arnold's Cat Map
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)This paper presents a highly efficient image encryption-based Arnold's cat map (ACM) technique to reconfigure the photovoltaic (PV) array to enhance the output and mitigate the mismatch losses due to partial shading (PS). ... -
Research on the Effect of Wind Speed and Angle on Photovoltaic Cell Characteristics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The effects of wind speed (F) and angle (θ) on the photovoltaic (PV) cells’ (monocrystalline silicon and triple-junction GaAs solar cells) temperature (T) and output characteristics (the short-circuit current (Isc), the ...