Journal of Solar Energy Engineering: Recent submissions
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Nonequilibrium Thermal Fluctuations of Flow in Thermal Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Fouling is detrimental to the heat transfer performance of concentrated solar power plant components where heat exchange takes place with the cooling tower water. Wave elements cause an expression of deep insight of the ... -
Assessment of Wind Field Generation Methods on Predicted Wind Turbine Power Production Using a Free Vortex Filament Wake Approach
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The generated power and thrust of a wind turbine strongly depend on the flow field around the turbine. In the present study, three different inflow methods, i.e., a time series (TS) from large eddy simulation (LES) of ... -
Assessment of Influence of Urban Aerosol Vertical Profile on Clear-Sky Diffuse Radiance Pattern
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Aerosol particles spread in the atmosphere play an important role in solar light scattering and thus co-determine the sky radiance/luminance pattern as well as diffuse irradiances/illuminances at the ground. The particular ... -
Thermal Performance of a Low and Medium Temperature Flat Plate Solar Collector When Controlling the Output-Input Temperature Difference and the Tilt Angle
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This work presents a sensitivity analysis of the overall heat loss coefficient UL and the thermal efficiency η in low and medium temperature encapsulated flat plate solar collectors when controlling the output-input ... -
A Comparative Analysis of Artificial Neural Networks for Photovoltaic Power Forecast Using Remotes and Local Measurements
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The inclusion of photovoltaic systems in distribution networks has raised the importance of the prediction of photovoltaic power for safe planning and operation. Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have been used in this ... -
Effect of Carbon Particle Feeding as Radiant Absorbent for Enhanced Heat Transfer
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Carbon particles can be used as catalyst in solar reactors where they serve as radiant absorbent and nucleation sites for the heterogeneous decomposition reaction. Unlike commonly used metal catalysts, carbon catalyst does ... -
Experimental Study on CaCO3 Fouling Characteristics During Falling Film Evaporation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Falling film evaporation is widely used in solar desalination systems. Fouling is an important problem to be addressed in many applications involving heat transfer including processes involving the utilization of solar ... -
Experimentation and Performance Analysis of Solar-Assisted Heat Pump Dryer for Intermittent Drying of Food Chips
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)A solar-assisted heat pump (HP) dryer is fabricated for intermittent drying. The experiment is performed for different intermittency ratios for radish drying using future refrigerant, R1234yf. The effect of total drying ... -
Modeling and Maximum Power Tracking of a Solar-Wind Microgeneration System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The global energy scenario is changing, and clean generation is leading the way. As new ways of producing energy becomes more popular, microgeneration takes a greater share of the market, supplying both isolated and grid ... -
On-Sun Testing of a High-Temperature Solar Receiver’s Flux Distribution
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Concentrated solar power (CSP) is a promising technology in transitioning to renewable energy because of its abundance in nature and thermal energy storage (TES) capability. Among the four types of available CSP technology, ... -
Reviewer’s Recognition
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)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 2021. Serving as reviewers ... -
Experimental Study of Single-Slope Solar Still Coupled With Nanofluid-Based Volumetric Absorption Solar Collector
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)In the present endeavor, a conventional single-slope solar still has been modified to improve its performance by coupling it with a novel nanofluid-based volumetric absorption solar collector (NBVASC). A low-cost and ... -
Socio-Technical Modeling to Manage Power Distribution for Microgrid Systems With Limited Production Capacity
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The quality of life (QOL) in rural communities is improved through electrification. Microgrids can provide electricity in areas where grid access to electricity is infeasible. Still, insufficient power capacity hinders the ... -
Prediction of Daily Photovoltaic Energy Production Using Weather Data and Regression
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This paper presents linear regression models to predict the daily energy production of three photovoltaic (PV) systems located in southeast Virginia. The prediction is based on daylight duration, sky index, average relative ... -
A Statistical Methodology to Estimate Soiling Losses on Photovoltaic Solar Plants
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)One of the challenges in photovoltaic solar plants is the performance maintenance in the presence of adverse environmental conditions. Soiling on the solar panels is one of those challenges having a high decrease impact ... -
Wind Power Deterministic Prediction and Uncertainty Quantification Based on Interval Estimation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)With the increasing penetration of wind power into modern power systems, accurate forecast models play a crucial role in large-scale wind power consumption and power system stability. To improve the accuracy and reliability ... -
Investigation of a Novel Solar Powered Trigeneration System for Simultaneous Production of Electricity, Heating, and Refrigeration Below Freezing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)A solar powered trigeneration system consisting of tower solar collector, Kalina cycle with the heat exchanger, and ejector-absorption refrigeration cycle is proposed to produce refrigeration below freezing, electricity, ... -
Use of Perforation and Mathematical Modeling to Increase Solar-Based Steam Distillation System Efficiency
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Solar distillation system has recently been explored and used for the extraction of essential oil from different agricultural herbs. The efficiency of conventional distillation systems is low, and most are driven by hot ... -
Optimal Sizing of Cylindrical Receivers for Surround Heliostat Fields Using fluxtracer
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This article presents an innovative approach for optimizing the dimensions of cylindrical receivers for solar tower systems. In this approach, a single set of rays, representative of a complete annual ray-tracing simulation ... -
Comparative Study of Different Photovoltaic/Thermal Hybrid Configurations From Energetic and Exergetic Points of View: A Numerical Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)At present, only 20 percent of the incident solar radiation on the photovoltaic module is converted into electricity with the remaining dissipated as heat. The heat accumulation on the photovoltaic modules affects the ...