Journal of Solar Energy Engineering: Recent submissions
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Innovatively Arranged Curved-Ribbed Solar-Assisted Air Heater: Performance and Correlation Development for Heat and Flow Characteristics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Solar radiation is a rich and clean source of energy. It can be collected and converted to thermal energy with the help of flat plate collectors called the solar-assisted air heater. Because of the low coefficient of heat ... -
Sustainable Agriculture Irrigation System Using a Novel Solar Still Design With a Compound Parabolic Concentrator Reflector
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)In this paper, a new design of a solar still powered by a compound parabolic concentrator (CPC-SS) for agriculture irrigation is proposed and investigated. The concentrating performance of its concentrator is simulated ... -
Experimental Study With Analytical Validation of Energy Parameters in Parabolic Trough Collector With Twisted Tape Insert
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Thermo-hydraulic performance evaluation of parabolic trough collector is important while introducing heat transfer augmentation techniques to it. In the present outdoor experimental study, the role of twisted tape is ... -
Research on the Performance of a Vertical-Axis Wind Turbine With Helical Blades by Detached Eddy Simulation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)In this paper, due to its advantages of high accuracy and moderate computational cost, detached eddy simulation (DES) is adopted to observe detail flow characteristics of a kind of vertical axial wind turbine equipped with ... -
Annual Performance Evaluation of Evacuated Tube Solar Air Collector With Phase Change Material
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This manuscript has been presented to evaluate the annual performance of evacuated tube solar air collector (ETSAC) by using phase change material (PCM). The PCM (acetamide) simultaneously stores and exchange the heat to ... -
Experimental Investigation on Airflow and Water Production in the Integrated Rooftop Solar Thermal System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Solar chimney is a passive renewable technology, adopted and followed widely for the application of room ventilation and power production. It requires a wide space for operation. Hence, an effective heat transfer mechanism ... -
Modeling and Optimization of a New Configuration of Heat Pipe Parabolic Trough Collector for Solar Water Heating
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This work reports the design, numerical modeling, and optimization of a new solar water heater using a heat pipe parabolic trough collector (HPPTC) with low concentration ratio. The heat pipe evaporator is positioned on ... -
Techno-Economic Analysis of Micro-Grid Based Photovoltaic/Diesel Generator Hybrid Power System for Rural Electrification in Kerkennah, Tunisia
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)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 ... -
Performance Analysis of Partially Shaded Photovoltaic Array Using Magic Square View Configuration for Shade Dispersion
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The power generated by the photovoltaic (PV) array is affected by the partial shading, caused by the neighboring object shadows, dirtiness, moving clouds, bird droppings, different orientation angles of PV modules, deposition ... -
Design, Fabrication, and Partial Characterization of a Solar Receiver and Air-Cooled Heat Exchanger for a Concentrated Solar Power Supercritical CO2 Testbed
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This research details the design, fabrication, and partial testing of a concentrated solar receiver and an air-cooled heat exchanger. The solar receiver and heat exchanger have been fabricated for use in an experimental ... -
A Hybrid Ray-Tracing Optical Model for Compound Parabolic Concentrators
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Compound parabolic concentrator (CPC), as a hybrid of the stationary and the tracking collectors, can collect both direct beam and diffuse radiation. CPCs are favorable choices for medium-temperature applications for their ... -
District-Level Summertime Air-Conditioning Electricity Consumption and the Sensitivity of Peak Cooling Loads to Urban Weather Conditions in Beijing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Understanding how energy use responds to meteorological conditions is essential for anticipation of energy demands, which is of significance to maintain sufficient power supply and to prevent brownouts or blackouts during ... -
Assessment of Photovoltaic Capabilities in Urban Environments: A Case Study of Islamabad, Pakistan
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Photovoltaic (PV) estimation in an urban environment requires detection of rooftop area, design of PV system based on optimization on PV placement distance and the study of additional benefit of lower cooling load of ... -
Optimization of Fin Parameters to Reduce Entropy Generation and Melting Time of a Latent Heat Storage Unit
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)One of the challenges in the design and development of a latent heat storage unit (LHSU) is to increase the charging and discharging rates which are inherently low because of low thermal conductivity of phase change materials ... -
Performance Evaluation of Hybrid Photovoltaic Thermal Thermoelectric Collector Using Grasshopper Optimization Algorithm With Simulated Annealing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)In this paper, a mathematical model of a single-channel photovoltaic thermal (PVT) air collector incorporated with a thermoelectric (TE) module has been presented. The overall electrical energy obtained from the photovoltaic ... -
Monte Carlo Ray Tracing-Coupled Computational Fluid Dynamic Modeling and Experimental Testing of a 1-kW Solar Cavity Receiver Radiated via 7-kW HFSS
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Current state-of-the-art development of concentrated solar power (CSP) applications targets cost-effective and highly efficient processes in order to establish commercialization of these technologies. The design of solar ... -
Investigation of the Effect of Porous Material on the Flow and Temperature Patterns of a Passive Solar Air Heater
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)In this work, the effect of flow resistance due to the presence of porous medium representing agricultural products at the exit of free convection-based solar air heater is studied experimentally and numerically. An air ... -
Understanding the Effects of Capturing Climate and Occupancy Trends During Concept-Stage Sustainable Building Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This paper presents a model prediction to capture specifically how energy usage in sustainable buildings on college campuses is affected by different variables of student life. The California State University, Fullerton ... -
The Effect of the Temperature Difference on the Performance of Photovoltaic-Thermoelectric Hybrid Systems
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)The performance of the photovoltaic-thermoelectric (PV-TE) hybrid system was examined using three types of PV cells and a thermoelectric generator (TEG) based on bismuth telluride. The investigated PV cells are amorphous ... -
Computational Simulation of the Thermal Performance of a Solar Air Heater Integrated With a Phase Change Material
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)The performance of a solar collector with wax as a phase change material (PCM) located in a set of staggered pipes configuration was simulated computationally in this work. For the solar radiation of Chile, the accumulation ...