Journal of Solar Energy Engineering: Recent submissions
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Solar Thermochemical Cyles for Fuel Production in Germany
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Where Do We Go From Here?
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Solar and Climatic High Performance Factors for the Placement of Solar Power Plants in Argentina Andes Sites—Comparison With African and Asian Sites
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)The installation of solar power plants is currently having a notable expansion. The results presented show that the Argentinean Andes range, from the central to northern latitudes, is an excellent region for the placement ... -
Heat Transfer Enhancement in a Flat-Plate Solar Water Heater Through Longitudinal Vortex Generator
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)The solar energy is a renewable source that has a great potential for conversion into thermal energy or for generation of electric power through photovoltaic panels in Brazil. Concerns about environmental impacts and the ... -
Impact of Blade Flexibility on Wind Turbine Loads and Pitch Settings
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Along with the upscaling tendency, lighter and so more flexible wind turbine blades are introduced for reducing material and manufacturing costs. The flexible blade deforms under aerodynamic loads and in turn affects the ... -
Methodology for Preliminary Design of Buildings Using Multi-Objective Optimization Based on Performance Simulation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Buildings' energy consumption has a great energetic and environmental impact worldwide. The architectural design has great potential to solve this problem because the building envelope exerts influence on the overall system ... -
Inert and Reactive Oxide Particles for High-Temperature Thermal Energy Capture and Storage for Concentrating Solar Power
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Oxide particles have potential as robust heat transfer and thermal energy storage (TES) media for concentrating solar power (CSP). Particles of low-cost, inert oxides such as alumina and/or silica offer an effective, ... -
FluxTracer: A Ray Tracer Postprocessor to Assist in the Design and Optimization of Solar Concentrators and Receivers
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)This paper presents FluxTracer, an advanced open source computer tool to assist in the analysis, design, and optimization of solar concentrators and receivers. FluxTracer is a postprocessor for Monte Carlo ray tracers used ... -
Heat Transfer Model of a 50 kW Solar Receiver–Reactor for Thermochemical Redox Cycling Using Cerium Dioxide
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)This work reports on the development of a transient heat transfer model of a solar receiver–reactor designed for thermochemical redox cycling by temperature and pressure swing of pure cerium dioxide in the form of a ... -
Characterization of a Laser-Based Heating System Coupled With In Operando Raman Spectroscopy for Studying Solar Thermochemical Redox Cycles
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)A 200 W CO2 laser-based heating system coupled with in operando Raman spectroscopy has been developed. The system delivers highly concentrated radiation capable of driving thermochemical reactions and simulates heat fluxes ... -
Thermodynamic Analyses of Fuel Production Via Solar-Driven Ceria-Based Nonstoichiometric Redox Cycling: A Case Study of the Isothermal Membrane Reactor System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)A thermodynamic model of an isothermal ceria-based membrane reactor system is developed for fuel production via solar-driven simultaneous reduction and oxidation reactions. Inert sweep gas is applied on the reduction side ... -
Inverse Analysis of Radiative Flux Maps for the Characterization of High Flux Sources
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)The reconstruction of the angular and spatial intensity distribution from radiative flux maps measured in high flux solar simulators (HFSS) or optical concentrators is an ill-posed inverse problem requiring special solution ... -
Redox Oxides-Based Solar Thermochemistry and Its Materialization to Reactor/Heat Exchanger Concepts for Efficient Solar Energy Harvesting, Transformation and Storage
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Ca-Mn-based perovskites doped in their A- and B-site were synthesized and comparatively tested versus the Co3O4/CoO and (Mn,Fe)2O3/(Mn,Fe)3O4 redox pairs with respect to thermochemical storage and oxygen pumping capability, ... -
Moving Brick Receiver–Reactor: A Solar Thermochemical Reactor and Process Design With a Solid–Solid Heat Exchanger and On-Demand Production of Hydrogen and/or Carbon Monoxide
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Three crucial aspects still to be overcome to achieve commercial competitiveness of the solar thermochemical production of hydrogen and carbon monoxide are recuperating the heat from the solid phase, achieving continuous ... -
Performance Assessment of a Heat Recovery System for Monolithic Receiver-Reactors
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)The most advanced solar thermochemical cycles in terms of demonstrated reactor efficiencies are based on temperature swing operated receiver-reactors with open porous ceria foams as a redox material. The demonstrated ... -
Experimental Framework for Evaluation of the Thermodynamic and Kinetic Parameters of Metal-Oxides for Solar Thermochemical Fuel Production
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)The two-step metal oxide redox cycle is a promising and thermodynamically attractive means of solar fuel production. In this work, we describe the development of a high-temperature tubular reactor in which the fundamental ... -
Parametric Study and Sensitivity Analysis of Latent Heat Thermal Energy Storage System in Concentrated Solar Power Plants
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Compared to solar photovoltaics, concentrated solar power (CSP) can store excessive solar thermal energy, extend the power generation, and levelize the mismatch between the demand and supply. Thermal energy storage (TES) ... -
Characterization of a New 10 kWe High Flux Solar Simulator Via Indirect Radiation Mapping Technique
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)This paper presents characterization of a new high flux solar simulator consisting of a 10 kW Xenon arc via indirect heat flux mapping technique for solar thermochemical applications. The method incorporates the use of a ... -
Techno-Economics of Cogeneration Approaches for Combined Power and Desalination From Concentrated Solar Power
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)For many decades, integration of concentrated solar power (CSP) and desalination relied solely on the use of conventional steam Rankine cycles with thermally based desalination technologies. However, CSP research focus is ... -
Analysis of Solar Receiver Performance for Chemical-Looping Integration With a Concentrating Solar Thermal System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)This paper introduces a chemical-looping configuration integrated with a concentrating solar thermal (CST) system. The CST system uses an array of mirrors to focus sunlight, and the concentrated solar flux is applied to a ...