Journal of Solar Energy Engineering: Recent submissions
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Evolution and Progress in the Development of Savonius Wind Turbine Rotor Blade Profiles and Shapes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)The blade profiles and blade shapes of vertical-axis Savonius wind turbine rotors have undergone a series of changes over the past three decades. Wind turbine aerodynamicists have carried out numerous computational and ... -
Optimal Analysis of Entropy Generation and Heat Transfer in Parabolic Trough Collector Using Green-Synthesized TiO2/Water Nanofluids
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)This study presents an experimental nanoparticle synthesis and the numerical analysis of a parabolic trough collector (PTC) operating with olive leaf synthesized TiO2/water nanofluid. The PTC is modeled after the LS-2 ... -
Performance Analysis and Optimization of Fresnel Lens Concentrated Solar Water Heater
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Concentrated solar power (CSP) is a mature and efficient technology to cater the large-scale demand of hot water. Conventional reflectors/mirrors in CSP share 50% of total system cost. High installation as well as O&M ... -
Numerical Investigation of Two-Phase Flow Over Unglazed Plate Collector Covered With Porous Material of Wire Screen for Solar Water Heater Application
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)This paper presents three-dimensional numerical simulation results of the effect of surface tension on two-phase flow over unglazed collector covered with a wire screen. The homogenous model is used to simulate the flow ... -
A Comparative Performance Study of Double Basin Single Slope Solar Still With and Without Using Nanoparticles
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)In major region of the world, ample amount of fresh water is required for the drinking purpose as well as for the agricultural and industrial growth. Hence, it is necessary to investigate the alternate clean water extraction ... -
Review of Solar Cooling Technologies in the MENA Region
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)The demand for air conditioning and refrigeration has been increasing due to a rise in the global temperature and the burgeoning world population. Conventional electricity-driven vapor compression cycles (VCCs) use ... -
A Review on Different Design Modifications Employed in Inclined Solar Still for Enhancing the Productivity
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)The current challenge of human society is to meet the large demand of freshwater, which is depleting at a faster rate due to a rapid rise in human population and fast urbanization. Solar still is the economical way to ... -
Heat Transfer Models of Moving Packed-Bed Particle-to-sCO2 Heat Exchangers
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Particle-based concentrating solar power (CSP) plants have been proposed to increase operating temperature for integration with higher efficiency power cycles using supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2). The majority of ... -
Multifractal Analysis of Daily Global Horizontal Radiation in Complex Topography Island: La Reunion as a Case Study
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)An accurate assessment of the amount solar radiation incident at specific locations is highly complex due to the dependence of available solar radiation on many meteorological and topographic parameters. Reunion Island, a ... -
Effects of Novel Collector Roof on Solar Chimney Power Plant Performance
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)The effects of collector roughness shape on the performance of solar chimney power plant were investigated in this study. The roughness shapes of triangular, curved, and square grooves were chosen and were compared to ... -
Solar Radiation Model Applied to a Low Temperature Evacuated Tubes Solar Collector
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)A solar radiation model is applied to a low temperature water-in-glass evacuated tubes solar collector to predict its performance via computational fluid dynamics (CFD) numerical simulations. This approach allows obtaining ... -
On the Climate Variability and Energy Demands for Indoor Human Comfort Levels in a Tropical-Coastal Urban Environment
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)The main objective of this study is to identify how climate variability and urbanization influence human comfort levels in tropical-coastal urban environments. San Juan Metro Metropolitan Area (SJMA) of the island of Puerto ... -
Investigations of a Dehumidifier in a Solar-Assisted Liquid Desiccant Demonstration Plant
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)A solar-assisted liquid desiccant demonstration plant was built and experimentally evaluated. Humidity of the air, density of the desiccant, and all relevant mass flow rates and temperatures were measured at each inlet and ... -
Erratum: “A New Photovoltaic Arrays Fixed Reconfiguration Method for Reducing Effects of One- and Two-Sided Mutual Shading” [ASME J. Sol. Energy Eng., 2018, 141(3), p. 031013: DOI: 10.1115/1.4041930]
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Development and Operationalization of Solar-Assisted Rapid Bulk Milk Cooler
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)This work aims at providing insight into developmental and operational experience of an innovative milk cooler which uses solar thermal energy for cooling of fresh milk by way of vapor absorption refrigeration system (VARS). ... -
Diminution of Useful Solar Gains by Capacitive Thermal Losses and Thermal Piping Losses in a Solar Process Heat Plant With Parabolic Trough Collectors in Switzerland
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Process heat represents a major share of final energy consumption in the industrial sector and can partly be provided by solar thermal systems. To date, there has been little experience with solar heat plants for industrial ... -
Experimental Study of a Photovoltaic Direct Current Water Pumping System for Irrigation in Rural-Isolated Region of Arequipa, Peru
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)In the present experimental study, a photovoltaic (PV)-powered system in continuous current (4 kW) for the pumping of water in an isolated, rural agricultural zone in Arequipa—Peru was analyzed. A meteorological station ... -
Energy Efficiency and Insulation Thickness According to the Compactness Index Case of a Studio Apartment Under Saharan Weather Conditions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Financial energetic problems oblige citizens to reduce the energy consumption. Accordingly, the recent research showed that major financial economies can be optimally achieved, by introducing some passive measures. The ... -
Performance Evaluation of Combined Photovoltaic Thermal Water Cooling System for Hot Climate Regions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Solar electric power generation utilizing photovoltaic (PV) modules is associated with low electrical efficiency that substantially decreases as its surface temperature exceeds an appropriate limit, particularly in hot ... -
Evaluating the Accuracy of RANS Wind Flow Modeling Over Forested Terrain—Part 1: Canopy Model Validation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)This study uses the Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) equations to validate a canopy model by computing a fully developed wind flow within and above a horizontally homogeneous dense forest as in the work of Dalpé and ...