Journal of Solar Energy Engineering: Recent submissions
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Design and Characterization of a Novel Upward Flow Reactor for the Study of High-Temperature Thermal Reduction for Solar-Driven Processes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)The design and characterization of an upward flow reactor (UFR) coupled to a high flux solar simulator (HFSS) under vacuum is presented. The UFR was designed to rapidly heat solid samples with concentrated irradiation to ... -
Experimental and Computational Fluid Dynamics Study on Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in Triangular Passage Solar Air Heater of Different Configurations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)The fluid flow characteristics and heat transfer in triangular duct solar air heater (SAH) have been studied experimentally and numerically for Reynolds number range from 4000 to 18,000. In the present paper, three different ... -
Research on the Influence of Helical Strakes and Its Parameters on Dynamic Response of Platform of Floating Wind Turbine Based on Optimization Method of Orthogonal Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)The stability of platform is the most fundamental guarantee for the safe operation of floating wind turbine in complex marine environment. The helical strakes used on spar platform in the traditional oil industry are useful ... -
The Effect of Local Meteorological Conditions on the Optimal Tilt Angle of a Solar Energy Collector—A Case Study in Poland
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)This study compares the potential annual energy absorption of a flat-plate solar collector at different tilt angles in Poland. Optimal tilt angles were tested in three variants: over the course of the year, in fall/winter ... -
Design and Comparison of Solar Thermal Oilfield Steam Production System Plans
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Parabolic trough solar concentrating technology is a new and clean way to replace the conventional fossil fuel technology to generate steam for heavy oil recovery in oilfield. A computational model was constructed with ... -
Parametric Trough Solar Collector With Commercial Evacuated Receiver: Performance Comparison at Plant Level
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)A new anidolic parametric trough solar collector (PmTC) having 8.12 m net width aperture has been recently proposed for a commercial evacuated receiver tube with an absorber diameter of 70 mm. Since the collector was ... -
Analytical Characteristic Equation of N Identical Evacuated Tubular Collectors Integrated Double Slope Solar Still
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)In this paper, analytical expression for characteristic equation of double slope solar still (DS) included with series connected N identical evacuated tubular collectors (N-ETC-DS) has been developed. The derivation is ... -
Fast Estimation of the Damage Equivalent Load in Blade Geometry Multidisciplinar Optimization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Designing blade geometry as a multidisciplinary optimization presents important challenges due to the increment in the number of design variables and computational cost of calculating the constraints and objective function. ... -
Numerical Study on Conjugated Laminar Mixed Convection of Alumina/Water Nanofluid Flow, Heat Transfer, and Entropy Generation Within a Tube-on-Sheet Flat Plate Solar Collector
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)In this research, an inclined three-dimensional nanofluid-based tube-on-sheet flat plate solar collector (FPSC) working under laminar conjugated mixed convection heat transfer is numerically modeled. The working fluid is ... -
Correlation Between Transmittance and LWIR Apparent Emissivity of Soda-Lime Glass During Accelerated Aging Test for Solar Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)In solar power plants, both in photovoltaic (PV) and concentrated ones, the electrical output is a key parameter for the development of solar energy. To ensure relevant predictability of electrical output, the durability ... -
10-MW Wind Turbine Performance Under Pitching and Yawing Motion
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)The possibility of a wind turbine entering vortex ring state (VRS) during pitching oscillations is explored in this paper. The work first validated the employed computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method, and continued with ... -
Optical Modeling and Analysis of the First Moroccan Linear Fresnel Solar Collector Prototype
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Recently, linear Fresnel reflectors (LFR) arouse an increasing interest by the scientific and industrial community and have had a really fast development in the domain of concentrated solar power (CSP). LFR is considered ... -
The Dynamic Behavior of Once-Through Direct Steam Generation Parabolic Trough Solar Collector Row Under Moving Shadow Conditions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Compared with recirculation and injection modes, once-through direct steam generation (DSG) parabolic troughs are simpler to construct and require the lowest investment. However, the heat transfer fluid (HTF) in once-through ... -
Thermal Performance and Operation of a Solar Tubular Receiver With CO2 as the Heat Transfer Fluid
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)A high-temperature, high-pressure solar receiver was designed as part of the advanced thermal energy storage project carried out in collaboration with Abengoa Solar NT at CSIRO Energy Centre in Newcastle, Australia, with ... -
Assessing the Maximum Stability of the Nonconvective Zone in a Salinity-Gradient Solar Pond
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)The quality of the stability of the nonconvective zone of a salinity-gradient solar pond (SGSP) is investigated for an operating protocol in which the flushing procedure exactly compensates for evaporation losses from the ... -
On the Spatio-Temporal End-User Energy Demands of a Dense Urban Environment
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Buildings in major metropolitan centers face increased peak electrical load during the warm season, especially during extreme heat events. City-wide, the increased demand for space cooling can stress the grid, increasing ... -
Integration of a Pressurized-Air Solar Receiver Array to a Gas Turbine Power Cycle for Solar Tower Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)The thermal performance of an array of pressurized-air solar receiver modules integrated to a gas turbine power cycle is analyzed for a simple Brayton cycle (BC), recuperated Brayton cycle (RC), and combined Brayton–Rankine ... -
Determination of Optimum Tilt Angle for Different Photovoltaic Technologies Considering Ambient Conditions: A Case Study for Burdur, Turkey
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)This study presents a numerical approach to calculate the optimum photovoltaic (PV) tilt angle by considering the three different PV technologies (monocrystalline, polycrystalline, and thin film). This analysis focuses on ... -
An Experimental Performance Evaluation of a Cold-Region Photovoltaic System With Tracking
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)A grid-connected dual-axis tracking photovoltaic (PV) system was installed in the Upper Midwest of the U.S., defined as a cold region, and then evaluated and monitored for a 1 year period. This system serves as a real-world ... -
A Three-Dimensional Comprehensive Numerical Investigation of Different Operating Parameters on the Performance of a Photovoltaic Thermal System With Pancake Collector
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Performance of photovoltaic (PV) module decreases significantly with increasing cell temperature due to its overheating. Photovoltaic thermal (PVT) is an optimized technology that facilitates effective removal and utilization ...