Journal of Solar Energy Engineering: Recent submissions
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A Perspective of Energy Codes and Regulations for the Buildings of the Future
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Today's building energy codes focus on prescriptive requirements for features of buildings that are directly controlled by design and construction teams and verifiable by municipal inspectors. Although these code requirements ... -
The Changing Socioeconomic Context of Buildings
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)This paper examines demographic, economic, and sociotechnical trends to the year 2050 that will shape future demand for buildings. It uses historical data and projections from the United Nations and other authoritative ... -
Performance Comparison and Model Validation of a Conical Solar Reflector and a Linear Fresnel Concentrator
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)Comparative performance assessment and model validation of the linear Fresnel concentrator (LFC) and the conical solar reflector (CSR) systems were performed under identical operating and climatic conditions. This paper ... -
Online Sequential Learning of Neural Networks in Solar Radiation Modeling Using Hybrid Bayesian Hierarchical Approach
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Special Issue on Buildings of the Future: Notes From Guest Editors
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View Factors to Grounds of Photovoltaic Collectors
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)Ground reflected radiation is one component of the global radiation on photovoltaic collectors in a solar field. This component depends on the view factor of the collector to ground, hence depends on the relative position ... -
A Novel Portable Device to Measure Transmittance and Reflectance of Parabolic Trough Receiver Tubes in the Field
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)The performance of parabolic trough (PT) receiver tubes (RTs) has a direct impact on concentrated solar power (CSP) plant production. As a result, one major need of operation and maintenance (O&M) in operating plants ... -
Measuring the Effect of Vegetated Roofs on the Performance of Photovoltaic Panels in a Combined System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)Experiments were conducted in summer using two identical photovoltaic (PV) panels at two heights using three roofing types: white, black, and green (vegetated). For experiments at an 18 cm height, the mean power output of ... -
Influence of Green Roofs on Early Morning Mixing Layer Depths in Mexico City
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Numbering-Up of Microscale Devices for Megawatt-Scale Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Concentrating Solar Power Receivers
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)Concentrated solar power (CSP) plants have the potential to reduce the consumption of nonrenewable resources and greenhouse gas emissions in electricity production. In CSP systems, a field of heliostats focuses solar ... -
Cost Optimum Parameters for Rock Bed Thermal Storage at 550–600 °C: A Parametric Study
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)A major advantage of concentrating solar power (CSP) plants is their ability to store thermal energy at a cost far lower than that of current battery technologies. A recent techno-economic study found that packed rock bed ... -
Evaluation of Thermo-Active Foundations for Heating and Cooling Residential Buildings
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)The application of thermo-active foundation (TAF) systems to heat and cool residential buildings is evaluated in this paper. First, a transient three-dimensional finite difference numerical model is developed for the ... -
Thermal Performance of the U-Tube Solar Collector Using Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation
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View Factors of Flat Solar Collectors Array in Flat, Inclined, and Step-Like Solar Fields
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)Solar radiation consists of direct beam, sky diffuse, and reflected radiations from the ground and adjacent surfaces. The amount of diffuse radiation falling on solar collector depends on the view factor of the collector ... -
A Prescribed-Wake Vortex Lattice Method for Preliminary Design of Co-Axial, Dual-Rotor Wind Turbines
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Phase Change Material For Solar Thermal Energy Storage In Buildings: Numerical Study
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)Thermal storage plays a major role in a wide variety of industrial, commercial, and residential applications when there is a mismatch between the offer and the claim of energy. In this paper, we study numerically the ... -
Hollow Blades for Small Wind Turbines Operating at High Altitudes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)Since the air density reduces as altitude increases, operation of small wind turbines (SWTs), which usually have no pitch adjustment, remains challenging at high altitudes due largely to the reduction of starting aerodynamic ... -
A Simple Parameter Estimation Approach to Modeling of Photovoltaic Modules Based on Datasheet Values
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Horizontal Inlets of Water Storage Tanks With Low Disturbance of Stratification
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)Solar combi-storages are used in many countries for storing solar heat for space heating and domestic hot water (DHW) in one device. When a combi-storage is used in combination with a heat pump, the temperature stratification ... -
Validation of Direct Beam Irradiance Measurements From Rotating Shadowband Irradiometers in a Region With Different Atmospheric Conditions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)Rotating shadowband irradiometers (RSIs) are a common type of radiation sensors for measurement of direct normal irradiance (DNI) at remote sites where daily maintenance of the instruments is not feasible or practicable. ...