Journal of Solar Energy Engineering: Recent submissions
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Intelligent Fault Tolerant Energy Management System With Layered Architecture for a Photovoltaic Power Plant
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Increasing of renewable power plants has raised the need for intelligent energy management systems (EMSs). The aim of management system is to reduce energy absorbed from fossil sources. In this paper a layered behavioral ... -
Modeling the Energy Yield Enhancement From a Wind Turbine at a Deep Offshore Low Wind Site Through Combined Power and Thermocline Energy Production
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)This paper presents steadystate performance modeling and analysis of a novel wind powered system that concurrently exploits thermocline thermal energy through deep sea water extraction in conjunction with offshore wind ... -
Thermo Economic Optimization of Solar CCHP Using Both Genetic and Particle Swarm Algorithms
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)A combined cooling, heating and power generation (CCHP) system is modeled and optimized. The heat demand in this plant can provide by prime mover, backup boiler, and solar panels. Both the genetic algorithm (GA) and particle ... -
Preparation and Investigation of p GaAs/n Cd1 xZnxS1 yTey Heterojunctions Deposited by Electrochemical Deposition
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)Anisotype heterojunctions of pGaAs/nCd1xZnxS1yTey have been fabricated by preparing ntype Cd1xZnxS1yTey thin films onto pGaAs single crystal wafers using an electrochemical deposition method. The voltammetric behavior of ... -
On the Use of Site Data to Define Extreme Turbulence Conditions for Wind Turbine Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)In wind turbine design, external conditions to be considered depend on the intended site for the planned installation. Wind turbine classes, defined in terms of wind speed and turbulence parameters, cover most sites and ... -
A New Approach for Fabricating Low Cost DSSC by Using Carbon Ink From Inkjet Printer and Its Improvement Efficiency by Depositing Metal Bridge Between Titanium Dioxide Particles
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)We report the fabrication of a dyesensitized solar cell (DSSC) using lowcost materials (carbon ink from an inkjet printer coated on glass as the counter electrode) and made by a combination of spray deposition and doctor ... -
Zero Emission Temporary Habitation: A Passive Container House Acclimatized by Geothermal Water
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)A container mobile housing system denominated ZETHa (zero energy temporary habitation) is acclimatized by water circulation inside the external walls of the building. A general design of the building has presented and ... -
Energetic Comparison of Linear Fresnel and Parabolic Trough Collector Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)In recent years, linear Fresnel (LF) collector systems have been developed as a technical alternative to parabolic trough (PT) collector systems. While in the past, LF systems focused on lowand mediumtemperature applications, ... -
Reduction of Voltage Harmonics in Solar Photovoltaic fed Inverter of Single Phase Stand Alone Power System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)In this paper, an optimal harmonic stepped waveform (OHSW) method is proposed to reduce the voltage harmonics available at the output of solar photovoltaic (SPV) fed fifteen level cascaded multilevel inverter (CMLI). This ... -
Study of Economic Feasibility to Recharge Different Types of Electric Vehicles With Photovoltaic Solar Panels
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)The article presents an economical study of the use of electric vehicles (Evs) in terms of years of amortization money saved and cost and expenses, etc. It has been compared combustion vehicles with the electric counterparts ... -
Allocation and Sizing of Dispersed Photovoltaic Generation in Diesel Isolated Electrical Systems Using an Analytical Approach
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)This paper proposes an analytical methodology to allocate and size active power photovoltaic generation (PVG) units with embedded DC/AC inverter (PVGI) to be integrated as concentrated or dispersed generation in isolated ... -
Efficient Solar Desalination System Using Humidification/Dehumidification Process
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)An innovative solar desalination system is successfully designed, manufactured, and experimentally tested at Makkah, 21.4 degN. The system consists of 1.15 m2 flatplate collector as a heat source and a desalination unit. ... -
Performance of the Merced Demonstration XCPC Collector and Double Effect Chiller
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)A solar thermal cooling system using novel nontracking external compound parabolic concentrators (XCPC) has been built at the University of California, Merced and operated for two cooling seasons. Its performance in providing ... -
Flexural Fatigue of Unbalanced Glass Carbon Hybrid Composites
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)Unbalanced composite layups with bendtwist coupling show potential for aeroelastic tailoring in wind turbine blades. Before these materials can be implemented, their responses to long term cyclic loading must be considered. ... -
Solar Assisted Heat Pump Systems: A Review of Existing Studies and Their Applicability to the Canadian Residential Sector
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)Combining solar thermal collectors and heat pumps into a single solarassisted heat pump (SAHP) system is a promising technology for offsetting domestic hot water (DHW), spaceheating, and cooling loads more efficiently. ... -
Objectives and Constraints for Wind Turbine Optimization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)Efficient extraction of wind energy is a complex, multidisciplinary process. This paper examines common objectives used in wind turbine optimization problems. The focus is not on the specific optimized designs, but rather ... -
Analysis of a New Compound Parabolic Concentrator Based Solar Collector Designed for Methanol Reforming
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)Methanol reforming is a wellknown method of producing hydrogen for hydrogenbased fuel cells. Since methanol reforming is an endothermic process, requiring an energy input, it is possible to use this reaction as a way to ... -
Study the Combination of Photovoltaic Panels With Different Auxiliary Systems in Grid Connected Condition
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)This study considers the effect of PV panel cost on the use of auxiliary power systems (APSs) in the hybrid power generation system for gridconnected condition. Using the auxiliary power systems along with the PV panels ... -
Cobalt Sulphate as an Alternative Counter Electrode Material in Dye Sensitized Solar Cells
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)Dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) have become an attractive and cheap device for the conversion of solar light into electrical energy. The glass substrate coated with platinum is widely used as a counter electrode because ... -
Performance of a 100 kWth Concentrated Solar Beam Down Optical Experiment
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)An analysis of the beam down optical experiment (BDOE) performance with full concentration is presented. The analysis is based on radiation flux distribution data taken on Mar. 21st, 2011 using an opticalthermal flux ...