Journal of Solar Energy Engineering: Recent submissions
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Thermocline Bed Properties for Deformation Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)Thermocline tanks have been considered as an alternative to traditional twotank molten salt thermal storage in concentrating solar power systems due to their potential for cost reduction. One concern for thermocline usage ... -
Fast Pyrolysis of Biomass Pellets Using Concentrated Solar Radiation: A Numerical Study
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)Since the 1990s, mountain pine beetles have infested mature pine trees in the forests of western North America. Fast pyrolysis is an encouraging method to convert the beetle killed pine trees into biooils. In this study, ... -
Design Optimization of Shore Based Low Temperature Thermal Desalination System Utilizing the Ocean Thermal Energy
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)A model for calculation and optimization of seawater desalination process is presented. In this process, temperature difference between the upper and the lower strata of the ocean is utilized in producing fresh water, by ... -
Modeling of an Indirect Solar Assisted Heat Pump System for a High Performance Residential House
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)The combination of solar thermal and heat pump systems as a single solar assisted heat pump (SAHP) system can significantly reduce residential energy consumption in Canada. As a part of Team Ontario's efforts to develop a ... -
The Application of Novel Platinum Reinforced Tin Silver Copper Solder to Bifacial Photovoltaic Module for Improvement of Yield and Reliability
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)The characteristics of solder joints between the busbars of solar cells and copper ribbons can affect the performance of a photovoltaic (PV) module significantly. The resistivity of the joints and the intermetallic compound ... -
Design and Testing of a New Small Wind Turbine Blade
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)A small wind turbine blade was designed using blade element momentum (BEM) method for a three bladed, fixed pitch 1 kW horizontal axis wind turbine. The new blades were fabricated, fit to a Bergey XL 1.0 turbine, and ... -
Coupled Experimental Study and Thermodynamic Modeling of Melting Point and Thermal Stability of Li2CO3 Na2CO3 K2CO3 Based Salts
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)Nitrate based salts have application as a heat transfer fluid and thermal energy storage media in solar field installations and are normally used from 200 آ°C up to maximum temperatures of ∼550 آ°C. Molten K2CO3Na2CO3Li2CO3 ... -
Water Cooling Method to Improve the Performance of Field Mounted, Insulated, and Concentrating Photovoltaic Modules
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)The installation rate of crystalline silicon photovoltaic (PV) modules worldwide is at an alltime high and is projected to continue to grow as the cost of PV technology is reduced. It is important to note that PV power ... -
Estimation and Applications of Clear Sky Global Horizontal Irradiance at the Equator
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)We analyze Singapore global horizontal irradiance (GHI) measurements and propose a clear sky GHI model for equatorial regions. The empirical formulation simplifies the atmosphere radiative transfer to a single exponential ... -
Investigation of a Hybrid Photovoltaic Biomass System With Energy Storage Options
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)A hybrid photovoltaic (PV)biomass system with energy storage options is investigated based on energy and exergy analyses. The hybrid system consists of a photovoltaic system, an electrolyser, and a biomass gasifier, which ... -
Intercomparison of Long Term Performance Prediction Methods for a Flat Plate Domestic Solar Water Heating System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)Longterm performance estimations were performed on a nonstandard domestic solar water heating system by fChart, interactive FChart software, and د†آ¯,fChart methods. Results of estimations were compared to gain insight of ... -
Investigation on Operating Processes for a New Solar Cooling Cogeneration Plant
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)Some commercial units and industries need more amount of cooling than the power such as cold storage, shopping complex, etc. In this work, a new cooling cogeneration cycle (Srinivas cycle) has been proposed and solved to ... -
Energy Efficient Two Phase Microcooler Design for a Concentrated Photovoltaic Triple Junction Cell
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)The potential application of an R134acooled twophase microcooler for thermal management of a triple junction solar cell (CPV), under concentration of 2000 suns, is presented. An analytical model for the triplejunction solar ... -
Actuator Disk Theory—Steady and Unsteady Models
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)In this paper, the classical work on steady actuator disk theory is recalled and the interpretation of the flow as the continuous shedding of vortex rings of constant strength that causes the slip stream is shown to be ... -
Techniques to Measure Solar Flux Density Distribution on Large Scale Receivers
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)Flux density measurement applied to central receiver systems delivers the spatial distribution of the concentrated solar radiation on the receiver aperture, measures receiver input power, and monitors and might control ... -
Fluidized Bed Technology for Concentrating Solar Power With Thermal Energy Storage
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)A generalized modeling method is introduced and used to evaluate thermal energy storage (TES) performance. The method describes TES performance metrics in terms of three efficiencies: firstlaw efficiency, secondlaw efficiency, ... -
Analysis of a Hybrid PV/T Concept Based on Wavelength Selective Mirror Films
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)The technical performance of a nontracking hybrid PV/T concept that uses a wavelength selective film is modeled. The wavelength selective film is coupled with a compound parabolic concentrator (CPC) to reflect and concentrate ... -
Energy Analysis of Solar Home Lighting System With Microcontroller Based Charge Controller
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)In this paper, a solar powered home lighting system in the Electrical Engineering Department of Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Nagpur is analyzed for energy using a personal computer simulation program ... -
Syngas and Hydrogen Production by Cyclic Redox of ZrO2 Supported CeO2 in a Volumetric Receiver Reactor
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)In order to utilize sustainable solar energy, cyclic operations of syngas production by methane reforming (reduction) and subsequent hydrogen production by water splitting (oxidation) were performed by using simulated ... -
Experiments on Natural Convective Solar Thermal Achieved by Supercritical CO2/Dimethyl Ether Mixture Fluid
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)The current study proposed an experimental investigation into the basic characteristics of solar thermal conversion using supercritical CO2–dimethyl ether (DME) natural convection. The main goals are to reduce the operation ...