...Sunirmit Verma; Ranjan Das A novel combination of an earth air tunnel (EAT) and a sensible thermal storage-aided solar air heater has been proposed when the sensible storage medium is taken to be rocks filled within the air flow passage. Both transient and steady state models are presented...

...Moh Ali Hadj Ammar; Mohamed ElHadi Attia; Abdeldjalil Laouini; Ali Zine; Salhi Khelifa; Abdelkader Haris; Anil Kumar In this paper, experimental work has been presented to study the novel design of a solar crop dryer that includes an inverted absorber perforate type collector with forced airflow...

...Inderjot Kaur; Youssef Aider; Heejin Cho; Prashant Singh Moving packed-bed heat exchanger in concentrated solar power (CSP) plants involves heat transfer between heated falling particles and supercritical carbon dioxide. The overall effective thermal conductivity of the moving packed bed...

...Anthony C. Ozurumba; N. V. Ogueke; C. A. Madu For organometallic halide solar cells (OHSC), it is expected that their performance in hot climates is to be challenged by high operating temperature conditions typical of these regions. This study explores, for the first time, the performance...

... as a result of decreasing nanofluid concentration caused by nanoparticle deposition on the channel walls, while the pumping power was also decreased due to concentration loss. 1 Corresponding author. Email: hassansalem86.hs@gmail.com Email: ehab_mina@eng.asu.edu.eg Contributed by the Solar...

...Mohamed Salim Djenane; Seddik Hadji; Omar Touhami; Abdel Halim Zitouni This paper proposes an investigation of a novel design of receiver absorber tube (circular–trapezoidal shaped) for parabolic trough concentrator (PTC) system aiming at catching a part of the lost (reflected) solar rays due...

...Walid Ben Amara; Abdallah Bouabidi; Mouldi chrigui This study focuses on improving the thermal performance of a Solar Air Heater (SAH) using a single-pass spiral-shaped ducts. The SAH is designed and tested under prevailing weather conditions of Gabes,TUNISIA (33°52.8876' N,10°5.892' E...

...Seyyed Ali Sadat; Nicholas Vandewetering; Joshua M. Pearce Using bolts through the back of a solar photovoltaic (PV) module frames to attach them to racking is time consuming and awkward, so commercial PV installations use clamping technologies on the front. Conventional and proprietary clamps...

...Mohd Asjad Siddiqui This study offers a comprehensive assessment of the thermodynamic performance of a novel solar-based multigeneration system, which caters to the energy needs of a sustainable community by producing electricity, cooling, heating, and freshwater. The solar-based multigeneration...

...Tucker Farrell; Yue Cao; Frank Burkholder; Daniel Celvi; Christa Schreiber; Guangdong Zhu The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has been conducting exposure experiments on solar reflectors for over four decades. Thousands of mirror samples from over 100 suppliers have been exposed...

...Sohan Lal Sharma; Ajoy Debbarma The roughness geometry has been introduced to improve the rate of heat transfer in a solar air heater duct. In the current work, circular and triangular shape geometries are used as roughness elements in the rectangular channel to enhance the thermal performance...

...Dylan C. McCord; Elizabeth J. Gager; Kangjae Lee; Anthony H. McDaniel; Juan C. Nino; Jonathan R. Scheffe Synthesis of solar thermochemical hydrogen (STCH) production redox materials with engineered structures, for example, replica foams, can enable efficient heat and mass transport and are critical...

...Abdulmajeed Alghamdi; S. A. Sherif The cogeneration system described in this paper is constructed based on a solar-assisted double-effect absorption cogeneration cycle with an adjustable cooling-to-power ratio. As a proposed technique to benefit from the ability to adjust the cooling-to-power ratio...

...Faisal Altwijri; S. A. Sherif; Abdulmajeed Alghamdi This article proposes an innovative approach to improve the performance of solar cooling systems by utilizing a cascaded absorption cooling (CAC) system. This article also examines the viability of coupling an NH 3 –H 2 O absorption system...

...Fouad Haddad; Peiwen Li The entropy generation minimization principle is used as the criterion to optimize the flow and heat transfer of solar collectors and heat exchangers that use molten salts NaCl–KCl–MgCl 2 and KCl–MgCl 2 . The Gnielinski correlation for the Nusselt number versus Reynolds...

... that a circular mirror is amenable to an inflated polymer construction, makes this configuration promising for low-cost, low-concentration solar thermal applications. Email: timpanomatteo@gmail.com 1 Corresponding author. Email: tcooper@yorku.ca Contributed by the Solar Energy Division of ASME...

... collector’s superior performance is derived mainly from better geometry (smaller cosine losses), but the near-absence of atmospheric attenuation and the smaller receiver heat losses are also significant. Email: davidkbisset@gmail.com Contributed by Solar Energy Division of ASME for publication...

...Anand Kushwah; Anil Kumar; Manoj Kumar Gaur; Amit Pal In this study, experimental works were carried out in three different drying methods named heat exchanger-evacuated tube-assisted drying system (HE-ETADS), greenhouse solar dryer (GHSD), and open sun drying (OSD) to compare thin-layer drying...

... that the equivalent exergetic efficiency of power generation (ψ P,eqv ) is the most meaningful and accurate performance index for assessing the performance of multigeneration systems. Email: alghamdia@ufl.edu 1 Corresponding author. Email: sasherif@ufl.edu Contributed by the Solar Energy Division...

...W. Ross Rucker; Dunbar P. Birnie, III The expected annual energy output of vertical bifacial solar panel arrays was modeled with an eye on how array design attributes affect the output. We considered module height, cell density (single- or double-high racking), inter-row spacing, and inverter...