A review on solar‐assisted gas turbines

MH Ahmadi, M Alhuyi Nazari… - Energy Science & …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The thermal energy of the sun can be used for electricity generation. Solar thermal energy
can be applied with fossil fuels or independently in order to reduce the cost of generated …

Recent advances in gas/steam power cycles for concentrating solar power

A Sharma, AK Shukla, O Singh… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Nowadays, solar energy is attempted being utilised extensively to generate electrical power.
Solar energy can be employed independently or with fossil fuels to reduce CO2 emission …

Experimental and numerical investigation on the optical and thermal performance of solar parabolic dish and corrugated spiral cavity receiver

S Pavlovic, AM Daabo, E Bellos, V Stefanovic… - Journal of cleaner …, 2017 - Elsevier
A low cost solar collector with a dish reflector and spiral absorber is examined in this work.
This collector is investigated experimentally and numerically with a developed thermal …

Thermodynamic performance of a radial-inflow turbine for ocean thermal energy conversion using ammonia

C Zhang, Z Wu, J Wang, C Ding, T Gao, Y Chen - Renewable Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Aiming at the high-efficiency OTEC application, a 30 kW radial-inflow turbine using ammonia
was constructed via the one-dimensional design. In addition, a 3D CFD simulation was …

Thirteen vital factors for micro-scale radial turbine vane's design of geo-solar-powered Brayton cycle applications

AM Daabo, A Alkhabbaz, SS Ibrahim, H Hamzah… - Energy Conversion and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The ever-elevating importance of turbines makes enhancing their performance a crucial
point. In most cases, the required performance can be achieved by improving the turbine's …

Global parameter optimization and criterion formula of supercritical carbon dioxide Brayton cycle with recompression

WL Cheng, WX Huang, YL Nian - Energy Conversion and Management, 2017 - Elsevier
Supercritical carbon dioxide (S-CO 2) Brayton cycle has caught the attention in many fields,
especially the field of nuclear reactors. The recompression cycle is considered to be one of …

[HTML][HTML] A comparative analysis between small-scale recuperated parallel-flow Brayton cycles

CC Cockcroft, WG Le Roux - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2025 - Elsevier
Parallel-flow Brayton cycles developed from commercial turbochargers can present
feasibility for providing electricity to regions with poor power infrastructure. To increase the …

Enhancing energo-exergo-economic performance of Kalina cycle for low-to high-grade waste heat recovery: Design and optimization through deep learning methods

MJ Dehghani - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
The Kalina cycle has proven to be a reliable bottoming cycle for low-grade waste heat
recovery. However, compared with other recovery cycles (eg the Rankine cycle), it is …

Off-design performance prediction of radial turbines operating with ideal and real working fluids

F Alshammari, A Karvountzis-Kontakiotis… - Energy Conversion and …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper outlines a novel meanline off-design model to predict the performance
characteristics of a radial inflow turbine that operates with ideal and real working fluids …

A thermodynamic analysis of a solar hybrid coal-based direct-fired supercritical carbon dioxide power cycle

C Xu, T **n, X Li, S Li, Y Sun, W Liu, Y Yang - Energy conversion and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Efficient utilization of coal for power generation with carbon capture as well as development
of solar hybrid system are being aggressively researched currently. To advance the …