Solar thermal energy technologies and its applications for process heating and power generation–A review

KR Kumar, NVVK Chaitanya, NS Kumar - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
The industrial sector accounts for more than 54% of the total energy produced in the world
with a predicted annual growth of 1.2%. Currently, most of the industrial sectors use fossil …

Identification of natural rocks as storage materials in thermal energy storage (TES) system of concentrated solar power (CSP) plants–A review

K El Alami, M Asbik, H Agalit - Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2020 - Elsevier
Thermal energy storage (TES) system is a decisive technology for handling intermittent
problems, and ensuring the dispatchability of electrical energy from concentrated solar …

Performance evaluation of wind-solar-hydrogen system for renewable energy generation and green hydrogen generation and storage: Energy, exergy, economic, and …

L Liu, R Zhai, Y Hu - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
This study presents an assessment of the energy, exergy, economic, and environmental
aspects of a novel wind-solar-hydrogen multi-energy supply (WSH-MES) system. The …

SolarPILOT: A power tower solar field layout and characterization tool

MJ Wagner, T Wendelin - Solar Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper develops and demonstrates a new Solar Power tower Integrated Layout and
Optimization Tool (SolarPILOT). The tool uses the analytical flux image Hermite series …

Supercritical carbon dioxide power cycle design and configuration optimization to minimize levelized cost of energy of molten salt power towers operating at 650 C

T Neises, C Turchi - Solar Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
This analysis investigates the design, cost, and performance of the simple, recompression,
and partial-cooling configurations of the supercritical carbon dioxide power cycle integrated …

[HTML][HTML] Integration of solar thermal and photovoltaic, wind, and battery energy storage through AI in NEOM city

A Boretti - Energy and AI, 2021 - Elsevier
NEOM is a “New Future” city powered by renewable energy only, where solar photovoltaic,
wind, solar thermal, and battery energy storage will supply all the energy needed to match …

Multi-objective optimization of hybrid CSP+ PV system using genetic algorithm

AR Starke, JM Cardemil, R Escobar, S Colle - Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Renewable energy has experienced a significant growth on its rate of deployment as a
clean and competitive alternative for conventional power sources. The reduction on the …

Thermodynamic analysis of a sorption-enhanced gasification process of municipal solid waste, integrated with concentrated solar power and thermal energy storage …

S Khosravi, E Neshat, RK Saray - Renewable Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
A system of coupled CO 2 capture and gasification has led to a new concept entitled
sorption-enhanced gasification (SEG) which can increase H 2 concentration in the syngas …

A computationally efficient method for the design of the heliostat field for solar power tower plant

SM Besarati, DY Goswami - Renewable energy, 2014 - Elsevier
A number of codes have been developed in order to optimize the heliostat field layout for
solar power tower plants. These codes are intended to improve calculation accuracy as well …

Cost and performance analysis of concentrating solar power systems with integrated latent thermal energy storage

K Nithyanandam, R Pitchumani - Energy, 2014 - Elsevier
Integrating TES (thermal energy storage) in a CSP (concentrating solar power) plant allows
for continuous operation even during times when solar irradiation is not available, thus …