Solar simulators are used to test components and systems under controlled and repeatable
conditions, often in locations with unsuitable insolation for outdoor testing. The growth in …

As solar power usage is increasing nowadays, performance tests have become one of the
most important topics in order to guarantee the security of photovoltaic tools. For …

A subregular solution thermodynamic model was employed to calculate the stacking fault
energy (SFE) in Fe–Mn–Al–C–Si steels with contents of carbon 0.2–1.6 wt.%, manganese 1 …

With growing interest in the use of solar thermal applications to produce renewable and
sustainable energy, coupled with the remarkable progress being made in nanotechnology …

A high flux solar simulator for indoor performance assessment of systems in solar thermal,
thermochemical and high concentration photovoltaic research offers repeatability under …

A concentrating solar power system is presented which uses hillside mounted heliostats to
direct sunlight into a volumetric absorption molten salt receiver with integral storage. The …

When the availability of solar radiation is not enough to develop experimental investigation
in the field of concentrating solar energy, solar simulators are a widely employed solution …

To make a good compromise between the flux uniformity and the high peak flux of the light
spot, a new high-flux solar simulator (HFSS) with the continuously adjustable input power of …

The effects of using aqueous nanofluids containing covalently functionalized graphene
nanoplatelets with triethanolamine (TEA-GNPs) as novel working fluids on the thermal …

This work details a methodology to characterize the performance of solar thermal and
photovoltaic thermal (PVT) collectors using an indoor solar simulator. In this study, several …