Progress in heat transfer research for high-temperature solar thermal applications

W Lipiński, E Abbasi-Shavazi, J Chen… - Applied Thermal …, 2021 - Elsevier
High-temperature solar thermal energy systems make use of concentrated solar radiation to
generate electricity, produce chemical fuels, and drive energy-intensive processing of …

Heat transfer modelling in Discrete Element Method (DEM)-based simulations of thermal processes: Theory and model development

Z Peng, E Doroodchi, B Moghtaderi - Progress in Energy and Combustion …, 2020 - Elsevier
Over the past decade, DEM-based simulation has become a promising alternative to
physical measurements of thermal particulate systems. Despite their rapid advancement and …

100 years of scaling up fluidized bed and circulating fluidized bed reactors

JW Chew, WCQ LaMarche, RA Cocco - Powder Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
This year, 2022, we celebrate the 100-year anniversary of the commercialization of the
fluidized bed reactor. In those years, many new processes have been developed, with many …

A comprehensive review on solid particle receivers of concentrated solar power

K Jiang, X Du, Y Kong, C Xu, X Ju - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2019 - Elsevier
The receiver is a key component of a concentrated solar thermal power generation system.
At present, molten salt is typically used for both heat absorption and as a thermal energy …

A review study on the modeling of high-temperature solar thermal collector systems

AA Hachicha, BAA Yousef, Z Said… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2019 - Elsevier
Concentrated solar power technologies are gaining more attention in the last two decades in
order to replace the conventional power technologies and reduce their environmental …

Solid particle solar receivers in the next‐generation concentrated solar power plant

F Nie, F Bai, Z Wang, X Li, R Yang - EcoMat, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Solid particles are generally considered to be the most suitable heat transfer fluid (HTF) and
thermal energy storage (TES) materials for the next‐generation concentrated solar power …

Technologies and fundamentals of waste heat recovery from high-temperature solid granular materials

Z Cheng, Z Tan, Z Guo, J Yang, Q Wang - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Large amounts of high-temperature solid granular (HTSG) materials are produced
throughout the world in metallurgy and building materials industries whose activities are …

Waste heat recovery from high-temperature solid granular materials: Energy challenges and opportunities

Z Cheng, Z Guo, Z Tan, J Yang, Q Wang - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2019 - Elsevier
Large amounts of high-temperature solid granular (HTSG) materials, for example iron-ore
sinters, cement, coke and slags are produced throughout the world in metallurgy and …

Discrete element modeling of a particle heater for energy storage systems

J Schirck, Z Ma, A Morris - Powder Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
A heater where particles fall under gravity and flow over a series of hot angled surfaces is
simulated. The conductive, convective, and interphase heat transfer are simulated for all …

An enhanced correlation for gas-particle heat and mass transfer in packed and fluidized bed reactors

LT Zhu, YX Liu, ZH Luo - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Particle-resolved (PR) high-fidelity simulations, eg, direct numerical simulation
(DNS), have emerged as a powerful tool to precisely capture the full details of complex fluid …