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 …

Progress in beam-down solar concentrating systems

E Bellos - Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Concentrating solar technologies are promising renewable energy systems for exploiting
incident beam solar irradiation with high exergy efficiency values. These systems provide …

Physical specifications of MHD mixed convective of Ostwald-de Waele nanofluids in a vented-cavity with inner elliptic cylinder

W Jamshed, MR Eid, SM Hussain… - … Communications in Heat …, 2022 - Elsevier
The present work investigates heat transmission and stable MHD (magneto-hydrodynamic)
mixed convective flowing in a ventilated porous enclosed space with a heated elliptic inner …

Solar parabolic dish collector for concentrated solar thermal systems: a review and recommendations

KH Kumar, AM Daabo, MK Karmakar… - Environmental Science and …, 2022 - Springer
Energy demand in the present scenario is rising to meet the increasing demands of energy
usage. On the other hand, the use for renewable energy sources now becomes essential to …

[HTML][HTML] A review on design parameters and specifications of parabolic solar dish Stirling systems and their applications

MZ Malik, PH Shaikh, S Zhang, AA Lashari, ZH Leghari… - Energy Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
The ever-increasing energy demand around the world has attracted research efforts to
transform renewable energy sources efficiently. This study reports the design parameters of …

[HTML][HTML] Optical and thermal analysis of different cavity receiver designs for solar dish concentrators

E Bellos, E Bousi, C Tzivanidis, S Pavlovic - Energy Conversion and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Cavity receivers are the most usual design in solar dish concentrators in order to achieve
high thermal performance. The objective of this work is the investigation of five different …

Pathways for low carbon hydrogen production from integrated hydrocarbon reforming and water electrolysis for oil and gas exporting countries

L Onwuemezie, HG Darabkhani… - … Energy Technologies and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Integrated hydrocarbon reforming processes with H 2 O electrolysis for H 2 production have
been developed to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in oil and gas exporting …

An experimental investigation on thermal and optical analysis of cylindrical and conical cavity copper tube receivers design for solar dish concentrator

A Hassan, C Quanfang, S Abbas, W Lu, L Youming - Renewable Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
The receiver is crucial in converting concentrated solar radiation to thermal energy in a solar
parabolic dish collector. The most popular type of receiver is a cavity receiver, which …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental investigation of the thermal efficiency of a new cavity receiver design for concentrator solar technology

Q Alkhalaf, D Lee, R Kumar, S Thapa, AR Singh… - Case Studies in Thermal …, 2024 - Elsevier
The most popular design for solar energy receivers that achieves great thermal performance
is a cavity receiver. This study experimentally compared two novel shapes of cavity …

Effect of the concentration ratio on the thermal performance of a conical cavity tube receiver for a solar parabolic dish concentrator system

S Abbas, Y Yuan, A Hassan, J Zhou, A Ahmed… - Applied Thermal …, 2023 - Elsevier
The proper design of the parabolic dish concentrator system and the accurate selection of
variable operating parameters are critical in solar energy conversion and utilization. This …