Large-scale solar thermal systems are a cost-efficient technology to provide renewable heat.
The rapid market growth in the last decade has been concentrated on a small number of …

It is well known that concentrating solar power and concentrating photovoltaic technologies
require high accuracy and high precision solar tracking systems in order to achieve greater …

This paper presents an overview of energy storage in renewable energy systems. In fact,
energy storage is a dominant factor in the integration of renewable sources, playing a …

Highly regarded for its accessibility and focus on practical applications, Control Systems
Engineering offers students a comprehensive introduction to the design and analysis of …

This paper aims at providing a state-of-the-art review of an increasingly important class of
joining technologies called solid-state (SS) welding, as compared to more conventional …

Abstract Effect of solar incidence angle was analyzed in order to accurately simulate the
heat flux distribution around the absorber tube outer surface. Helical screw-tape inserts was …

This work develops digital entities of a commercial Fresnel Solar Collector (FSC) installed in
an absorption cooling plant. The objective is to create and validate models that describe the …

The paper proposes the formulation of a single-task robot (ST), single-robot task (SR), time-
extended assignment (TA), multi-robot task allocation (MRTA) problem with multiple …

Modern agriculture is nowadays subject to regulations in terms of quality and environmental
impact and thus it is a field where the application of automatic control techniques has …

Direct steam generation (DSG) in parabolic-trough collectors (PTC) is one of the most
attractive technologies in concentrated solar power plants. Its appeal stems from its ability to …