Recent advances, challenges, and prospects in solar dish collectors: Designs, applications, and optimization frameworks

H Allouhi, A Allouhi, MS Buker, S Zafar… - Solar Energy Materials and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The use of solar powered dish-Stirling engines to convert thermal energy into electricity is a
promising and renewable alternative in reducing the fossil fuel consumption. However …

Performance evaluation of a stand-alone solar dish Stirling system for power generation suitable for off-grid rural electrification

Y Kadri, HH Abdallah - Energy Conversion and Management, 2016 - Elsevier
The development of green power generation such as solar systems that have become a
great interest for several countries especially for Tunisia as it presents a significant solar …

Integrated optical and thermal model to investigate the performance of a solar parabolic dish collector coupled with a cavity receiver

A Rajan, KS Reddy - Renewable Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The cavity receiver is the most promising type of receiver, which drops the heat loss and
converts the incoming concentrated radiation to useful energy. In this work, the coupled …

Modelling of a Stirling engine with parabolic dish for thermal to electric conversion of solar energy

G Barreto, P Canhoto - Energy Conversion and Management, 2017 - Elsevier
Stirling engines with parabolic dish for thermal to electric conversion of solar energy is one
of the most promising solutions of renewable energy technologies in order to reduce the …

Novel techniques to enhance the performance of Stirling engines integrated with solar systems

SA Khashan, H Al-Oqla - Renewable Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, we present three novel techniques for enhancing Stirling engines (SE).
Conventional SE regenerators are replaced with Phase-Change material (PCM) …

Effects of receiver parameters on the optical performance of a fixed-focus Fresnel lens solar concentrator/cavity receiver system in solar cooker

H Wang, J Huang, M Song, J Yan - Applied energy, 2019 - Elsevier
To facilitate building integration with solar cooker for household, a solar cooker based on a
fixed-focus Fresnel lens solar concentrator/cavity receiver system was proposed. To …

A numerical study on optical and thermodynamic characteristics of a spherical cavity receiver

Z Si-Quan, L **
rapidly in recent years owing to its compact structure and high collecting efficiency. This …

Combined optics and heat transfer numerical model of a solar conical receiver with built-in helical pipe

Y Zhang, H **ao, C Zou, Q Falcoz, P Neveu - Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
The performance of a solar conical receiver greatly influences the concentrated solar power
(CSP) system. It is worthy to devote efforts on performance optimization for a solar conical …

Effects of geometric parameters on thermal performance for a cylindrical solar receiver using a 3D numerical model

C Zou, Y Zhang, H Feng, Q Falcoz, P Neveu… - Energy Conversion and …, 2017 - Elsevier
The geometric parameters of a cavity receiver play critical roles in solar energy conversion
and heat transfer. However, the effects of geometric parameters on thermal performance …