Progress in concentrated solar power technology with parabolic trough collector system: A comprehensive review

W Fuqiang, C Ziming, T Jianyu, Y Yuan, S Yong… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2017 - Elsevier
Advanced solar energy utilization technology requires high-grade energy to achieve the
most efficient application with compact size and least capital investment recovery period …

The development technology and applications of supercritical CO2 power cycle in nuclear energy, solar energy and other energy industries

MJ Li, HH Zhu, JQ Guo, K Wang, WQ Tao - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
The development technology and applications of supercritical CO 2 power cycle have
recently been gaining a lot of attention for applications to different energy industries. The …

Perspective of concentrating solar power

YL He, Y Qiu, K Wang, F Yuan, WQ Wang, MJ Li… - Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
In this perspective paper, the present status and development tendency of concentrating
solar power (CSP) are analyzed from two aspects:(1) Potential pathways to efficient CSP …

Progress in full spectrum solar energy utilization by spectral beam splitting hybrid PV/T system

H Liang, F Wang, L Yang, Z Cheng, Y Shuai… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Spectral beam splitting (SBS) hybrid PV/T system was a promising path for utilizing the full
spectrum solar energy to cogenerate electricity and high-grade heat, with high conversion …

Review of the solar flux distribution in concentrated solar power: Non-uniform features, challenges, and solutions

YL He, K Wang, Y Qiu, BC Du, Q Liang, S Du - Applied Thermal …, 2019 - Elsevier
Concentrated solar flux distribution in the concentrated solar power (CSP) systems is
extremely non-uniform, which can lead to high local temperature and large temperature …

Experimental and numerical investigations of thermal performance enhancement in a latent heat storage heat exchanger using bifurcated and straight fins

V Safari, H Abolghasemi, B Kamkari - Renewable Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, the effects of applying straight and bifurcated fin configurations on melting
behavior of paraffin inside the shell-and-tube heat exchangers are both experimentally and …

Heat transfer enhancement analysis of tube receiver for parabolic trough solar collector with pin fin arrays inserting

X Gong, F Wang, H Wang, J Tan, Q Lai, H Han - Solar Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
Tube receiver with pin fin arrays inserting was introduced as the absorber tube of parabolic
trough receiver to increase the overall heat transfer performance of tube receiver for …

Thermal performance analysis of a parabolic trough solar collector using supercritical CO2 as heat transfer fluid under non-uniform solar flux

Y Qiu, MJ Li, YL He, WQ Tao - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
In this paper, an integrated numerical model was established to solve the complex energy
transfer in a parabolic trough collector (PTC) by combining Monte Carlo ray tracing and finite …

A systematic comparison of different S-CO2 Brayton cycle layouts based on multi-objective optimization for applications in solar power tower plants

K Wang, MJ Li, JQ Guo, P Li, ZB Liu - Applied energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Supercritical CO 2 (S-CO 2) Brayton cycles are recently proposed to be integrated
into the solar power tower (SPT) due to their high efficiency and compactness. Comparison …

Progress in the design and the applications of linear Fresnel reflectors–A critical review

E Bellos - Thermal Science and Engineering Progress, 2019 - Elsevier
Solar concentrating power is one of the most promising ways of producing clean electricity
by utilizing the incident solar irradiation on the earth. Linear Fresnel reflector (LFR) is one of …