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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"solar power plants"”.
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Modelling High-Temperature Thermal Storage Systems for Concentrated Solar Power Plants
… (TES) is an important aspect of concentrated solar power (CSP) systems addressing the mismatch between electrical demand and supply profiles and intermittency in the solar resource. The design of TES components should be optimised from a system-level perspective to minimise the cost of …
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Modelling High-Temperature Thermal Storage Systems for Concentrated Solar Power Plants
… (TES) is an important aspect of concentrated solar power (CSP) systems addressing the mismatch between electrical demand and supply profiles and intermittency in the solar resource. The design of TES components should be optimised from a system-level perspective to minimise the cost of …
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Integrated design of third generation concentrated solar power plants under uncertainty
… research focuses on the Gen3 (3rd generation) solar tower CSP (concentrated solar power) variant. A methodology is introduced to evaluate two different approaches to deploying this technology - one is the conventional "build large" approach and the other is a "build modular" approach. …
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Assessing the costs of solar power plants for the Island of Roatàn
… assessing the installation costs of different solar power plant technologies and the current commercial availability for installation on the Island or Roatàn. Commercial large-scale power plants have been in use for decades and their technical feasibility has been documented as well as their …
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Suitability modeling and the location of utility-scale solar power plants in the southwestern United States
… renewable energy at the legislative level, solar energy has started to play a noticeably larger role in the energy portfolio of certain regions in the United States. Decision making concerning the siting of new solar facilities can be complicated, and GIS-based suitability modeling is often …
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Site location and techno-economic analysis of utility-scale concentrating solar power plants in South Africa
… and quantification of potential Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) sites in South Africa; and the performance and cost modelling, optimisation and analysis of two CSP technologies in three locations. A further theme of the study is the consideration of the availability of water for plant cooling …
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Nanofluids with optimised thermal properties based on metal chalcogenides with different morphology
… combustion. In this scenario, concentrating solar power (CSP) is a renewable energy with a high potential to cover the global energy demand. However, improving the efficiency and reducing the cost of technologies based on this type of energy to make it more competitive is still a work in …
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Development of 2d metallic nanomaterials for nanofluids with application in concentrating solar power
The cost-effective optimisation of renewable power generation systems is a must in the present context of a global climate crisis and a growing demand for reliable, affordable and clean power supply. Reliability is a challenging issue for renewable technologies like photovoltaics, which produces …
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Advancing radiative heat transfer modeling in high-temperature liquid-salts
Nuclear and solar-thermal communities are investigating the use of high Prandtl number liquid-salts in energy generation systems, including fluoride salt-cooled high-temperature reactors (FHRs), molten salt reactors (MSRs), fusion devices, and concentrated solar power plants. The temperature …
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Resource Distribution for Robots and Nexus between Water and Energy
… objects based on material type.</p><p>Water and power requirements for large-scale systems have been researched and can be optimized using multi-objective formulations. We propose a nexus between water and electrical power that satisfies the water and power demands, ensures a sufficient quality …
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Nanofluid-based receivers for high-temperature, high-flux direct solar collectors
Solar power plants with surface receivers have low overall energy conversion efficiencies due to large emissive losses at high temperatures. Alternatively, volumetric receivers promise increased performance because solar radiation can be transferred into a fluid medium, which subsequently reduces …
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Corrosion Behavior of Potential Structural Materials for use in Nitrate Salts Based Solar Thermal Power Plants
… the impact on the environment. Concentrated solar power (CSP) plants have the ability to harness solar energy at an efficiency not yet achieved by other technologies designed to convert solar energy to electricity. The problem of intermittency in power production seen with other renewable …
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Influence of environmental conditions and proton irradiation on molten salt corrosion of metals
… of molten salts have emerged, especially in the power industry, such as molten salt reactors and concentrated solar power plants. However, the understanding of the molten salts, both physically and chemically, is still lacking. As one of the interactions between molten salts and materials, …
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Fluid-structure interaction investigation of a medium-sized heliostat
Renewable energy, particularly solar energy is at the forefront of the fight against fossil fuels. Concentrated Solar Power plants utilizing heliostats, large reflecting mirrors, to concentrate the sun’s solar energy onto a central tower are one are the main solar technologies in use today. These …
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Multicriteria Decision Method for Renewable Energy Production: Siting Solar, Wind and SHP Plants in Zimbabwe
… on existing resources. Most of the energy is powered by coal-fired stations that now require major upgrades. The low-capacity problem has resulted in frequent production stops and power cuts that affect economic performance of industries and services. These power shortages have led to the …
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Determination of the Raman Spectra of Molten ZnCl2 and Thermophysical Properties of Polymerized C60 Solids Using Atomistic Computational Techniques
… as thermal storage fluids in concentrating solar power plants. In the second study, classical molecular dynamics (MD) was used to compare and contrast phonon-driven thermophysical properties of polymerized and unpolymerized solid state polymorphs of C_60. To achieve this, a newly …
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Analytics for Sustainable Logistics: Fuel Efficiency and Hydrogen Planning
… Next, Chapter 3 optimizes the deployment of solar-hydrogen systems. Recent advances in vehicle technologies offer the promise to replace conventional gasoline-powered engines with zero-emission technologies based on hydrogen fuel. To be successful, however, hydrogen-powered vehicles need …
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Solar thermoelectric power conversion : materials characterization to device demonstration
… change threatening our planet as we know it. Solar energy technologies are a promising, sustainable and clean alternative due to the vast abundance of sunlight. Thus far, photovoltaic solar cells and concentrated solar power are considered to be the most promising approaches. Solar cells …
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NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF HEAT PIPES WITH APPLICATION IN CONCENTRATED SOLAR POWER SYSTEMS
… systems as an integral part of concentrated solar power plants improve the performance of the system by mitigating the mismatch between the energy supply and the energy demand. Using a phase change material (PCM) to store energy increases the energy density, hence, reduces the size and cost …
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Almacenamiento de energía mediante ciclos termoquímicos de CaO
… CaO/Ca(OH)2 en sistemas de energía solar de concentración como medios de almacenamiento de energía. Para ello se han realizado estudios tanto a nivel de diseño conceptual de estos novedosos sistemas de almacenamiento, como de modelado de reactores (y su validación con resultados a …
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