Phase change material (PCM) candidates for latent heat thermal energy storage (LHTES) in concentrated solar power (CSP) based thermal applications-A review

DS Jayathunga, HP Karunathilake, M Narayana… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Solar energy offers over 2,945,926 TWh/year of global Concentrating Solar Power
(CSP) potential, that can be used to substitute fossil fuels in power generation and mitigate …

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 …

Concentrated solar thermochemical gasification of biomass: Principles, applications, and development

Y Fang, MC Paul, S Varjani, X Li, YK Park… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Bioenergy production is one of the most reliable strategies for replacing fossil fuels and
reducing CO 2 emissions. Gasification-based bioenergy generation has been extensively …

Heat transfer performance enhancement and thermal strain restrain of tube receiver for parabolic trough solar collector by using asymmetric outward convex …

W Fuqiang, T Zhexiang, G Xiangtao, T Jianyu… - Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
With the aim to increase the overall heat transfer performance and reliability of tube receiver
for parabolic trough solar collector system, asymmetric outward convex corrugated tube is …

Wavy-tape insert designed for managing highly concentrated solar energy on absorber tube of parabolic trough receiver

X Zhu, L Zhu, J Zhao - Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
In this paper, a swirl flow generator, namely wavy-tape insert, is tailored for the parabolic
trough receiver (PTR) to improve its performances by mean of enhancing the heat transfer …

Comparative and sensitive analysis for parabolic trough solar collectors with a detailed Monte Carlo ray-tracing optical model

ZD Cheng, YL He, FQ Cui, BC Du, ZJ Zheng, Y Xu - Applied Energy, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper presents the numerical results of the comparative and sensitive analysis for
different parabolic trough solar collector (PTC) systems under different operating conditions …

A design method and numerical study for a new type parabolic trough solar collector with uniform solar flux distribution

K Wang, YL He, ZD Cheng - Science China Technological Sciences, 2014 - Springer
The non-uniform concentrated solar flux distribution on the outer surface of the absorber
tube can lead to large circumferential temperature difference and high local temperature of …

Thermohydraulic and thermodynamics performance of hybrid nanofluids based parabolic trough solar collector equipped with wavy promoters

HA Mohammed, HB Vuthaluru, S Liu - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
This article presents a numerical analysis on the thermohydraulic and thermodynamic
performance of a parabolic trough solar collector (PTSC) receiver's tube equipped with wavy …

Numerical investigations on metal foam inserted solar parabolic trough DSG absorber tube for mitigating thermal gradients and enhancing heat transfer

BN Kumar, KS Reddy - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Absorber tube in the superheating section of a direct steam generating solar parabolic
trough collector field is subjected to large circumferential temperature gradients due to non …

A detailed nonuniform thermal model of a parabolic trough solar receiver with two halves and two inactive ends

ZD Cheng, YL He, Y Qiu - Renewable Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
In this paper a detailed one dimensional nonuniform thermal model of a parabolic trough
solar collector/receiver is presented. The entire receiver is divided into two linear halves and …