[HTML][HTML] A comprehensive study of renewable energy sources: Classifications, challenges and suggestions

TZ Ang, M Salem, M Kamarol, HS Das, MA Nazari… - Energy Strategy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Renewable energy (RE) is the key element of sustainable, environmentally friendly, and cost-
effective electricity generation. An official report by International Energy Agency (IEA) states …

Concentrated photovoltaics as light harvesters: Outlook, recent progress, and challenges

A Ejaz, H Babar, HM Ali, F Jamil, MM Janjua… - Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Concentrated photovoltaics (CPV) is a dawn technology in the field of photovoltaic that helps
in escalating the effective use of solar energy. Nowadays, applications of photovoltaic solar …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] State-of-the-art in solar water heating (SWH) systems for sustainable solar energy utilization: A comprehensive review

MR Al-Mamun, H Roy, MS Islam, MR Ali, MI Hossain… - Solar Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The solar water-heating (SWH) system is one of the most convenient applications of solar
energy, which is considered an available, economical, and environmentally friendly energy …

[HTML][HTML] Optics for concentrating photovoltaics: Trends, limits and opportunities for materials and design

K Shanks, S Senthilarasu, TK Mallick - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2016 - Elsevier
Concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) systems are a key step in expanding the use of solar
energy. Solar cells can operate at increased efficiencies under higher solar concentration …

A review of solar photovoltaic concentrators

M Khamooshi, H Salati, F Egelioglu… - International Journal …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Throughout the recent centuries, the limits of using energy resources due to the cost and
environmental issues became one of the scientists' concerns. Because of the huge amount …

Effects of glass cover on heat flux distribution for tube receiver with parabolic trough collector system

W Fuqiang, T Jianyu, M Lanxin… - Energy Conversion and …, 2015 - Elsevier
A solar receiver is designed for operation under extremely uneven heat flux distribution,
cyclic weather, and cloud transient cycle conditions, which can induce large thermal stress …

Design and development of compound parabolic concentrating for photovoltaic solar collector

AH Jaaz, HA Hasan, K Sopian, MHBH Ruslan… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2017 - Elsevier
Despite about five decades of development, commercial solar energy has not yet unable to
penetrate the electric and gas options. For this particular reason, designing compound …

Thermal performance analyses of porous media solar receiver with different irradiative transfer models

F Wang, J Tan, S Yong, H Tan, S Chu - … Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2014 - Elsevier
There are two commonly used methods for irradiative transfer problems in porous media: P1
approximation and Rosseland approximation. In this study, the effects of irradiative transfer …

Numerical analysis of hydrogen production via methane steam reforming in porous media solar thermochemical reactor using concentrated solar irradiation as heat …

F Wang, J Tan, Y Shuai, L Gong, H Tan - Energy conversion and …, 2014 - Elsevier
The calorific value of syngas can be greatly upgraded during the methane steam reforming
process by using concentrated solar energy as heat source. In this study, the Monte Carlo …