Parabolic trough collector (PTC) is the most established solar concentrating technology
worldwide. The conventional parabolic trough collectors are used in various applications of …

Solar thermal systems are advantageous since it is easier to store heat than electricity on a
large scale. As such, concentrated solar power is receiving considerable interest among …

It is known to us that the problem of freshwater shortage is constantly exacerbated by the
rapid population increase and the great diversity of different industries that need water to …

Solar energy is a harmless form of energy that is plentiful. Due to the extreme usefulness of
solar energy, it is used in applications like solar collectors (SCs). The application leads to …

Although the solar distillers are one of the economic solutions for addressing the freshwater
shortage problem around the world, these devices suffer from low productivity. In this paper …

A wide range of engineering industrial applications require both the thermal and optical
efficiencies of the system to be maximized with a reasonable low penalty for the friction …

Due to rapid industrialization and urbanization, upward rise in carbon emissions in the
atmosphere, and depletion of fossil fuel and gas reserves have forced to find alternative …

Concentrated solar power technologies are gaining more attention in the last two decades in
order to replace the conventional power technologies and reduce their environmental …

In this paper, a novel evacuated receiver was proposed to improve the efficiency of the
parabolic trough collector. In this receiver, a solar-transparent aerogel supported by a glass …

This work focused on presenting a multivariate inverse artificial neural network (ANNim) by
developing two functions coupled to metaheuristic algorithms to increase a parabolic trough …