Progress in heat transfer research for high-temperature solar thermal applications

W Lipiński, E Abbasi-Shavazi, J Chen… - Applied Thermal …, 2021 - Elsevier
High-temperature solar thermal energy systems make use of concentrated solar radiation to
generate electricity, produce chemical fuels, and drive energy-intensive processing of …

[HTML][HTML] Review of heat transfer analysis in different cavity geometries with and without nanofluids

FL Rashid, AK Hussein, EH Malekshah… - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Many strategies have been attempted for accomplishing the needed changes in the heat-
transfer rate in closed cavities in recent years. Some strategies used include the addition of …

Integrated optical-thermal model and deep learning technique to estimate the performance of a conical cavity receiver coupled solar parabolic dish collector

A Rajan, KS Reddy - Energy Conversion and Management, 2024 - Elsevier
An integrated optical-thermal model was developed by adopting ray tracing using the Monte-
Carlo algorithm and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for evaluating the performance of …

A comprehensive review on performance assessment of solar cavity receiver with parabolic dish collector

A Maurya, A Kumar, D Sharma - Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Cavity receiver integrated with parabolic dish collector is an essential component of the
solar thermal energy conversion process for high-temperature applications, such as power …

Air curtains for reduction of natural convection heat loss from a heated plate: A numerical investigation

R Mondal, JF Torres, G Hughes, J Pye - … Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2022 - Elsevier
Concentrating solar power (CSP) plants encounter inefficiencies at all stages of electricity
generation. Convection from the solar-thermal receiver is a significant mode of heat loss in …

An air curtain surrounding the solar tower receiver for effective reduction of convective heat loss

Q Wang, Y Yao, M Hu, J Cao, Y Qiu, H Yang - Sustainable Cities and …, 2021 - Elsevier
External-type solar tower receiver, mounted on the top of a tower with an elevation of dozens
or even hundreds of meters, is faced with unavoidably massive convective heat loss due to …

[HTML][HTML] Directly irradiated liquid metal film in an ultra-high temperature solar cavity receiver. Part 1: Concepts and a quasi-steady-state analysis

TI Abdelsalam, Z Tian, A Robinson - Solar Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Solar thermal energy has the theoretical potential to deliver heat at ultra-high temperatures
(> 1300 K), which can enable integration with state-of-the-art thermal energy storage …

Flexible air curtain optimization for isolating tobacco odor in large-scale space

X Li, J Jia, M Zhang, L Wang, X Chang - Energy and Buildings, 2022 - Elsevier
Controlling the isolation of different tobacco odors in the tobacco workshop is of great
significance to the air quality regulation in the workshop. For the isolation of odor, the …

Comparison of a solar thermal tower power plant based on LiF-NaF-KF, NaCl-KCl-ZnCl2, and NaNO3-KNO3 as HTF under different DNI conditions for different power …

K Mahboob, AA Khan, J Sarwar, MW Saleem, TA Khan - Solar Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
This work introduces the use of three different types of HTFs (NaNO 3-KNO 3, NaCl-KCl-
ZnCl 2, LiF-NaF-KF) and three different energy cycles (sCO 2 Recompression, sCO 2 Partial …

Wind-induced convective heat loss of cylindrical receiver considering the effect of dish concentrator

L Xiao, S He, ZG Shen, SY Wu, ZL Chen - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
A numerical model by coupling Monte Carlo Ray Tracing (MCRT) and Computational Fluid
Dynamics (CFD) was built to explore the convective heat loss of a cylindrical receiver with …