Recent advances in parabolic dish solar concentrators: Receiver design, heat loss reduction, and nanofluid optimization for enhanced efficiency and applications

AA Abed, MR El-Marghany, WM El-Awady… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2024 - Elsevier
Renewable energy has become essential to address fuel scarcity and greenhouse gas
emissions like carbon dioxide. Experts are very interested in developing solar energy and …

Experimental study of the energy and exergy performance of a solar parabolic dish concentrator integrated with thermal energy storage

OO Issa, V Thirunavukkarasu - Journal of Energy Storage, 2024 - Elsevier
Concentrating solar power is rapidly becoming a mainstay of solar energy systems, with the
parabolic dish concentrator being a common and high-performing option for medium …

Experimental study on charging and discharging behavior of PCM encapsulations for thermal energy storage of concentrating solar power system

OO Issa, V Thirunavukkarasu - Journal of Energy Storage, 2024 - Elsevier
Integrating thermal energy storage with renewable energy systems has interestingly started
to be a potential solution for the intermittent and fluctuation problems of such systems. One …

Heat Loss Reduction Approach in Cavity Receiver Design Based on Performance Investigation of a Novel Positive Conical Scheme

X Na, Y Yao, C Zhao, J Du - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
The cavity receiver's thermal conversion performance is critical for parabolic dish and tower
Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) systems. Distinct from precedent research aiming to …

Thermal Performance Improvement of Modified Hemispherical Cavity Receiver with Air Curtain

A Simer, A Maurya, A Kumar - IOP Conference Series: Materials …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Heat losses from solar cavity receivers degrade the efficiency of solar parabolic dish
collector system. Specifically, increased convection losses emulate a significant contribution …