Energy, exergy, economic and environmental analyses of solar air heating systems with and without thermal energy storage for sustainable development: A systematic …

SK Pathak, VV Tyagi, K Chopra, B Kalidasan… - Journal of Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Solar air heating is the most widely used for crop drying, building and space heating
applications due to its technological maturity and economic viability. Still, solar air heaters …

A review of recent passive heat transfer enhancement methods

SS Mousavi Ajarostaghi, M Zaboli, H Javadi… - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Improvements in miniaturization and boosting the thermal performance of energy
conservation systems call for innovative techniques to enhance heat transfer. Heat transfer …

Conceptual analysis framework development to understand barriers of nanofluid commercialization

A Alagumalai, C Qin, KEK Vimal, E Solomin, L Yang… - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite massive efforts in the field of nanofluids over the last two decades, nanofluids are
primarily still used in a lab scale due to numerous controllable and uncontrollable barriers …

A comprehensive review on the application of hybrid nanofluids in solar energy collectors

Q Xiong, S Altnji, T Tayebi, M Izadi, A Hajjar… - Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Over the years, nanofluids have proved to be beneficial in various heat transfer applications,
particularly in solar energy collectors. Hybrid nanofluids have also shown promise in such …

A comprehensive review analysis on advances of evacuated tube solar collector using nanofluids and PCM

A Kumar, AK Tiwari, Z Said - Sustainable Energy Technologies and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Solar thermal energy is extensively used in industrial and domestic applications like solar
drying operation, space heating, water heating, desalting of water, etc. A solar collector is …

A review on recent advancements of the usage of nano fluid in hybrid photovoltaic/thermal (PV/T) solar systems

F Hossain, MR Karim, AA Bhuiyan - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The continuous increase in global energy consumption as a result of rapid population
growth, combined with the detrimental impact of fossil fuels on the atmosphere, has made it …

Progress in research and technological advancements of commercial concentrated solar thermal power plants

MI Khan, F Asfand, SG Al-Ghamdi - Solar Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
A global transition towards more sustainable production and consumption systems is
underway. This transition process is particularly visible in energy systems, where modern …

[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 …

On the thermal performance of evacuated tube solar collector integrated with phase change material

H Olfian, SSM Ajarostaghi, M Ebrahimnataj… - Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
The aim of present work is to analyze a U-type of evacuated tube solar collector in which
phase change material (PCM) is employed to store surplus solar energy in daytime and …

Thermodynamic analysis and comparison of different absorption cycles driven by evacuated tube solar collector utilizing hybrid nanofluids

M Abid, MS Khan, TAH Ratlamwala, MN Malik… - Energy Conversion and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The utilization of hybrid nanofluids is the most attractive way to improve the heat transfer rate
of solar thermal applications. Evacuated tube solar collector is one of the most important …