Thermal efficiency enhancement of parabolic trough collectors: a review

T Chekifi, M Boukraa - Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, 2022 - Springer
The parabolic trough collectors are the most widely used linear concentrators for the
thermodynamic conversion of solar energy, especially in industrial and domestic fields …

Application of novel framework based on ensemble boosted regression trees and Gaussian process regression in modelling thermal performance of small-scale …

Z Said, P Sharma, AK Tiwari, Z Huang, VG Bui… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
This work examined the thermal performance of a small-scale solar organic Rankine cycle
system, in which a flat plate solar collector was employed to supply heat to the organic …

A review of recent developments in the application of machine learning in solar thermal collector modelling

M Vakili, SA Salehi - Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2023 - Springer
Over the past few decades, the popularity of solar thermal collectors has increased
dramatically because of many significant advantages like being a free, natural …

Using Bayesian optimization and ensemble boosted regression trees for optimizing thermal performance of solar flat plate collector under thermosyphon condition …

Z Said, P Sharma, LS Sundar, VD Tran - … Energy Technologies and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The thermal performance of a flat plate solar collector operating under thermosyphon
conditions using MWCNT+ Fe 3 O 4/Water hybrid nanofluids was investigated in this study …

Revealing prediction of perched cum off-centered wick solar still performance using network based on optimizer algorithm

S Pavithra, T Veeramani, SS Subha, PJS Kumar… - Process Safety and …, 2022 - Elsevier
A sincere effort has been made to engineer a perched cum off-centered wick solar still
(PCWSS) in the present work. The daily average efficiency with hourly prediction distillate …

Power plant energy predictions based on thermal factors using ridge and support vector regressor algorithms

A Afzal, S Alshahrani, A Alrobaian, A Buradi, SA Khan - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
This work aims to model the combined cycle power plant (CCPP) using different algorithms.
The algorithms used are Ridge, Linear regressor (LR), and upport vector regressor (SVR) …

Data driven insights for parabolic trough solar collectors: Artificial intelligence-based energy and exergy performance analysis

H Tao, OA Alawi, RZ Homod, MKA Mohammed… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2024 - Elsevier
Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms can potentially contribute to optimizing energy and
exergy outputs in renewable resources to increase efficiencies and reduce environmental …

A feedforward-feedback control strategy based on artificial neural network for solar receivers

WQ Wang, MJ Li, JQ Guo, WQ Tao - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
In a solar power tower plant, the stability of the receiver's outlet temperature is required for
high-efficiency and safe operation. However, the dramatic variation of solar energy caused …

Energy and exergy analyses of a parabolic trough concentrated solar power plant using molten salt during the start-up process

S Zhang, M Liu, Y Zhao, J Liu, J Yan - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Daily start-up is the character of concentrated solar power (CSP) plants because of solar
energy intermittency. Thus, much energy is consumed during the start-up process of CSPs …

Hybrid data-driven method for low-carbon economic energy management strategy in electricity-gas coupled energy systems based on transformer network and deep …

B Zhang, W Hu, X Xu, Z Zhang, Z Chen - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Because of their attractive economic and environmental benefits, integrated energy systems
(IESs), especially electricity-gas coupled energy systems (EGCESs), have received great …