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Thermal energy storage for direct steam generation concentrating solar power plants: Concept and materials selection
(Elsevier, 2024-04)
Direct steam generation (DSG) concentrating solar power (CSP) plants uses water as heat transfer fluid, and it is a technology available today. It has many advantages, but its deployment is limited due to the lack of an ...
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Innovative desalination system driven by a solar micro gas turbine for off-grid applications
(Elsevier, 2024-01-12)
Past work by the authors has suggested that Solar micro Gas Turbines (SmGTs) can be used cost-effectively to produce electric power and heat for freshwater production through desalination, mainly in off-grid locations. ...
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Sustainable biomass pellets using trunk wood from olive groves at the end of their life cycle
(Elsevier, 2020-06)
Forest biomass is the raw material most commonly used to produce quality pellets for domestic households. However, sustainable forest biomass is not available in all regions, but there are other potential raw material ...
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Analysis of a new analytical law of Heat Release Rate (HRR) for Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI) combustion mode versus analytical parameters
(Elsevier, 2010)
Homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engines produce very low NO and soot emissions and alsoimprove engine efficiency when compare to conventional spark ignition engines. The combustion process bases on the ...
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Evaporative Mist Cooling as Heat Dissipation Technique: Experimental Assessment and Modelling
(MDPI, 2020-08)
The severity of extreme weather conditions brought on by climate change are conditioning quality of life, economic development, and well-being in today’s cities. Conventional measures have been shown to be insu cient for ...
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Biomass universal district heating systems
(Web of conferences, 2017)
In mild climate regions Directive 27/2012 EU application for developing sustainable district heating networks in consolidated urban nucleus is a challenge. In Spain most of the municipalities above 5,000 inhabitants have ...
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Contributions of heat pumps to demand response: A case study of a plus-energy dwelling
(Elsevier, 2018-03)
Demand Response programs are increasingly used in the electricity sector, since they allow consumers to play a significant role for balancing supply and demand by reducing or shifting their electricity consumption. For ...
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Angular Dependence of Photonic Crystal Coupled to Photovoltaic Solar Cell
(MDPI, 2020-02)
Photonic crystals have the advantage of minimizing thermal losses from solar cells, reflecting the solar radiation that is not absorbed by the photovoltaic device. To optimize this optical response, photonic crystals are ...
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Capital Cost Assessment of Concentrated Solar Power Plants Based on Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Power Cycles
(2019-07)
Previous work by the authors has shown that broader analyses than those typically found in literature (in terms of operating pressures allowed) can yield interesting conclusions with respect to the best candidate cycles ...
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The Ammonia Looping System for Mid-Temperature Thermochemical Energy Storage
(AIDIC, 2018)
Thermochemical reactions have a great potential for energy storage and transport. Their application to solar energy is of utmost interest because the possibility of reaching high energy densities and seasonal storage capacity. ...