Over the last 25 years solar power plants based on parabolic trough concentrators have
been developed for the commercial power industry. On the other hand, in recent years, a …

Among the concentrated solar power technologies, those based on Organic Rankine Cycles
have a very low market presence. However they have favorable characteristics for …

Solar thermal power plants have been widely studied in recent years as solar energy is
clean, affordable and largely available. The possibility of converting solar thermal energy …

This section investigates the production of electricity (to be subsequently used for hydrogen
production) using solar thermal systems. Due to the increase in the electricity costs from …

This study aims at developing and optimizing an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) for a small
scale, decentralized parabolic trough system. A numerical model the Organic Rankine Cycle …

This paper compares the performance of medium-size Concentrating Solar Power (CSP)
plants based on an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) power generation unit integrated with …

Recently, distributed power systems especially with renewable sources have shown an
increasing demand all over the world and have been a technical viable solution to demand …

This chapter introduces the concentrating solar power (CSP), defined as power generated in
the CSP systems that uses solar concentrators to convert solar energy into heat and then the …

This paper compares the performance of 1 MWe concentrating solar power (CSP) plants
based on an organic Rankine cycle (ORC) power generation unit integrated with parabolic …

The use of solar thermal energy for electricity production is a clean and sustainable way to
cover the increasing energy needs of our society. The most mature technology for capturing …