Smart technologies for promotion of energy efficiency, utilization of sustainable resources and waste management

S Nižetić, N Djilali, A Papadopoulos… - Journal of cleaner …, 2019 - Elsevier
The role of smart technologies can become very important and useful to solve the main
population issues nowadays and provide foundations for a sustainable future. A smart …

Advances in PV and PVT cooling technologies: A review

AK Hamzat, AZ Sahin, MI Omisanya… - … Energy Technologies and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Cooling with nanofluids has been one of the most promising cooling strategies used to
minimize PV module temperature and enhance the performance of the system. This article …

A review of nanofluid-based direct absorption solar collectors: Design considerations and experiments with hybrid PV/Thermal and direct steam generation collectors

N Goel, RA Taylor, T Otanicar - Renewable Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Over the last 100 plus years, solar thermal energy has been used for residential heating
applications, industrial process heating, electricity generation, and thermochemical …

Progress, challenges and future prospects of plasmonic nanofluid based direct absorption solar collectors–a state-of-the-art review

S Kumar, N Chander, VK Gupta, R Kukreja - Solar Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
The use of nanofluids improves the overall performance of solar thermal collectors and has
been studied explicitly in the last decade. More recently, to overcome the limitations of …

A review of applications of plasmonic and conventional nanofluids in solar heat collection

Q Wang, L Yang, N Zhao, G Xu, J Song, X Jin… - Applied Thermal …, 2023 - Elsevier
With the development of solar energy utilization and nanotechnology, nanofluid heat
collection has attracted significant attention. The solar plasmonic nanofluids with significant …

Direct absorption nanofluid-based solar collectors for low and medium temperatures. A review

M Sainz-Mañas, F Bataille, C Caliot, A Vossier… - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Solar energy is expected to play an important role in the decarbonization of the energy and
industrial sectors. Low and medium temperature (< 400° C) solar thermal collectors have …

[HTML][HTML] Challenges and opportunities for nanomaterials in spectral splitting for high-performance hybrid solar photovoltaic-thermal applications: a review

G Huang, SR Curt, K Wang, CN Markides - Nano Materials Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Hybrid photovoltaic-thermal (PV-T) collectors, which are capable of cogenerating useful
thermal energy and electricity from the same aperture area, have a significantly higher …

On the colloidal and chemical stability of solar nanofluids: From nanoscale interactions to recent advances

OZ Sharaf, RA Taylor, E Abu-Nada - Physics Reports, 2020 - Elsevier
The outdoor deployment of solar nanofluids in practical solar photothermal conversion
devices for prolonged periods of time has been an ongoing challenge. This is due to their …

Feasibility investigation of spectral splitting photovoltaic/thermal systems for domestic space heating

C Zhang, C Shen, Y Zhang, J Pu - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The building-integrated solar energy system is an important technology to achieve carbon
neutrality in the building sector. However, traditional solar energy systems, such as PV …

Design and analysis of a concentrating PV/T system with nanofluid based spectral beam splitter and heat pipe cooling

X Han, X Zhao, X Chen - Renewable Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a concentrating photovoltaic/thermal (CPV/T) system which combines
the advantages of Ag/CoSO 4-propylene glycol (PG) nanofluid based spectral beam splitter …