Industry is one of the leading energy consumers with a global share of 37%. Fossil fuels are
used to meet more then 80% of this demand. The sun's heat can be exploited in most …

There is generally agreement among the HVAC (Heating Ventilating and Air Conditioning)
community that one of the main issues impeding solar thermal technologies from achieving …

The bible of solar engineering that translates solar energy theory to practice, revised and
updated The updated Fifth Edition of Solar Engineering of Thermal Processes, Photovoltaics …

This article discusses the task of increasing the thermal efficiency of flat solar collectors in
heat supply systems by optimizing their operating parameters under conditions when their …

The food industry accounts for approximately 30% of global energy consumption. In
addition, food-processing activities contribute almost 26% of total greenhouse gas …

A numerical model is developed and validated to simulate the performance of sensible
energy storage (water tank) and hybrid energy storage (water tank including phase change …

This paper reviews different methods that have been proposed to characterize thermal
stratification in energy storages from a theoretical point of view. Specifically, this paper …

This paper presents the results of three-dimensional (3D) unsteady Computational Fluid
Dynamics (CFD) simulations to investigate the influence of several design and operating …

Supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO 2) Brayton cycles are considered to be a potentially viable
option for reducing the cost of electricity generation from solar power tower plants, owing to …

Sensible heat thermal storage systems store energy in a medium to which heat is added or
removed, providing a simple, cost-effective, and easy-to-control for energy storage. The …