Dielectric‐Based Metamaterials for Near‐Perfect Light Absorption

BX Wang, X Qin, G Duan, G Yang… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The emergence of metamaterials and their continued prosperity have built a powerful
working platform for accurately manipulating the behavior of electromagnetic waves …

Thermal characterization of coolant Maxwell type nanofluid flowing in parabolic trough solar collector (PTSC) used inside solar powered ship application

W Jamshed, C Şirin, F Selimefendigil… - Coatings, 2021 - mdpi.com
Parabolic trough solar collectors (PTSCs) are generally utilized to reach high temperatures
in solar-thermal applications. The current work investigates entropy production analysis and …

Concentrating Solar Power Advances in Geometric Optics, Materials and System Integration

GE Arnaoutakis, DA Katsaprakakis - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
In this paper, the technological advances in concentrating solar power are reviewed. A
comprehensive system approach within this scope is attempted to include advances of …

An experimental investigation of nanofluid, nanocoating, and energy storage materials on the performance of parabolic trough collector

MA Hamada, H Khalil, MM Abou Al-Sood… - Applied Thermal …, 2023 - Elsevier
Currently, parabolic trough collectors have been widely employed for medium-high heat
generation applications such as heat generation processes and desalination applications …

[HTML][HTML] A transient simulation for a novel solar-geothermal cogeneration system with a selection of heat transfer fluids using thermodynamics analysis and ANN …

E Assareh, S Hoseinzadeh, N Agarwal… - Applied Thermal …, 2023 - Elsevier
Today, due to the reduction of fossil resources and on the other hand the high environmental
pollution of these resources, it is necessary to pay attention to alternative resources …

A thermal efficiency-enhancing strategy of parabolic trough collector systems by cascadingly applying multiple solar selective-absorbing coatings

K Zhao, H Jin, Z Gai, H Hong - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
For a long time, the pathway for enhancing solar collector thermal efficiency of solar energy
converting into heat has been blocked because state-of-the-art parabolic trough collectors …

A hybrid parabolic trough solar collector system integrated with photovoltaics

Q Wang, Y Yao, Z Shen, H Yang - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
It is challenging to reduce the massive radiation heat loss from the parabolic trough solar
receiver and enhance the solar utilization efficiency of the parabolic trough collector (PTC) …

Multi-objective optimization of a solar-driven polygeneration system based on CO2 working fluid

N Georgousis, P Lykas, E Bellos… - Energy Conversion and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The object of this study is the investigation of polygeneration plants utilizing solar energy in
order to produce power products on the scale of a few MW. Parabolic trough collectors are …

Buoyancy effects on convective heat transfer of supercritical CO2 and thermal stress in parabolic trough receivers under non-uniform solar flux distribution

K Wang, ZD Zhang, XY Zhang, CH Min - … Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2021 - Elsevier
The buoyancy influenced heat transfer characteristics of S-CO 2 have been investigated
widely in previous studies, but limited to the conditions with constant wall temperature or …

[HTML][HTML] Transparent thermally tunable microwave absorber prototype based on patterned VO2 film

Z Lu, Y Zhang, H Wang, C Xia, Y Liu, S Dou, Y Li, J Tan - Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Transparent microwave absorbers that exhibit high optical transmittance and microwave
absorption capability are ideal, although having a fixed absorption performance limits their …