Solar-powered absorption chillers: A comprehensive and critical review

A Shirazi, RA Taylor, GL Morrison, SD White - Energy conversion and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Solar heating and cooling (SHC) systems are currently under rapid development and
deployment due to their potential to reduce fossil fuel use and to alleviate greenhouse gas …

Harnessing heat beyond 200 C from unconcentrated sunlight with nonevacuated transparent aerogels

L Zhao, B Bhatia, S Yang, E Strobach, LA Weinstein… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Heat at intermediate temperatures (120–220° C) is in significant demand in both industrial
and domestic sectors for applications such as water and space heating, steam generation …

Highly transparent, temperature-resistant, and flexible polyimide aerogels for solar energy collection

J Sun, S Zhuo, R Zhang - ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2023 - ACS Publications
Advanced aerogel materials with low thermal conductivity and high transparency have
shown great application prospects in the solar thermal energy conversion field. However …

Concentrated radiative cooling and its constraint from reciprocity

M Dong, L Zhu, B Jiang, S Fan, Z Chen - Optics Express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Concentrated radiative cooling, an analogous concept of the concentrated solar power
technology, has the potential of amplifying both the cooling power and the temperature …

Experimental investigation of steam reforming of methanol over La2CuO4/CuZnAl-oxides nanocatalysts

Y Zhang, S Guo, Z Tian, Y Zhao, Y Hao - Applied Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Nanocatalysts of compound metal oxides (La 2 CuO 4) x (CNZ-1) 1− x (x= 0.3, 0.5, 0.7) were
prepared. Steam reforming of methanol (SRM) over these nanocatalysts was experimentally …

Experimental investigation and thermodynamic analysis of effective hydrogen production driven by mid-and low-temperature solar heat

Y Zhao, Y Zhang, W Li, Y Hao, H Jin - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2018 - Elsevier
To realize a short-and mid-term goal of sustainable development of solar fuel production, the
possibility of effective hydrogen generation via methanol steam reforming at temperatures of …

[HTML][HTML] Research progress of solar aided coal-fired power generation (SACPG) system

Y Wang, L Duan, S Ji, J Guo, Z Duan, C Lv… - … Energy System and …, 2025 - Elsevier
Solar aided coal-fired power generation (SACPG) is the most efficient and economical
technology for reducing coal resource consumption and increasing solar energy efficiency …

Renewable hydrogen production by solar-powered methanol reforming

D Real, I Dumanyan, N Hotz - International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
The present study demonstrates the possibility of generating hydrogen by methanol steam
reforming at temperatures of 235–260° C inside a non-concentrating solar collector, ideally …

Novel two-stage adsorption heat pump with high efficiency and energy storage density, powered by non-concentrated sunlight

K Kugimoto, Y Hirota, M Yokoi, T Yamauchi - Solar Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Low-cost solar-powered air-conditioning systems with energy storage have the potential to
reduce fossil fuel consumption. Herein, a two-stage adsorption heat pump (AHP) system …

Transparent thermal insulation ceramic aerogel materials for solar thermal conversion

L An, Z Li, Z Guo, Y Hu, Y Huang, JN Armstrong… - Nanoscale …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Thermal management in energy-efficient solar thermal energy conversion and transparent
windows requires advanced materials with low thermal conductivity and high transparency …