Increasing the heat transfer rate of heat transfer equipment is an ever-lasting topic in thermal
engineering. Due to the advantages of light weight, high specific surface, high thermal …

Advanced solar energy utilization technology requires high-grade energy to achieve the
most efficient application with compact size and least capital investment recovery period …

Concentrated solar flux distribution in the concentrated solar power (CSP) systems is
extremely non-uniform, which can lead to high local temperature and large temperature …

High-temperature solar thermal energy systems make use of concentrated solar radiation to
generate electricity, produce chemical fuels, and drive energy-intensive processing of …

Concentrated solar power technologies are gaining more attention in the last two decades in
order to replace the conventional power technologies and reduce their environmental …

The thermal performance of several engineering devices, such as heat exchangers,
volumetric solar receivers and thermal energy storage systems, is improved by open-cell …

Parabolic trough collectors (PTC) are capable of producing large amounts of energy using
solar energy as a primary energy source. However, with the reduction of photovoltaic …

Gas-phase solar receivers use atmospheric or pressurised gas as their heat transfer fluid
(HTF). The ideal gas-phase receiver would provide high thermal efficiency and high HTF …

An international effort is being made to contribute to greener electricity production. Solar
Thermal Electricity (STE) has emerged as the favourite candidate due to the advantages …

Porous volumetric solar receivers are one type of solar receivers that can volumetrically
absorb solar radiation and achieve efficient solar-to-thermal energy conversion. Porous …