Illuminating sustainability: a comprehensive review of the environmental life cycle and exergetic impacts of solar systems on the agri-food sector

B Hamidinasab, H Javadikia, F Hosseini-Fashami… - Solar Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The developing agri-food sector significantly boosts food production and plays a crucial role
in resolving the global food crisis. This development is valuable when accompanied by …

Nanofluid performance in a solar LFR system involving turbulator applying numerical simulation

M Sheikholeslami, Z Ebrahimpour - Advanced Powder Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
With involving innovative swirl flow tapes through the absorber tube in LFR system, the
productivity of unit was improved in present study. To grow the thermal feature of water …

Experimental and Numerical Evaluation of Solar Receiver Heat Losses of a Commercial 9 MWe Linear Fresnel Power Plant

E Montanet, S Rodat, Q Falcoz, F Roget - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
Evaluating the heat losses of linear Fresnel concentrator (LFC) receivers is crucial for
determining plant efficiency and managing the flow rate in solar lines. This becomes …

Design and Preliminary experiment of an Off-axis aequilate-mirrors linear Fresnel concentrator with sunlight self-adaptive feature

Z Duan, Z Li, W An - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Off-Axis Linear Fresnel Reflector (LFR) is an innovative, compact solar
concentrator designed to reduce device height and wind-load without compromising …

Experimental investigation on photovoltaic cooling cycle with R141b/R245fa mixture under the electric field

Y Wang, G Xia, R Li, W Zhou, Z Yan - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
A cooling cycle experimental apparatus with a modified metal foam porous-wall mini-
channel heat sink for the linear Fresnel concentrating photovoltaic (LFPV) system was …

Utilizing the wasted heat from the secondary reflector of linear fresnel solar system by installing thermoelectric generator modules and reheating the working fluid

KS Qananba, MA Al-Nimr - Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 2023 - Springer
This study aims to utilize the reflector-sheet temperature of the secondary reflector for the
Linear Fresnel Solar system, which reaches high temperatures due to the reflection and …

Design and optimization of linear Fresnel reflector concentrating solar system using particle swarm optimization algorithms

M Babu, N Bhuvanesh, SS Raj, E Elavarasan - Materials Today …, 2022 - Elsevier
A linear Fresnel reflector concentrating solar system (LFRCS) is modeled and optimized to
obtain the maximum solar energy conversion. The concentration ratio is based on the …

Explicit Dynamic Analysis of Multilayer Sheet Metal Forming–A Simulatory Analysis

P Mohan Babu, M Saravanan, S Krishnakumar… - Strength of …, 2024 - Springer
The formation of sheet metal products is now widely utilized for multi-purposes in the
automotive, aerospace and in industrial sectors. In this study, the phenomenon of plastic …

Performance Examination of a CSP Plant Based on Fresnel Mirrors Coupled to Stirling Engine and Its Comparison with an Organic Rankine Cycle

L Rabhi, H El Hassani, N Boutammachte… - … on Advanced Materials …, 2023 - Springer
The present work consists of an investigation of a proposed CSP plant using Fresnel mirrors
and a Stirling engine. Different parameters were studied: average working fluid pressure …