A Graduate Research of the Hybridization of High Concentrated Solar Panel and Anaerobic Production and Desalination

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and then full professor in 2000 in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering. He has received numerous awards including a scholarship award (Fulbright), teaching awards, best paper awards, community service awards, and admission as an Eminent Engineer into Tau Beta Pi. His research on passive radon-resistant new residential building construction was adapted in HB1647 building code of Florida Legislature. Najafi is a member of numerous professional societies and has served on many committees and programs, and continuously attends and presents refereed papers at international, national, and local professional meetings and conferences. Lastly, Najafi attends courses, seminars and workshops, and has developed courses, videos and software packages during his career. His areas of specialization include transportation planning and management, legal aspects, construction contract administration, and public works. AbstractHigh concentration photovoltaics (HCPV) have become popular new types of solar technology. Compared to traditional photovoltaic panels, HCPV systems are potentially more efficient and cost-effective. However, HCPV's operation will cause high temperature on the panel surface, which causes a heat waste and deficiency of HCPV. Meanwhile, the anaerobic production and desalination plant need a highly demand of heat resource. The paper uses TRNSYS software to design a hybridization system with 500 suns concentration's HCPV, multi-stage flash desalination and anaerobic tank. The 0.01 m2 size HCPV system achieves a max electricity output at 300 W. Meanwhile the hybridization can operate desalination plant with 0.5 distillation ratio and anaerobic digestion at 3.2 m3 per hour. The study of a graduate research of the hybridization of high concentrated solar panel and anaerobic production and desalination would fit the call in the graduate division and it is consistent with the division objectives. Furthermore, the study is relevant to the ASEE division's mission and the scope is interdisciplinary including design, development and research. The research paper is relevant to Chi Xu's Ph.D. dissertation. Furthermore, the information is also used in a graduate level public works engineering and management class that is offered each fall semester. This makes it relevant to the theme of the ASEE Graduate Studies Division. IntroductionThe solar energy is an ideal energy can gain from the sun, as a type of renewable energy, solar energy has its advantage: widespread, low contamination and flexibility. High concentrated photovoltaics is new solar technology which can produce electricity cost-effectively. By using a reflection system to concentrate solar radiation can decrease cost and increase the efficiency. HCPV uses cooling system to cool down the high level heat received from solar concentration. However, cooling system can't use the potential energy from the heat, thus the heat is 'waste'. In order to reuse the energy and demonstrate the concept of renewable energy, the paper will design the hybridization the ...