Overview of solar technologies for electricity, heating and cooling production

Settino, Jessica; Sant, Tonio; Micallef, Christopher; Farrugia, Mario; Staines, Cyril Spiteri; Licari, John; Micallef, A.

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2018.03.112

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“…Solar Energy is an emerging technology trend in the world and the leading countries in solar production are presented as Table 2 (Jessica et al, 2018). Its installation increased from 1790MW in 2001 to 1, 37,000 MW in 2013, which is an average increase of 40% every year (Yawen et al, 2018).…”

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The Motivation for Renewable Energy and its Comparison with Other Energy Sources: A Review

Elavarasan¹

2019

European Journal of Sustainable Development Research

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Energy is the backbone of the evolution of humanity, it has assisted mankind to endeavor through various ages of history. The quest to obtain energy with minimal expenditure and pollution is still being worked on and will continue on in the future. Even in this modern age, energy production in several developing countries often falls short of energy requirements which results in frequent power cuts. As the world economy continues to grow, energy consumption is expected to continue to grow. Fossil fuel is limited, so it is important to consider other sources of energy e.g. renewables especially solar to meet the energy demands in the future. The world has diverse solar energy sources which are not yet fully explored. This review sheds light on the solar renewable energy and other non-renewable sources of energy available in the world and a comparative analysis of both the energy resources across the world is also included as a separate section titled 'Comparative analysis'. It also gives a brief overview of the various techniques employed by different countries to overcome the energy crisis through and also a framework for employing such techniques in countries which are lagging in energy production in order to fully avail the benefits of energy sources, which are abundant in the world.

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Section: Solar Energymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Motivation for Renewable Energy and its Comparison with Other Energy Sources: A Review

Elavarasan¹

2019

European Journal of Sustainable Development Research

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“…The cogeneration heat and power efficiency of the combined system reached 96.0%. Settino et al [19] provided an overview of the main solar technologies to provide heating, cooling and electricity. Zhao et al [20] explored the effects of CCHP system configurations with an ORC of 200 kW, which are clarified into sequential and parallel connections, on the system's thermodynamic performance.…”

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Comparative Analysis of Small-Scale Integrated Solar ORC-Absorption Based Cogeneration Systems

Hong

Shi

2020

Energies

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This paper aims to present a comparative study into the cascade and series configurations of the organic Rankine cycle based small-scale solar combined cooling, heating and power system for civil application. The energy performance of the systems is studied by developing a thermodynamic model. The simulation model is validated using the literature results. Analyses of the research results indicated that the cascade system can achieve maximum value of the primary energy efficiency of 13.4% for cooling and power generation under solar collecting temperature of 115 °C in cooling mode. The cascade system has more cooling output and less electricity output in cooling mode compared with the series system. In heating mode, the single solar organic Rankine cycle (ORC) operation can achieve highest primary energy efficiency of 19.6% for heating and power generation under solar collecting temperature of 100 °C. Systems with R141b as ORC working fluid show better performance than those with R123 and R1233zd(E).

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“…Solar energy is the most abundantly available source of energy theoretically. It can be used to produce electricity by thermodynamic process and by photovoltaics conversion [1]. Initially, photovoltaic technology was incepted to convert solar energy into electricity.…”

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Advances in Concentrated Solar Power: A Perspective of Heat Transfer

Alnaimat¹,

Rashid²

2019

Heat and Mass Transfer - Advances in Science and Technology Applications

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Solar energy has the potential to reduce the dependence on the dwindling supply of fossil fuels through concentrated solar power (CSP) technology. CSP plants utilize solar thermal energy to produce electrical energy based on different thermodynamic power cycles. Solar collectors, reflectors, receivers, thermal fluid, and turbines are the main components of each CSP plant and involve intensive heat transfer at all stages. This chapter illustrates the thermal characteristics of the main components used in CSP technology. In addition, the solar thermal fluid characteristics and its stable operational ranges are discussed in this chapter. Heat capacity, vapor pressure, volume expansion, density and viscosity of the thermal fluid should not differ significantly at different temperatures during various operation stages because these variations can cause failure in the system, which is designed at the fixed material properties. Currently, CSP technology is associated with a higher cost compared to the electricity generated through gas power plants. Many efforts are made to search for sustainable and inexpensive materials to minimize the cost of CSP. One critical issue faced by CSP technology is the intermittent nature of the sun. Modern CSP plants integrate thermal energy storage (TES) unit to smoothen the power production or to shift the production from peak sunshine hours to peak demand hours.

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Overview of solar technologies for electricity, heating and cooling production

Cited by 87 publications

References 96 publications

The Motivation for Renewable Energy and its Comparison with Other Energy Sources: A Review

The Motivation for Renewable Energy and its Comparison with Other Energy Sources: A Review

Comparative Analysis of Small-Scale Integrated Solar ORC-Absorption Based Cogeneration Systems

Advances in Concentrated Solar Power: A Perspective of Heat Transfer

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