Yearly performance of low-enthalpy parabolic trough collectors in MENA region according to different sun-tracking strategies

Allouhi, A.; Amine, M. Benzakour; Kousksou, T.; Jamil, A.; Lahrech, Khadija

doi:10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2017.09.099

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“…Goals have been established to increase the percentage of renewable energy electricity generation capacity (42% by 2020 and 52% by 2030 – see Fig. 1 ) and objectives to decrease energy consumption by 12% by 2020 and 15% by 2030 through energy efficiency enhancements [18] , [19] , [20] , [21] . For comparison, the European Commission has adopted a mandatory goal of achieving 32% of renewable energy by 2030, with the possibility of revising this target upwards by 2023 [22] .…”

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Towards a large-scale integration of renewable energies in Morocco

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Kousksou

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Journal of Energy Storage

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Towards a large-scale integration of renewable energies in Morocco

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Lebrouhi

Kousksou

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“…Indeed, the country imports more than 93% of its energy needs from abroad [1], which dramatically affects its economy. Nevertheless, Morocco has a great solar potential [1,2,3] that can be used to produce electricity from both Photovoltaic (PV) and Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) technologies [4,5,6] with high efficiency [7,8,9,10]. For that reasons, the country launched a huge project to produce 2000MW of electricity from solar.…”

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Degradation and performance analysis of a monocrystalline PV system without EVA encapsulating in semi-arid climate

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Bouaichi

Zitouni

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The objective of the current paper is to evaluate the performances drop of a photovoltaic system composed of a new PV module conception without EVA encapsulation. After three years of operation under harsh atmospheric condition at Green Energy Park research facility, in the mid-south of Morocco, the system shows an energy drop around 1.8kWhe in one of its strings. For this reason, an inspection (in-situ and at the lab level) to evaluate and detect the source of this energy drop has been done using the IV-Curve, IR thermal and Electroluminescence. Results show that the Performance Ratio (PR) of the affected string reaches 13%. Besides, two modules from this last one showed a degradation rate (Rd) greater than 4.12 %. It has been found that the main cause of this energy drop is due to the presence of breakages and crack at the modules cells. Those deceases are caused by a bad manual cleaning, as well as, for the nature of the modules, without EVA protection against the mechanical shocks.

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“…Solar energy utilization is an important weapon for facing numerous problems as the global warming, the fossil fuel depletion and the high price of electricity. Solar concentrating technologies are promising solutions for producing heat at medium and high temperatures [1,2]. Numerous applications as desalination, space-heating, space-cooling, industrial heat, power production, and chemical processes can utilize the solar energy.…”

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Daily performance of a solar dish collector

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Solar energy exploitation is one of the most promising techniques for achieving the sustainability in the energy domain. The objective of this work is to investigate the daily performance of a solar dish collector under different operating temperature levels. A solar dish collector with 10.28 m 2 aperture and a spiral coil absorber is investigated. The analysis is performed with a developed numerical model in engineering equation solver which has been validated with experimental results. The analysis proved that the daily thermal efficiency of the collector is ranged from 67.36% to 54.65% for inlet temperatures from 50 °C to 350 °C, respectively. On the other hand, the exergy efficiency presents an increasing rate of the inlet temperature and it is found to be ranged from 8.77% up to 31.07% for the respective temperatures. The daily exergy production of the collector can reach up to 26 kWh with a respective thermal production of 50 kWh for inlet temperature equal to 350 °C. The results of this work can be exploited for the suitable evaluation of the solar dish collector on a daily basis.

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Yearly performance of low-enthalpy parabolic trough collectors in MENA region according to different sun-tracking strategies

Cited by 21 publications

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Towards a large-scale integration of renewable energies in Morocco

Towards a large-scale integration of renewable energies in Morocco

Degradation and performance analysis of a monocrystalline PV system without EVA encapsulating in semi-arid climate

Daily performance of a solar dish collector

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