Y. Nassar, Samer Alsadi, K. Ali, A. Yousef, A. Massoud
{"title":"Numerical Analysis and Optimization of Area Contribution of The PV Cells in the PV/T Flat-Plate Solar Air Heating Collector","authors":"Y. Nassar, Samer Alsadi, K. Ali, A. Yousef, A. Massoud","doi":"10.31875/2410-2199.2019.06.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31875/2410-2199.2019.06.5","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a practical design of combination solar photovoltaic panel (PV) and an ordinary flat-plate air heating solar collector (FPSC. (The offered collector generated both electrical and thermal power for many applications such as (drying, heating, cooling, etc...). The PV cells are placed in the entrance of the (FPSC), the design avoids the temperature increasing of the PV. In this paper the photovoltaic thermal (PV/T) collector energy analysis were carried out. A mathematical model has been built in order to determine the optimum contribution ratio of the PV cells in the offered collector. The model takes into account the variation of the electrical characteristics with solar radiation and the PV cell's temperature. The obtained results have shown that for a (PV/T) collector of 3m long, the maximum energy extracted from the collector, when the length of the PV panel is 2.4 m and the rest of the collector is ordinary FPSC. Furthermore, the electrical efficiency and the thermal efficiency of the PV/T system was found to be higher than that of the conventional separated systems.","PeriodicalId":197215,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Solar Energy Research Updates","volume":"336 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133014751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B.D. Plourde, A. Gikling, T. Marsh, M.A. Riemenschneider, J.L. Fitzgerald, W.J. Minkowycz, J. Kiplagat, J.P. Abraham
{"title":"Design and Evaluation of a Concentrated Solar-Powered Thermal-Pasteurization System","authors":"B.D. Plourde, A. Gikling, T. Marsh, M.A. Riemenschneider, J.L. Fitzgerald, W.J. Minkowycz, J. Kiplagat, J.P. Abraham","doi":"10.31875/2410-2199.2019.06.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31875/2410-2199.2019.06.4","url":null,"abstract":"A device has been designed, constructed, and tested for heating fluids using solar energy. The device heats water to levels to kill pathogens by a parabolic reflecting surface that concentrates solar energy along an axis. Among the components that increase the thermal performance of the system is a thermally actuated valve, which controls the temperature and the thermal exposure duration of the fluid to cause deactivation of targeted pathogens. Also, a novel fluid-to-fluid heat exchanger arranged in counter flow is used.\u0000Experiments were performed with a water solution containing non-pathogenic Escherichia coli K-12 MG1655 (E. coli) bacteria. The results showed that the system is capable of pasteurization to levels where no living pathogens were detected in the heated fluid. The experiments were carried out over a wide range of temperatures and exposure durations to test the device and the underlying mathematical model. E. coli log reductions greater than 1 were achieved in all cases and it is shown that arbitrary values of reduction can be achieved with appropriate temperature/time settings.","PeriodicalId":197215,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Solar Energy Research Updates","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127576431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Combustion of Emulsified Glycerol-Heavy Oil Fuel Droplet","authors":"S. Soulayman, K. Youssef","doi":"10.31875/2410-2199.2018.05.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31875/2410-2199.2018.05.5","url":null,"abstract":"In this work the evaporation of the emulsified glycerol- heavy fuel oil (CG-HFO) droplets with different activator is modeled. The influence of activator gas bubbles volume developments on the evaporation of fuel droplets in the high temperature combustion chamber is studied. The crude glycerol as the secondary product of biodiesel production is used as the first component of the emulsion while the second component is heavy fuel oil. The crude glycerol contains methanol, aromatics, minerals, a little bit biodiesel and water. These materials were pressurized and injected in the chamber with three inputs: the first one is for the CG-HFO, the second one is for activator while the third one is for air for forming the emulsion and then passing to the combustion chamber. The applied pressure is determined according to contents which lead to flame stability of the primary formed emulation. A comparison of calculated results, basing on semi-empirical method, with experimental ones demonstrates the modeling acceptable accuracy.","PeriodicalId":197215,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Solar Energy Research Updates","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114668293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Annual and Seasonal Trends of Solar Radiation in Athens, Greece","authors":"Harry D. Kambezidis","doi":"10.31875/2410-2199.2018.05.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31875/2410-2199.2018.05.3","url":null,"abstract":"This study deals with the solar radiation levels recorded at the Actinometric Station of the National Observatory of Athens, focusing on the trends of the global and diffuse horizontal irradiances in the period of 1992-2017 (26 years). The analysis shows that the annual global radiation time series over Athens in the above period presents a positive trend (+0.40%/decade and +2.38%/decade for all and clear skies, respectively), while its diffuse counterpart shows negative trend (-5.19%/decade and -6.77%/decade for the same sky conditions, respectively) during the same period. Also, the seasonal trends of both solar radiation components are examined. The global horizontal radiation shows positive trends in summer (+1.85%/decade and +2.10%/decade under all and clear skies, respectively), while a negative trend is calculated in the winter season (-2.46%/decade and -1.99%/decade for the same sky conditions, respectively). In the case of the diffuse solar radiation there are found negative trends in both seasons and both sky conditions. These findings confirm a recovery in the solar radiation levels over Athens in the recent 26 years.","PeriodicalId":197215,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Solar Energy Research Updates","volume":"405 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114918863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hisato Kato, Yuki Yamamoto, Shinya Kato, Naoki Kishi, Tetsuo Soga
{"title":"Fabrication and Evaluation of Two-Junction Carbon Thin Film Photovoltaic Devices","authors":"Hisato Kato, Yuki Yamamoto, Shinya Kato, Naoki Kishi, Tetsuo Soga","doi":"10.31875/2410-2199.2018.05.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31875/2410-2199.2018.05.1","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, we have fabricated the two-junction carbon photovoltaic devices which consisted of Al/fullerene (C60)/amorphous carbon (a-C)/C60/a-C/ITO glass structure. We also investigated their photovoltaic properties with the same bandgap and without involving the tunnel-connect layer. We found that the open-circuit voltage in the two-junction photovoltaic device almost doubled compared to the single-junction type and it confirmed that the tandem structure was successfully formed without any tunnel-junction although short-circuit current in the two-junction tended to decrease greatly in comparison to single-junction. Moreover, we studied the effect of film thickness of each film on the photovoltaic properties of two-junction carbon photovoltaic devices and as a result, there was a dependence of film thickness on the photovoltaic performance in the two-junction type. Thus, it can be concluded that the film thickness is one of the significant influences to enhance the photovoltaic performances and our results might be an important approach for fabricating the higher efficiency of two-junction carbon thin film photovoltaic devices made of different band gap.","PeriodicalId":197215,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Solar Energy Research Updates","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122855868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Commercial Scale Solar Power Generation (5MW to 50 MW) and its Connection to Distribution Power Network in the United Kingdom","authors":"Jayanta Deb Mondol, Gibu Jacob","doi":"10.31875/2410-2199.2018.05.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31875/2410-2199.2018.05.4","url":null,"abstract":"Over the years, the contribution of solar photovoltaic systems to the power generation is expected to grow through household small scale, and commercial scale solar installation. Researcher pronouncing that delivering such a determination require greater motivation and innovation and much more dynamic power grid network to manage solar generation connection. This research work identifies and recommends the possibilities of applying proven technical know how to get the maximum from the existing power network economically. The simulated case study examples of various capacity connection requests was carried out to provide key insights on the problems faced by the PV farm connections in their line of business. This research is also an effort to give many answers to solar PV developers and enthusiasts who are not very technical and confused about different money saving connection options and the electrical constraints of the power grid. This study data can be used to provide recommendations to further enhance the growth of commercial scale solar power generation in the UK.","PeriodicalId":197215,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Solar Energy Research Updates","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130403589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}