{"title":"Optimizing the Operational Parameters of an Electrochemical Purification Cell for Corrosion Mitigation in CSP Plants During Operation","authors":"K. Rippy, E. Howard, L. Witteman, J. Vidal","doi":"10.18086/solar.2021.01.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18086/solar.2021.01.01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":216647,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the SOLAR 2021 Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116103486","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":"True Sustainability With Low Embodied Energy","authors":"J. Clemens","doi":"10.18086/solar.2021.01.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18086/solar.2021.01.08","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":216647,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the SOLAR 2021 Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129009977","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":"Reuse of Solar Photovoltaic Systems for Social and Economic Benefit","authors":"R. Stromberg","doi":"10.18086/solar.2021.01.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18086/solar.2021.01.07","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":216647,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the SOLAR 2021 Conference","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129208550","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":"A review on Solar Thermal System Design, Integration, and Techno-economic Modeling for Industrial Heating and Cooling Processes","authors":"Yacob Gebreyohannes Hiben, M. Kahsay, J. Lauwaert","doi":"10.18086/solar.2021.01.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18086/solar.2021.01.02","url":null,"abstract":"The utilization of solar thermal energy has been ranging from simple fire starting using a pocket mirror to the solar architecture used in various ways. Solar thermal applications are indispensable and crucial technologies with increasing attention in renewable energy research for their high energy conversion efficiency and energy storage density. Solar collectors can absorb nearly the entire solar spectrum; around 50% of the sun's energy is invisible to the human eye in the infrared spectrum, as heat. Thermal energy storage (TES) can store on average around 10, 000 kW for about 6 hours. Financially, solar thermal energy conversion systems in many locations have reached gridparity (EUR 0.02 0.05/kWh for low-temperature and EUR 0.05 0.15/kWh for medium-temperature applications). Thus, solar heating and cooling (SHC) systems are identified as typical application areas for the huge technical potential of solar thermal integration (up to 5.6EJ in 2050) available within industries that are predominantly being met with environmentally unfriendly and less available fossil fuels. The scope of this review is, therefore, to demonstrate the state-of-the-art for basic energy generation and supply concepts of solar thermal systems for industrial application. The paper presents the basic solar thermal system design, configuration, operation, and possible integration concepts with an existing conventional system. It also describes the techno-economic mathematical models and analysis techniques for solar thermal system key performance indicators. Accordingly, this paper can be used as a brief extract and guide to systematically approach industrial solar system development projects using best practices adopted to explore the contributions of the researchers in the literature.","PeriodicalId":216647,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the SOLAR 2021 Conference","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116736189","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}
F. Vignola, J. Peterson, R. Kessler, S. Snider, P. Gotseff, M. Sengupta, A. Habte, A. Andreas, F. Mavromatakis
{"title":"Influence of Diffuse and Ground-Reflected Irradiance on the Spectral Modeling of Solar Reference Cells","authors":"F. Vignola, J. Peterson, R. Kessler, S. Snider, P. Gotseff, M. Sengupta, A. Habte, A. Andreas, F. Mavromatakis","doi":"10.18086/solar.2021.01.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18086/solar.2021.01.06","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":216647,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the SOLAR 2021 Conference","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124539455","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":"A Study of Reflector-Enhanced Bifacial PV","authors":"Matthew Rueter, Mariam Dobosz, Richard D. Wilk","doi":"10.18086/solar.2021.01.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18086/solar.2021.01.05","url":null,"abstract":"Bifacial solar PV is a promising technology that can increase the amount of power generated by harvesting power on both sides of a module. Understanding how best to configure the geometry of these bifacial solar collectors is non-trivial as many geometric factors (tilt, ground reflectance (albedo), height above ground, row spacing, module spacing) tend to be interdependent, requiring a case by case analysis in order to optimize the total power output and maintain the frontside incident irradiance while maximizing the backside gain. In addition, as with monofacial modules, use of planar reflectors can be a cost effective way of increasing the incident irradiance, in the case of bifacial modules, on both sides of the module. However, the addition of reflectors adds to the challenge of optimizing the system configuration. The work described here presents an experimental and modeling study of reflector enhanced bifacial modules. Experiments were conducted on bifacial modules with and without reflector augmentation and compared against monofacial PV modules, assessing the effects of specular and diffuse reflectors. A model was developed to calculate the incident and reflected irradiance on the front and back sides of the modules. Beam insolation components were handled with ray tracing and sky and reflected diffuse components were handled with view factors.","PeriodicalId":216647,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the SOLAR 2021 Conference","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129636446","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":"Community Solar Food Drying in Afghanistan","authors":"R. Foster, F. Fazli","doi":"10.18086/solar.2021.01.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18086/solar.2021.01.04","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":216647,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the SOLAR 2021 Conference","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115148946","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}