TY - GEN
T1 - Concentrated Solar Power Technology and Thermal Energy Storage
T2 - 7th International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference, IRSEC 2019
AU - Onu, P.
AU - Mbohwa, C.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/11
Y1 - 2019/11
N2 - Concentrated solar power (CSP) is mainly encouraged to harness the solar energy for producing electricity. The CSP technologies are highly dependent on the efficient reflector and receiver designs, working medium and thermal storage technologies to produce intermittent electrical power with several options like hybrid, peak load operations, co-generation, etcetera. The receivers have smaller aperture areas such that they operate under higher concentration ratios to produce high temperature at the focus. Construction materials of receiver and heat transfer mediums are vital to extracting more solar energy from the mirror fields or parabolic collectors. Phase change materials (PCM) are found to have numerous applications in the energy collection and storage systems. This article provides the recent developments in the concentrated solar receivers and the future direction in the receiver technology.
AB - Concentrated solar power (CSP) is mainly encouraged to harness the solar energy for producing electricity. The CSP technologies are highly dependent on the efficient reflector and receiver designs, working medium and thermal storage technologies to produce intermittent electrical power with several options like hybrid, peak load operations, co-generation, etcetera. The receivers have smaller aperture areas such that they operate under higher concentration ratios to produce high temperature at the focus. Construction materials of receiver and heat transfer mediums are vital to extracting more solar energy from the mirror fields or parabolic collectors. Phase change materials (PCM) are found to have numerous applications in the energy collection and storage systems. This article provides the recent developments in the concentrated solar receivers and the future direction in the receiver technology.
KW - concentrated solar power
KW - parabolic collectors
KW - phase change material
KW - thermal storage
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85084636891&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/IRSEC48032.2019.9078156
DO - 10.1109/IRSEC48032.2019.9078156
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85084636891
T3 - Proceedings of 2019 7th International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference, IRSEC 2019
BT - Proceedings of 2019 7th International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference, IRSEC 2019
A2 - El Hibaoui, Abdelaaziz
A2 - Essaaidi, Mohamed
A2 - Zaz, Youssef
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 27 November 2019 through 30 November 2019
ER -
