Solar energy for low temperature applications

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Spray cooling for hydrogen vehicle, electronic devices, solar and building (low temperature) applications: A state-of-art review. Poongavanam GaneshKumar, ... Ramkumar Vanaraj, in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2024. 1.1 Low-temperature (LT) applications. The LT application of SC is to maintain an adequate …

(PDF) Low-Temperature Applications of Phase …

This review provides an extensive and comprehensive overview of recent investigations on integrating PCMs in the following low-temperature applications: building envelopes, passive systems in...

Low Temperature Solar Thermal Applications | Solar Energy

Chapter 8: Low Temperature Solar Thermal Applications. ... The applications of harnessing solar energy as heat are presented. The emphasis is on the practical uses of these technologies and their potential for more extensive adoption. Solar water heating, the space heating of buildings, industrial and agricultural process heating together with ...

Performance investigation of a solar-driven cascaded phase

1 · This study aims to utilize solar energy and phase change thermal storage technology to achieve low carbon cross-seasonal heating. The system is modelled using the open source EnergyPlus software ...

Recent progress in thermal and optical enhancement of low …

renewable energy sources is solar energy due to its cheap maintenance and wide applications from a temperature point of view. In this work, for the rst time, low-temperature solar collectors are reviewed and discussed for dierent types of col-lectors, and the various technical progress in thermal and optics are presented. The

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This review provides an extensive and comprehensive overview of recent investigations on integrating PCMs in the following low-temperature applications: …

Storing surplus solar energy in low temperature thermal storage …

An innovative solar energy storage concept for providing refrigeration is proposed. • A possible form of load management for photovoltaic energy. • Phase change materials are used as low-temperature thermal energy storage. • Parameter study to evaluate the energetic efficiency of the new storage concept. •

Small-Scale Phase Change Materials in Low-Temperature Applications…

Overall, low temperature applications of TES using PCM play a critical role in promoting sustainable energy practices, reducing energy waste, and ensuring a safe and comfortable environment for people and processes. Section 6 notes some of the specific, smaller scale application of these low temperature PCM uses.

Hybrid thermochemical sorption seasonal storage for ultra-low ...

The effective upgrading and utilization of low or ultra-low temperature heat (below 50 °C) could meet a significant fraction of space and water heating loads.To fulfill this goal, hybrid sorption thermal energy storage (TES) to recover ultra-low grade solar heat below 50 °C is investigated, aiming to address the issue of winter heating in …

Low temperature polycrystalline silicon: a review on deposition ...

After the report by Matsumura [46] on poly Si deposition by HWCVD ((2 2 0) oriented grains, at a substrate temperature below 450°C), many reports on poly Si deposition have been made by various groups. Matsumura [47] showed that films with an electron mobility above 20 cm 2 /V s could be achieved. Cifre et al. [48] showed that poly …

Solar energy harvesting technologies for PV self-powered applications ...

Solar energy harvesting technologies for PV self-powered ...

Solar power 101: What is solar energy? | EnergySage

This type of solar energy directly captures heat from solar radiation and uses it for several applications. There are three general types of solar thermal energy: low-temperature used for heating and cooling, mid-temperature used for heating water, and high-temperature used for electrical power generation.

Performance investigation of a solar-driven cascaded phase …

1 · This study aims to utilize solar energy and phase change thermal storage technology to achieve low carbon cross-seasonal heating. The system is modelled using the open source EnergyPlus software ...

Review on sensible thermal energy storage for industrial solar ...

Solar energy can be utilized in many industrial processes, especially in low temperature applications. Here, variability of sunlight is the main barrier for continuous process ( EESI, 2011 ). Solar energy systems are not efficient during nights- unless near the poles- or cloudy days without the use of TES technologies ( Alonso et al., 2016 ).

State-of-the-art review on water-based nanofluids for low temperature ...

Water-based NFs are suitable for low-temperature thermal applications up to 90 °C, and they are particularly well-suited for use as HTF in solar energy harvesting due to their advanced photo-thermal properties, relatively good thermal stability, and sustainable nature as compared to other traditional toxic liquids such as ethylene glycol ...

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However, pure VO 2 does not meet the requirement of smart window due to high critical temperature (τ c, about 68 °C), low luminous transmittance (T lum, lower than 40%) and poor solar modulation ability (ΔT sol, the difference between solar transmittance at low temperature and high temperature, less than 10%) (Li et al., 2012).

Recent residential applications of low-temperature solar collector

DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.123549 Corpus ID: 224933517; Recent residential applications of low-temperature solar collector @article{Ahmadi2021RecentRA, title={Recent residential applications of low-temperature solar collector}, author={A. Ahmadi and Mehdi Ali Ehyaei and Amir Doustgani and …

Low-Temperature Solar Energy Systems for Industry

Solar heat provides thermal energy for a wide variety of industrial applications. This chapter focuses on low-temperature solar energy devices, namely, …

Phase Change Materials for Low Temperature Solar Thermal Applications

Latent heat storage in a Phase Change Material (PCM) is very attractive because of its high storage density with small temperature swing. It has been demonstrated that, for the development of a latent heat storage system, the choice of the PCM plays an important role in addition to heat transfer mechanism in the PCM. The information on the latent heat …

Efficiency boost of bifacial Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin-film solar cells for ...

Efficiency boost of bifacial Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin-film solar ...

Review Solar thermal energy technologies and its applications for …

The efficiency of low temperatures solar thermal systems such as flat plate collector (FPC), evacuated tubular collector (ETC), solar pond (SP), and solar chimney …

A review on sensible heat based packed bed solar thermal …

The present review covers the sensible heat based packed bed solar thermal energy storage systems for low temperature applications. It includes a brief …

Low-Temperature Solar Energy Systems for Industry

Widespread use of solar energy in industrial applications by low and high-temperature devices or photovoltaic systems would have an essential role in reducing CO 2 emissions and providing energy security in a place. Trends in global industrial energy demand suggest a 1.3% rise per year until 2030.

Recent progress in thermal and optical enhancement of low temperature ...

The use of renewable energy systems including wind, geothermal, and solar is increasing on a daily basis at industrial and domestic applications scale. The restrictions and regulations imposed by developed and developing countries on the industrial sector to reduce greenhouse gases emission have a significant effect on the progress …

Applications of radiative sky cooling in solar energy systems: …

In addition to low-temperature solar PT applications, there is another category of solar thermal technology that firstly heats the heat transfer fluid (HTF) to a high-level temperature (usually above 400 °C [14]) through concentrated solar PT and then employs this high-temperature heat source to drive the power block, which is widely …

Solar thermal collectors and applications

1.. IntroductionThe sun is a sphere of intensely hot gaseous matter with a diameter of 1.39×10 9 m. The solar energy strikes our planet a mere 8 min and 20 s after leaving the giant furnace, the sun which is 1.5×10 11 m away. The sun has an effective blackbody temperature of 5762 K [1].The temperature in the central region is much …

Spray cooling for hydrogen vehicle, electronic devices, solar and ...

Presently, SC technology is widely used in various heat transfer applications. Passive cooling approaches are less effective for fast cooling of many applications, namely hydrogen and electric vehicles [4], solar applications [5, 6], electronic cooling [[7], [8]], building cooling [9], etc. SC occurs when a fluid is forced …

Eutectic mixtures of some fatty acids for low temperature solar …

The DSC thermal data obtained for the investigated fatty acid binary systems are given in Table 1, Table 2, Table 3, respectively.The following general results can be derived from the tables: the melting temperatures of the binary systems are lower than those of the single acids, and the temperature ranges are becoming narrow while …

Eutectic mixtures of some fatty acids for low temperature solar …

Eutectic mixtures of some fatty acids for low temperature solar heating applications: Thermal properties and thermal reliability. ... Low temperature latent thermal energy storage system: heat storage materials. Solar Energy, 30 (1983), pp. 313-332. View PDF View article View in Scopus Google Scholar [2]