Advances in Distributed-Scale Solar Thermal Power Technology
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A2: Solar Energy and Photovoltaic Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 June 2021) | Viewed by 632
Special Issue Editors
Interests: distributed power generation; turbomachinery; gas turbines; waste heat recovery; solar thermal
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The guest editor is inviting you to submit a paper to a Special Issue of Energies in the area of “Advances in distributed-scale solar thermal power technology”. Solar collectors, concentrators, receivers and prime mover technologies, as well as system design and integration, and control and hybridisation have been evolving in recent years with the aim of delivering cost effective and reliable clean power generation. Moreover, component and system optimisation, as well as techno-economic optimisation, life cycle analysis, market and cost analysis are also important topics.
This Special Issue will focus on, but is not necessarily restricted to, solar thermal systems and hybrid systems. Topics of interest for publication include:
- Solar dish systems
- Small heliostat systems
- Any other solar collector or concentrator technology
- Solar-powered micro gas turbines
- Solar-powered Stirling Engines
- Solar-powered organic Rankine cycles
- Solar thermal-only systems
- Hybridisation with biofuels and thermal storage
- Operation optimisation and flexibility
- Control strategies
- Techno-economics analysis and optimisation
- Stand alone and farm arrangements
- Life cycle analysis
- Grid connections
- Economics and Market analysis
Prof. Abdulnaser Sayma
Dr. Jafar Al Zaili
Dr. Martin White
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- Concentrated solar power
- Solar dish
- Small heliostat
- Micro gas turbines
- Stirling engines
- Organic Rankine cycles
- Thermal energy storage
- Control strategies
- Hybridisation
- Life cycle analysis
- Techno-economic optimisation
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