Recent Advances in Solar Power Plants 2024
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 (30 November 2024) | Viewed by 2588
Special Issue Editors
Interests: renewable energy; renewable energy technologies; energy engineering; thermal engineering; energy conversion; power generation; engineering thermodynamics; energy efficiency in building; solar power plants
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Interests: concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP); solar thermal energy; energy-efficient windows; water harvesting; porous materials; transparent aerogel; solar decathlon
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Concentrating solar power (CSP), is, today, a renewable energy alternative to PV or wind in terms of energy management. Although these competitors are cheaper, coupling with energy storage now gives the advantage to CSP to be a relevant electric network input or even a reliable heat process source. Moreover, the scientific community is supporting continuous advances in improving known technologies and totally disruptive concepts.
Some examples of new advances are improvements to thermal oil solar fields, new thermodynamic cycle concepts, etc. Collecting information on these new advances in CSP is one of the goals of this Special Issue, focusing on the following ideas:
- Concentrating solar power plant improvements;
- O&M experiences;
- Heat process concepts;
- New thermodynamic concepts;
- Disruptive CSP technologies and ideas;
- Thermal energy storage;
- Heat process production and management.
Dr. Javier Muñoz-Antón
Dr. Sungwoo Yang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- renewable energy
- renewable energy technologies
- energy engineering
- thermal engineering
- energy conversion
- power generation
- engineering thermodynamics
- energy efficiency in building
- solar power plants
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