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Advanced Solar Technologies and Thermal Energy Storage
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As widely recognized in the literature, solar energy is a renewable, abundant, widely distributed, and sustainable renewable source. For these reasons, solar technologies represent a potential strategy for decarbonization to ensure greener energy production. Nonetheless, the main drawback of solar energy is its intermittent behavior that changes with the alternation of day and night, weather conditions, and seasons, thus requiring heat storage to alleviate this limit.
This special issue, "Advanced Solar Technologies and Thermal Energy Storage", focuses on studies of different uses of solar energy, possibly coupled with heat storage systems, to improve the spread of solar technologies and define their state of the art in different research fields. For this reason, original papers, reviews, and perspective papers that discuss solar technologies and their uses are welcome.
Dr. Marco Francesconi
Dr. Elisa Sani
Dr. Mario Petrollese
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- solar energy and thermal energy storage systems
- concentrated solar power
- solar thermal and PV systems
- thermal energy storage
- solar desalination
- solar heating
- air heaters
- solar industrial process
- solar residential uses
- solar water treatment
- solar gasification
- solar propulsion
- solar cooling
- solar chemical processes
- integrated solar energy systems
- numerical simulations
- optic
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