Solar Thermal Power Generation Technology
A special issue of Technologies (ISSN 2227-7080). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 38
Special Issue Editors
Interests: heat pump; solar thermal conversion; concentrated solar power; thermal storage; organic rankine cyle; refrigeration cycle
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to capture the latest research in advanced heat collection, heat storage, and thermodynamic cycles for solar thermal power generation technology and heat batteries. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Concentrating solar power (including the design and optimization of novel concentrators, concentrator materials, and tracking and control systems for concentrators);
- Heat collection and storage (including the design and optimization of novel heat collection technology, heat storage materials, and the design and optimization of thermal storage system);
- Advanced solar heat pump cycles and their integration with storage units (including sensible heat, latent heat, and thermochemical heat);
- Solar heat-to-power conversion technology (including the supercritical CO2 cycle, organic Rankine cycle, transcritical CO2 cycle, Stirling cycle, Steam Rankine cycle, Kalina cycle, and Cascade cycle);
- Solar multi-generation system (including combined heat and power systems, advanced cooling cycle, and triple-generation system);
- System integration and optimization (including integrated solar combined cycle, solar thermal desalination, solar thermal for industrial process heat, grid integration, and forecasting and control);
- Cost analysis and economic assessment (including the levelized cost of electricity and life cycle assessment);
- Emerging concepts and technologies (including space-based solar power and thermophotovoltaics).
Articles may describe innovative concepts, numerical simulations, experimental studies, or reviews of state-of-the-art solar thermal power generation technology.
Dr. Jing Li
Dr. Pengcheng Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- concentrating solar power
- heat collection and storage
- solar multi-generation
- solar heat-to-power conversion
- system integration and optimization
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