Article
Energy & Fuels
Cristina Prieto, Francisco Javier Pino, Luisa F. Cabeza
Summary: This study evaluates the technoeconomic potential of a CSP plant with high temperature concrete as TES system compared to the standard commercial molten salts system, and finds that the molten salt system performs better than the high temperature concrete configuration in general conditions.
JOURNAL OF ENERGY STORAGE
(2023)
Article
Energy & Fuels
L. G. Redelinghuys, C. McGregor
Summary: This study examines the application of a Carnot battery in a conventional parabolic trough concentrating solar power plant. The results show that under certain conditions, imported renewable energy is stored at the expense of solar thermal energy, leading to unnecessary overcharging of the storage. The study also finds that smaller-sized parabolic trough solar fields can reduce and delay solar thermal curtailment caused by heater integration.
JOURNAL OF ENERGY STORAGE
(2023)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Cristina Prieto, Luisa F. Cabeza
Summary: The new PCM concept can lower the levelized costs of storage, but further cost reductions are possible through enhancements in thermal conductivity, encapsulation of PCM, or material modification for better thermal properties. While the baseline shell and tube PCM system offers cost savings, a 1.8% reduction in LCOE may not justify the risk of further development. Instead, the shell and tube system should serve as a starting point for more appropriate technologies. The variants studied could potentially result in cost reductions in CPQ as high as 80% and in LCOE as high as 10%, representing a unique and valuable avenue for reducing CSP plant costs.
JOURNAL OF ENERGY STORAGE
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Jose Antonio Velez Godino, Miguel Torres Garcia
Summary: The current context of the climate emergency calls for the decarbonization of the energy sector through the adoption of renewable energy sources. Concentrating solar power (CSP) technology has emerged as a commercially viable alternative, although it is hampered by high production costs and the challenge of managing production during temporary variations in solar resource availability. This study proposes the hybridization of CSP technology with direct biomass combustion, presenting an innovative process scheme that deviates from traditional configurations. The techno-economic evaluation of this novel configuration in a small-scale power plant reveals the potential for a cost-effective and sustainable energy solution.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2023)
Article
Thermodynamics
Abdullah A. Al Kindi, Paul Sapin, Antonio M. Pantaleo, Kai Wang, Christos N. Markides
Summary: This study analyzes the thermo-economic performance of steam accumulation and integrated concrete-steam TES options in direct steam generation concentrated solar power (CSP) plants. The results show that the integrated concrete-steam TES option provides higher TES capacity, electricity output, and thermal efficiency compared to the traditional steam accumulation option, while reducing costs.
ENERGY CONVERSION AND MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
I. Arias, J. Cardemil, E. Zarza, L. Valenzuela, R. Escobar
Summary: Solar thermal technologies for power generation have become cost-effective and efficient, and play a prominent role in achieving low-carbon energy systems. Concentrated solar power is the main solar technology for large-scale power generation, offering thermal energy storage capacity and delivering power to the grid with high reliability and low cost. Continuous efforts are being made to improve the scalability, reliability, functionality, and performance of concentrated solar thermal components and heat transfer fluids for third-generation concentrated solar power plants.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2022)
Review
Energy & Fuels
Sara Pascual, Pilar Lisbona, Luis M. Romeo
Summary: Thermal energy storage (TES) is an effective solution to enhance the dispatchability of concentrating solar power (CSP) plants. The use of novel TES materials can reduce costs and improve the thermal performance of associated power blocks. This review provides an overview of CSP technologies, TES technologies, and TES-CSP configurations in currently operational facilities, as well as the research and development projects conducted in Europe and North America over the past decade. The review presents data on project details, including TES-CSP configurations, technologies applied, storage capacity, power block information, and levelized cost of electricity (LCOE), as well as project location, research period, project leader, and budget information.
Review
Engineering, Multidisciplinary
Wenjin Ding, Thomas Bauer
Summary: Concentrated solar power plants with thermal energy storage systems are emerging as a promising option for future renewable energy systems. The next generation CSP technology aims to reduce electricity costs and improve performance by utilizing higher process temperatures and greater energy efficiency.
Article
Energy & Fuels
Anke Silvia Ulrich, Clara Schlereth, Benjamin Gregoire, Florian Sutter, Ceyhun Oskay, Christina Hildebrandt, Mathias Christian Galetz
Summary: Receiver systems in concentrated solar power plants are required to withstand harsh desert conditions and high temperatures, while maintaining high efficiency in converting solar radiation to thermal energy. Improving the lifetime of high-absorbing receiver coatings is crucial for enhancing the economic efficiency of these plants. Diffusion coatings based on Cr and Mn have self-healing properties, forming black Cr-Mn-oxides in situ. Oxidation tests at temperatures between 527 and 710 degrees Celsius for up to 100 hours show high solar absorptance and optical coating efficiency, with the best performance observed at around 650 degrees Celsius. The mechanism of oxide formation and coating consumption is proposed, highlighting the importance of Mn diffusion.
SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS
(2023)
Article
Thermodynamics
F. G. Battisti, L. A. de Araujo Passos, A. K. da Silva
Summary: This study investigates the performance of a packed-bed thermal energy storage (TES) system using supercritical carbon dioxide (s-CO2) through a 1-D computational porous medium-based model and thermal-hydraulic analysis. The results suggest design trends and optimization possibilities for s-CO2-based systems, showing that system efficiency can be improved by adjusting operational and dimensional parameters.
APPLIED THERMAL ENGINEERING
(2021)
Review
Energy & Fuels
Khadija El Alami, Mohamed Asbik, Reda Boualou, Fatima-zahra Ouchani, Hassan Agalit, El Ghali Bennouna, Samir Rachidi
Summary: This study provides a global overview of natural Moroccan rocks as thermal storage materials, and compares and evaluates three types of rocks to select the most potential ones. Empirical correlations of thermal properties such as heat capacity, volumetric thermal capacity, and thermal conductivity were established based on existing experimental results. Additionally, new natural Moroccan rocks were identified.
JOURNAL OF ENERGY STORAGE
(2022)
Review
Energy & Fuels
Luisa F. Cabeza, Emiliano Borri, Cristina Prieto
Summary: This paper assesses the research trends and topics in the field of concentrating solar power (CSP) through bibliometric analysis. The results show that the latest approaches for corrosion migration in CSP plants include selective coatings and the use of nanoparticles. The techniques used to evaluate corrosion results are mainly scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, and electrochemical testing, but new dynamic techniques are emerging.
Article
Engineering, Marine
Tomislav Pesa, Maja Krcum, Grgo Kero, Josko Soda
Summary: This study analyzed the possibility of applying renewable energy sources such as solar and wind energy on existing vessels through technical and economic analysis. The results showed that using these renewable energy sources can save operating costs and reduce harmful gas emissions.
JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
(2022)
Review
Energy & Fuels
Tawfiq Chekifi, Moustafa Boukraa
Summary: This research aims to provide additional knowledge for the development of thermal storage technology. In concentrating solar power plants, maintaining the sustainability of electrical energy production during the absence of solar power is crucial for economic competitiveness. Thermocline is considered a favorable solution for achieving cost reduction in thermal power storage system. Understanding the behavior of such a system is essential for improving its performance.
JOURNAL OF ENERGY STORAGE
(2022)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Paul Caicedo, David Wood, Craig Johansen
Summary: Solar chimney power plants collect heated air on the ground and use turbines near the base of a tall chimney to produce renewable electricity. Site-specific designs and variable sizes require purpose-built turbines. A new radial inflow turbine design is proposed and simulated for potential use in SCPPs, showing high power output and efficiency compared to existing designs.
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Pavlos Nikolaidis, Andreas Poullikkas
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2017)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Pavlos Nikolaidis, Andreas Poullikkas
IET GENERATION TRANSMISSION & DISTRIBUTION
(2020)
Article
Thermodynamics
Pavlos Nikolaidis, Andreas Poullikkas
Summary: The increasing share of low-carbon energy is creating reliability disturbances in modern power systems. Renewable resources are categorized into firm, variable, and uncertain based on their origin. System operators need to plan ahead for spinning reserves to cope with the impact of variable and uncertain renewables on residual load.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Pavlos Nikolaidis, Andreas Poullikkas
Summary: This study quantifies the impact of intermittent renewable energy sources on total production cost and the benefits of electricity storage using a Genetic algorithm-driven priority list approach. Experimental evaluation shows cost improvements in terms of thermal generation improvement, lower renewable generation curtailment and load shedding avoidance cost.
IET RENEWABLE POWER GENERATION
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Pavlos Nikolaidis, Andreas Poullikkas
Summary: Global efforts towards de-carbonization pose significant energy challenges, including increasing renewable energy usage and finding alternative energy sources for a sustainable transition. Recent trends focus on reducing fuel consumption and emissions through carbon capture and storage, as well as more efficient energy carriers. Natural gas and hydrogen are key alternative energy sources in the coming years.
Article
Energy & Fuels
Pavlos Nikolaidis, Sotirios Chatzis, Andreas Poullikkas
ENERGY SYSTEMS-OPTIMIZATION MODELING SIMULATION AND ECONOMIC ASPECTS
(2020)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Pavlos Nikolaidis, Sotirios Chatzis, Andreas Poullikkas
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE ENERGY
(2019)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Pavlos Nikolaidis, Sotirios Chatzis, Andreas Poullikkas
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE ENERGY
(2019)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Pavlos Nikolaidis, Andreas Poullikkas
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES AND ASSESSMENTS
(2018)
Review
Energy & Fuels
Pavlos Nikolaidis, Andreas Poullikkas
JOURNAL OF POWER TECHNOLOGIES
(2017)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Mohammad Saghafifar, Andreas Poullikkas
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE ENERGY
(2017)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Andreas Poullikkas
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE ENERGY
(2016)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Mohammad Saghafifar, Andreas Poullikkas
JOURNAL OF POWER TECHNOLOGIES
(2015)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Andreas Poullikkas
JOURNAL OF POWER TECHNOLOGIES
(2015)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Andreas Poullikkas
JOURNAL OF POWER TECHNOLOGIES
(2018)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
M. Genovese, F. Piraino, P. Fragiacomo
Summary: This research proposes the concept of a hydrogen valley in southern Italy, where hydrogen is produced centrally and delivered via fuel cell hybrid trains to refueling stations, providing transportation services. The analysis from both technical and economic perspectives shows that the cost of hydrogen and energy efficiency reached competitive levels, and hydrogen rail transport offers significant benefits in terms of emissions reduction and economic gains compared to conventional diesel trains and fully electric trains.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Miaomiao Liu, Payam Nejat, Pinlu Cao, Carlos Jimenez-Bescos, John Kaiser Calautit
Summary: This article provides a critical review of the performance of windcatchers, pointing out the current research gaps and issues, and proposing directions for further investigation and market prospects.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Solomon Boadu, Ebenezer Otoo
Summary: Despite Africa's vast energy resources, including wind energy, the continent faces challenges in developing its wind energy industry. Northern African countries and South Africa currently dominate the wind energy sector in Africa. To uplift Africa's socio-economic status, strong political will, supportive policies, and institutional frameworks are needed to drive the development of wind energy and overcome existing challenges.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
E. K. Grubbs, S. M. Gruss, V. Z. Schull, M. J. Gosney, M. V. Mickelbart, S. Brouder, M. W. Gitau, P. Bermel, M. R. Tuinstra, R. Agrawal
Summary: As the global population grows, the demand for food, energy, and water will increase significantly. However, limited land availability and competition for solar resources pose challenges to resource generation technologies. In the United States, both agriculture and solar energy production have adopted densification schemes to improve yields and energy output per unit of land. This research proposes an Agrivoltaic food and energy coproduction architecture that optimizes power generation while maintaining crop productivity by implementing ideal anti-tracking during critical growth periods. This technology offers a viable pathway for widespread solar implementation throughout the contiguous United States.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Han Shao, Rui Henriques, Hugo Morais, Elisabetta Tedeschi
Summary: The integration of offshore wind energy into the electric grid provides opportunities in terms of environmental sustainability and cost efficiency, but poses challenges to power quality. This survey offers a deeper understanding of disturbance detection and classification tools, exploring root causes, disturbance locations, and algorithmic solutions. It highlights synchronized waveform measurement and discusses evaluation metrics for detection and classification algorithms. Additionally, a novel system-wide monitoring framework is proposed.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Eleni Davidson, Yair Schwartz, Joe Williams, Dejan Mumovic
Summary: A continued upward trend in global greenhouse gas emissions poses risks to global infrastructure and built assets. Maintaining high indoor environmental quality standards is a challenge for higher education institutions under future climates. Passive cooling mechanisms may be insufficient to tolerate predicted temperature increases. Different building typologies have varying energy demand projections.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Kexin Pang, Jian Zhou, Stamatis Tsianikas, David W. Coit, Yizhong Ma
Summary: This study proposes a new framework for long-term microgrid expansion planning, using deep reinforcement learning method to consider various uncertainties and constraints. The framework aims to enhance the effectiveness of microgrid expansion planning from the perspectives of economy, resilience, and greenhouse gas emission reduction.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Jun Zhao, Kangyin Dong, Xiucheng Dong
Summary: The continuous growth of global electricity penetration has provided modern energy for alleviating energy poverty, but its impact on carbon neutrality has been overlooked. The research reveals that clean electricity from traditional fossil energy and renewable energy has a positive influence on the greenhouse effect. Eradicating energy poverty can effectively alleviate the greenhouse effect, especially in non-Belt and Road Initiative (B&RI) nations.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Hossein Shahbeik, Hamed Kazemi Shariat Panahi, Mona Dehhaghi, Gilles J. Guillemin, Alireza Fallahi, Homa Hosseinzadeh-Bandbafha, Hamid Amiri, Mohammad Rehan, Deepak Raikwar, Hannes Latine, Bruno Pandalone, Benyamin Khoshnevisan, Christian Sonne, Luigi Vaccaro, Abdul-Sattar Nizami, Vijai Kumar Gupta, Su Shiung Lam, Junting Pan, Rafael Luque, Bert Sels, Wanxi Peng, Meisam Tabatabaei, Mortaza Aghbashlo
Summary: This review explores the production of biocrude oil from biomass feedstocks through the process of hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL). It discusses the impact of process parameters on the quality, quantity, cost, and environmental impacts of biofuels. The review also highlights the challenges and prospects for the future development of biocrude oil.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Meysam Majidi Nezhad, Mehdi Neshat, Georgios Sylaios, Davide Astiaso Garcia
Summary: Digital twins promise innovation for the marine renewable energy sector by using modern technological advances and the existing maritime knowledge frameworks. This research presents critical aspects of digital twin implementation challenges in marine energy digitalization approaches that use and combine data systems.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Yeganeh Sharifian, Hamdi Abdi
Summary: This paper discusses the background and objectives of the multi-area economic dispatch problem, as well as various techniques and methods applied in this field. It also covers comprehensive formulations of the problem and important issues in the field of probabilistic MAED, along with some related concepts and suggestions.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
J. G. B. Churchill, V. B. Borugadda, A. K. Dalai
Summary: The increasing global energy demand and the need to reduce fossil fuel reliance have created a demand for renewable and sustainable fuel sources. This review explores the potential of tall oil, a by-product of the pulping industry, as a feedstock for biofuels. The review provides an overview of tall oil production, purification, and treatment, and investigates recent trends and barriers towards tall oil-derived biofuels.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
David C. Broadstock, Xiangnan Wang
Summary: This study provides a general review of research on district cooling, identifying key topics and themes and highlighting potential research priorities for future studies.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
L. Scharnhorst, D. Sloot, N. Lehmann, A. Ardone, W. Fichtner
Summary: This study investigates and analyzes the barriers to demand response in industrial and commercial sectors, highlighting their significance. Concerns about diminished product quality, disruptions to production processes, human resource management, and revenue uncertainty are identified as the most frequently cited barriers. Overcoming these barriers requires bridging knowledge gaps, allocating sufficient resources, and adapting external incentives and policies.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Tong Feng, Yuechi Sun, Yating Shi, Jie Ma, Chunmei Feng, Zhenni Chen
Summary: Air pollution is a significant global challenge, and policymakers have implemented policies to reduce it. Evaluating the effectiveness of these policies is critical, and our study reveals trends and gaps in air pollution policy research. We found that research has shifted from focusing solely on air pollutants to including methodologies, policies, and health implications. China has emerged as a major contributor in this field of research.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
