Abstract
The effects of climate change due to fossil fuel usage and primary drivers behind fossil fuel-based technologies have promoted the global campaign of clean and economical fuels with increasing energy demand. With this motivation, researchers have made a remarkable development in solar energy-based technologies, making it possible to use them as an economical fuel for the coming era. The use of solar power is significant in adopting it as a renewable fuel as it will replace the conventional fossil fuel-based power plants with serious environmental and economic issues. Solar energy is expected to generate more than 10% of the global power supply by 2040 due to its continuous decline in levelized cost of electricity (LCOE). Therefore their modeling and design should be accurate enough to prove their economic viability and performance. The fundamental ideas are covered in this chapter, mathematical modeling and thermal analysis of solar energy systems such as concentrated solar power (CSP) and solar photovoltaics (PV). Different configurations of the solar energy systems and their mathematical modeling will be discussed, and critical performance enhancing parameters will be analyzed. In addition, the economics of the solar PV and CSP systems will also be discussed.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Solar Energy Harvesting, Conversion, and Storage |
| Subtitle of host publication | Materials, Technologies, and Applications |
| Editors | Mohammad Khalid, Rashmi Walvekar, Hitesh Panchal, Mahesh Vaka |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Pages | 251-291 |
| Number of pages | 41 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780323906012 |
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| Publication status | Published - 5 Jun 2023 |
Keywords
- Solar energy systems
- modeling
- thermal analysis
- nanofluids
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Engineering
- General Materials Science
