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INTEGRATION OF A SEASONAL STORAGE

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Central solar heating plant is one of the most profitable, the most efficient and the most easily installable solar technology. However, there is significant limitations for its installation on all the northern roof. There is a gap between the summer heat ...

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Switchable Selective Absorber Coatings for Overheating Protection of Solar Thermal Collectors

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Overheating is a common problem both with the use of active and passive solar energy in solar thermal energy systems and in highly glazed buildings. In solar thermal collectors, the elevated temperatures occurring during stagnation result in reduced lifeti ...

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Optimal Design of Solar Assisted Hydrothermal Gasification for Microalgae to Synthetic Natural Gas Conversion

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Catalytic hydrothermal gasification is a promising technology which allows the conversion of wet biomass into methane rich syngas. It consists of three major steps, in which thermal energy has to be supplied at different temperature levels, leading to mult ...

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Effect of groundwater flow on the THM behavior of an energy pile

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Bridges are one of the road structures that are most exposed to icing, a problem that is widely dealt with through salting, a technique that reduce the lifespan of the bridge. Seasonal storage of solar heat energy captured directly through the asphalt laye ...

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Energy-Efficient Sol-Gel Process for Production of Nanocomposite Absorber Coatings for Tubular Solar Thermal Collectors

Andreas Schueler, Martin Python, Martin Joly, Yannik Antonetti, Thomas Gascou, Marina Garcia Gonzalez

The energy efficiency of production processes for components of solar energy systems is an important issue. Other factors which are important for the production of products such as black selective solar coatings include production speed, cycle time and hom ...

EPFL Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory (LESO-PB)2013

Optical and morphological characterisation of low refractive index materials for coatings on solar collector glazing

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Andreas Schueler, Marie Schaer, Martin Joly, Stefan Mertin, Estelle De Chambrier, Virginie Hody-Le Caër

Nanostructured coatings based on the elements Si, O, Mg, and F have been deposited as thin films by solegel dip-coating in a particle-free atmosphere. The refractive index of the prepared SiO2 and quaternary MgeFeSieO thin films has been determined from sp ...

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The Application of Electrospun Titania Nanofibers in Dye-sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Ladislav Kavan, Aravind Kumar Chandiran

Titania nanofibers were fabricated using the industrial Nanospider (TM) technology. The preparative protocol was optimized by screening various precursor materials to get pure anatase nanofibers. Composite films were prepared by mixing a commercial paste o ...

Schweizerische Chemische Gesellschaft2013

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