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Solar energy materials

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt

A review on some of the key aspects of photovoltaic (PV) technol. and the ongoing effort to exploit the planet's largest energy source. It focuses on the inorg. materials: the core of current and developing PV technol. and a research area crucial to the fu ...

John Wiley & Sons Ltd.2011

Life Cycle Analysis and Thermo-Environomic Optimization of Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Plants

Aurélie Kuenlin

Confronted to resources depletion and the global warming, the humanity has to reduce its fossil fuels dependence. The renewable energy is an interesting option to reach this aim. The most powerful one is the solar energy since in few hours, the Earth recei ...

2011

Artificial photosynthesis: biomimetic approaches to solar energy conversion and storage

Michael Graetzel, Kuppuswamy Kalyanasundaram

Using sun as the energy source, natural photosynthesis carries out a number of useful reactions such as oxidation of water to molecular oxygen and fixation of CO2 in the form of sugars. These are achieved through a series of light-induced multielectron-tra ...

Elsevier2010

Editorial Solar Energy Journal - CISBAT 2007 Special Issue

Jean-Louis Scartezzini

Centred on research and development in Solar Energy Applications to the Built Environment, the International Conference CISBAT 2007, organised every other year on the campus of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne/Switzerland, once ...

2010

Preliminary Study of a Solar Trough/Tower Power Plant

Jorge López Moreno

The possibility of combining both the advantages of a solar tower thermal power plant and of a solar parabolic trough power plant could be interesting from an energetic point of view as well from an economic point of view. The preliminary study of this com ...

2010

Life Cycle Analysis of a Solar Tower Thermal Power Plant

Aurélie Kuenlin

In this present work, a life cycle assessment is realized on Solar Two, a test project of a solar tower thermal power plant. The aim of this study is to quantify the impacts on the environment associated with all the stages from cradle-to-grave (production ...

2010

Étude et optimisation d'un convertisseur DC/DC à canaux multiples entrelacés

Yannick Louvrier

In a context in which economy and ecology follow historically opposed trajectories, renewable energies appear as an interesting compromise. However, the energy production from these emerging technologies is well below that of their ancestors, and their cos ...

EPFL2010

Thermo-Economic Optimisation of Solar Tower Thermal Power Plants

James Spelling

Amidst a backdrop of rapidly increasing world-wide electricity demand, solar thermal power generation shows great potential for supplying the electricity needs of numerous countries in the Sun-belt regions of the world. In these regions, the absence of sig ...

2009

Cloud formation in the plumes of solar chimney power generation facilities: A modeling study

Athanasios Nenes

The solar chimney power facility has the potential to become a valuable technology for renewable energy production. Its financial viability depends on a thorough understanding of the processes affecting its performance, particularly because of the large st ...

2009

Assessment of Solar Thermal Power Technologies

James Spelling

In the present climate of growing awareness about the dangers of global climate change, the development of new renewable energy technologies is primordial in the efforts to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Rapid increases in t ...

2008