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Optical and structural analysis of sol-gel derived Cu-Co-Mn-Si oxides for black selective solar nanocomposite multilayered coatings

Andreas Schueler, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Marina Aymara González Lazo, Olivia Valérie Charlotte Bouvard, Pierre Loesch, Martin Joly, Martin Python, Thomas Gascou, Yannik Antonetti

In this paper, we report the preparation of the precursor solutions for the deposition of Cu-Co-Mn-Si oxides by a sot-gel method in order to produce black selective coatings for CSP receiver tubes. Their optical properties were investigated by means of spe ...

Elsevier2015

Thermo-economic optimisation of large solar tower power plants

Germain Augsburger

Given the growing number of solar tower power plants in operation, under construction and under planning, the assessment and the optimisation of their performance are required both at the energy level and the economic level. In other words, the same way as ...

EPFL2013

Multi-Scale Modelling of a Solar Reactor for the High-Temperature Step of a Sulphur-Iodine-Based Water Splitting Cycle

Sophia Haussener, Aldo Steinfeld

The 3-step sulphur-iodine-based thermochemical cycle for splitting water is considered. The high-temperature step consists of the evaporation, decomposition, and reduction of H2SO4 to SO2 using concentrated solar process heat. This step is followed by the ...

ASME2012

Thermoeconomic optimization of a combined-cycle solar tower power plant

Daniel Favrat, Germain Augsburger, James Spelling

A dynamic model of a pure-solar combined-cycle power plant has been developed in order to allow determination of the thermodynamic and economic performance of the plant for a variety of operating conditions and superstructure layouts. The model was then us ...

2012