The efficiency of coal-fired power plant depends on various operating parameters such as main steam/reheat steam pressures and temperatures, turbine extraction pressures, and excess air ratio for a given fuel. However, simultaneous optimization of all these operating parameters to achieve the...

The solar parabolic dish collector is one of the most efficient energy conversion technologies among the concentrating solar power (CSP) systems. The design and implementation of solar parabolic dish power plants will result in sustainable energy generation. In this article, techno-economic...

In this paper, a numerical study of combined natural convection and surface radiation heat transfer in a solar trapezoidal cavity absorber for Compact Linear Fresnel Reflector (CLFR) is presented. The CFD package, FLUENT 6.3 is used to develop the 2-D, non-Boussinesq, steady state, laminar,...

In this paper, 3-D numerical analysis of the porous disc line receiver for solar parabolic trough collector is presented. The influence of thermic fluid properties, receiver design and solar radiation concentration on overall heat collection is investigated. The analysis is carried out based on...