The impact of concrete structure on the thermal performance of the dual-media thermocline thermal energy storage (TES) tank which is very promising to be applied in concentrating solar power (CSP) systems is investigated. The lumped capacitance method is used since the introduction of corrected...

A mathematical model for the overall exergetic efficiency of two phase change materials named PCM1 and PCM2 storage system with a concentrating collector for solar thermal power based on finite-time thermodynamics is developed. The model takes into consideration the effects of melting...

By using exergy efficiency as an objective function, the performances of three different organic Rankine cycles (ORCs) systems including the basic ORC (BORC) system, the single-stage regenerative ORC (SRORC) system and the double-stage regenerative ORC (DRORC) system using six different working...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to mine information on the construction process of previous projects to develop a construction plan that meets both quality requirements and schedule constraints. Design/methodology/approach: This paper uses a failure mode and effect analysis to evaluate...

A modification of ranked set sampling (RSS) called moving extremes ranked set sampling (MERSS) is considered for the estimation of the scale parameter of scale distributions. A maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) is studied and its properties are obtained. We prove the MLE is an equivariant...