Concentrating Solar Power
Solar energy is a bountiful renewable energy resource: the energy in the sunlight that reaches Earth in an hour exceeds the energy consumed by all of humanity in a year. While the phrase “solar energy conversion” probably brings photovoltaic (PV) cells to mind first, PV is not the only option for ge...
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| author | Loomis, James Weinstein, Lee Adragon Bhatia, Bikramjit S Bierman, David Matthew Wang, Evelyn Chen, Gang |
| author2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering |
| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering Loomis, James Weinstein, Lee Adragon Bhatia, Bikramjit S Bierman, David Matthew Wang, Evelyn Chen, Gang |
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| description | Solar energy is a bountiful renewable energy resource: the energy in the sunlight that reaches Earth in an hour exceeds the energy consumed by all of humanity in a year. While the phrase “solar energy conversion” probably brings photovoltaic (PV) cells to mind first, PV is not the only option for generating electricity from sunlight. Another promising technology for solar energy conversion is solar–thermal conversion, commonly referred to as concentrating solar power (CSP). The first utility-scale CSP plants were constructed in the 1980s, but in the two decades that followed, CSP saw little expansion. More recent years, however, have seen a CSP renaissance due to unprecedented growth in the adoption of CSP. Photographs of two operating CSP plants, a parabolic trough collector plant and a central receiver (or “power tower”), are shown in Figure 1. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1065132022-10-01T17:49:43Z Concentrating Solar Power Loomis, James Weinstein, Lee Adragon Bhatia, Bikramjit S Bierman, David Matthew Wang, Evelyn Chen, Gang Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering Chen, Gang Weinstein, Lee Adragon Bhatia, Bikramjit S Bierman, David Matthew Wang, Evelyn Chen, Gang Solar energy is a bountiful renewable energy resource: the energy in the sunlight that reaches Earth in an hour exceeds the energy consumed by all of humanity in a year. While the phrase “solar energy conversion” probably brings photovoltaic (PV) cells to mind first, PV is not the only option for generating electricity from sunlight. Another promising technology for solar energy conversion is solar–thermal conversion, commonly referred to as concentrating solar power (CSP). The first utility-scale CSP plants were constructed in the 1980s, but in the two decades that followed, CSP saw little expansion. More recent years, however, have seen a CSP renaissance due to unprecedented growth in the adoption of CSP. Photographs of two operating CSP plants, a parabolic trough collector plant and a central receiver (or “power tower”), are shown in Figure 1. United States. Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (Awards DE-AR0000471 and DE-AR0000181) United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Science (Solid-State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center. Award DE-SC0001299/DE-FG02-09ER46577) United States. Department of Energy. Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (Award DE-EE0005806) MIT & Masdar Institute Cooperative Program 2017-01-17T20:42:59Z 2017-01-17T20:42:59Z 2015-10 2015-07 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0009-2665 1520-6890 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106513 Weinstein, Lee A. et al. “Concentrating Solar Power.” Chemical Reviews 115.23 (2015): 12797–12838. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8917-7547 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1537-3080 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9897-2670 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7045-1200 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3968-8530 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.5b00397 Chemical Reviews Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf American Chemical Society (ACS) Prof. Gang Chen |
| spellingShingle | Loomis, James Weinstein, Lee Adragon Bhatia, Bikramjit S Bierman, David Matthew Wang, Evelyn Chen, Gang Concentrating Solar Power |
| title | Concentrating Solar Power |
| title_full | Concentrating Solar Power |
| title_fullStr | Concentrating Solar Power |
| title_full_unstemmed | Concentrating Solar Power |
| title_short | Concentrating Solar Power |
| title_sort | concentrating solar power |
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