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Multi Solar (PVT) Air Conditioning System

Elazari A., Millennium Electric Ltd., IL

A new innovation technology includes Multi Solar Air Conditioning system using the Multi Solar (PV/T) Collectors System and an Air conditioning unit that using the excessive solar thermal energy produced by the Multi Solar System [...]

Organic PV Cells, Electricity Collected from Plant Photosynthesis – Feasibility and Demonstration

Elazari A., Millennium Electric Ltd., IL

The main objective of this project is to demonstrate and develop new potential source of natural energy (electricity) by photosynthesis, and directly from living (inedible) plant. The electricity capacity will be evaluated based on various [...]

Simple Low-CosSimple Low-Cost Technology of Silicon Solar Cells and PV Modules Fabrication

Bruk L., Simashkevich A., Sherban D., Usatii Yu., Morvillo P., Bobeico E., Fedorov V., Institute of Applied Physics, MD

The main purpose of this work is to demonstrate the possibility of fabrication of SC and solar modules based on SIS structures using spray pyrolisis technique. Thin films, deposited at 450oC on the nSi crystals [...]

DFT calculations of IR and Raman spectra of Ru(bpy)2(CN)2 complex

Minaev B.F., Minaeva V.A., Minaeva V.A., Agren H., Girtu M., Bogdan Khmelnitskij national University, UA

In order to understand mechanism of electron transfer in dye-sensitized solar cell based on organic-inorganic junction we have studied the role of vibronic perturbations in metal-to-ligand and ligand-to-ligand charge transfer states excitations and in electron [...]

Multi Solar (PVT) Co-Generation Power Station

Elazari A., Millennium Electric Ltd., IL

The plant is designed to combine photovoltaic (PV) and thermo-solar (TS) electric generation. In particular, the starting point is the use of cooled photovoltaic modules. Cooling enhances the photovoltaic module efficiency, and the cooling fluid [...]

A Solar-Driven System for Industrial Dehumidification and Steam Generation

Maxwell J., D’Antonio M., Henkel E.T., Rigos V., May K., Creamer K., ERS, US

This paper introduces a solar thermal system that can be used for industrial applications to generate low pressure steam, to drive an absorption chiller, or both. Steinway & Sons is installing thirty-eight tracking parabolic trough [...]

Enriched methane production by solar steam reformer: process evaluation

De Falco M., Marrelli L., Giaconia A., Tarquini P., University of Rome “La Sapienza”, IT

The aim of this work is to present a novel hybrid plant for the production of a mixture of methane and hydrogen from a steam reforming reactor whose heat duty is supplied by a molten [...]

Johnson Space Center’s Solar and Wind-based Renewable Energy System

Vasquez A., Ewert M., Rowlands J., Post K., NASA Johnson Space Center, US

This paper will present performance data and comparisons from a 32 kW solar and wind based renewable enery system installed at the NASA Johnson Space Center. The system provides a web-based performance and weather data [...]

Thin film solar cell based on microcrystalline nanostructure silicon grown in low temperature condition

Chung Y.B., Lim J.S., Kim H., Kim J.K., Hwang N.M., Kim H., Kim J.K., Park Y.J., Seoul National University, KR

High quality microcrystalline silicon thin film grown by Hot-Wire Chemical Vapor Deposition(HWCVD) and subsequently manufactured solar cells are presented. Intrinsic layer photoconductivity data is provided for one of the film quality measures, and the result [...]

Parallel Integrated Solar Cell Circuits for Split Solar Spectrum Light Source

Li Y., Shi F., Texas A&M University, US

Among the various solar energy application technologies, the photovoltaic technology is, in particular, the most desirable technology for large-scale applications due to the fact that the solar energy in optical form is directly transformed into [...]