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12 May 2022
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PRELIMINARY
Preface: SolarPACES 2020 – 26th International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 010001 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/12.0009334
ADVANCED MATERIALS, MANUFACTURING, AND COMPONENTS
Vapor transport analysis of a chloride molten salt flow control valve
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 020001 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085644
Spectrally selective solar coating based on W-AlN cermet fabricated by reactive sputtering processes at high deposition rate
Antonio D'Angelo; Claudia Diletto; Salvatore Esposito; Giorgio Graditi; Antonio Guglielmo; Michela Lanchi; Gabriella Rossi
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 020002 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0086711
Preliminary exploration of simulation and control of supercritical CO2 solar thermal power generation system
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 020005 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0086637
Manufacturing cost analysis of advanced parabolic trough collector
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 020006 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085663
Particle-to-sCO2 heat exchanger experimental test station design and construction
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 020007 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085954
Towards a design framework for non-metallic concentrating solar power components
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 020009 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085670
Innovative 1000K sodium loop for qualification of new materials for applications in CSP field
Alexandru Onea; Wolfgang Hering; Sven Ulrich; Michael Rieth; Alfons Weisenburger; Jens Reiser; Stephan Lenk; Thomas Röbert; Steffen Vielhaber; Siegfried Baumgärtner; Rainer Ziegler; Robert Stieglitz
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 020010 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0087110
Performance of alloy 600 in flowing commercial Cl salt at 600°-750°C
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 020011 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085929
Effect of the cyclic heating (aging) on the solar absorptance and specific heat of particulate materials
Rageh S. Saeed; Abdulelah Alswaiyd; Hany Al-Ansary; Abdelrahman El-Leathy; Sheldon Jeter; Shaker Alaqel; Nader S. Saleh; Eldwin Djajadiwinata; Zeyad Al-Suhaibani; Syed Danish; Zeyad Almutairi
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 020012 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085828
RAISELIFE project extends the lifetime of functional CSP materials
Florian Sutter; Yaniv Binyamin; Theda Zoschke; Aránzazu Fernández-García; Sanae Naamane; Mathias Galetz; Reine Reoyo-Prats; Francisco Javier Pérez-Trujillo; Alina Aglüro; Francesco Orioli; Javier Piron; Daniel Mandler; Anne Attout; Simon Caron; Johannes Wette; Ricardo Sánchez; Angel Morales; Christina Hildebrant
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 020013 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085763
ANALYSIS AND SIMULATION OF CSP AND HYBRIDIZED SYSTEMS
Technoeconomic cost analysis of NREL concentrating solar power Gen3 liquid pathway
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 030001 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085836
Assessment of Ti3SiC2 MAX phase as a structural material for high temperature receivers
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 030002 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085952
Analysis of a chloride molten salt pump and tank interface for high-temperature operation
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 030003 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085642
Thermomechanical modeling of counter-flow packed-bed particle-to-sCO2 heat exchangers
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 030004 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0089334
Selecting a self-sufficient solar system configuration for 24/7, year-round, per-demand power supply
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 030005 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085719
System-level comparison of sodium and salt systems in support of the Gen3 liquids pathway
Armando Fontalvo; Salvatore Guccione; Ye Wang; Shuang Wang; Zebedee Kee; Charles-Alexis Asselineau; Daniel Potter; Felix Venn; Janna Martinek; Craig Turchi; Joe Coventry; John Pye
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 030007 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0087911
Ray tracing method for mirror’s geometry evaluation of a central tower concentration solar power system
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 030008 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085636
Improvements in the techno-economic analysis of particle CSP systems
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 030010 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085873
Simulation, control, and verification of novel closed-chain kinematics
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 030011 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0087180
Particle CSP plant: Quantifying system benefits through production cost modeling
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 030012 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0087099
Modeling the thermal behavior of solar salt in electrical resistance heaters for the application in PV-CSP hybrid power plants
Zahra Mahdi; Phani Srujan Merige; Ricardo Alexander Chico Caminos; Pascal Schmitz; Ulf Herrmann; Cristiano Teixeira Boura; Mark Schmitz; Hans Gielen; Yibekal Gedle; Jürgen Dersch
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 030013 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0086268
Technical assessment of Brayton cycle heat pumps for the integration in hybrid PV-CSP power plants
Zahra Mahdi; Jürgen Dersch; Pascal Schmitz; Simon Dieckmann; Ricardo Alexander Chico Caminos; Cristiano Teixeira Boura; Ulf Herrmann; Christian Schwager; Mark Schmitz; Hans Gielen; Yibekal Gedle; Rauno Büscher
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 030014 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0086269
Lessons learned designing a 50MW baseload CSP, PV, BESS, and gas hybrid
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 030015 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0089017
Accelerated aiming strategy in central receiver systems using integer linear programming
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 030018 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085711
Computationally fast analytical ray-tracer for central receiver systems
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 030019 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085714
Techno-economic analysis of hybrid supercritical CO2 based molten salt tower CSP-PV
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 030022 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0086002
Aerodynamic analysis of wind loading on parabolic trough collectors using high-fidelity CFD modeling
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 030023 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0087124
COMMERCIAL PROJECTS
Solar field experiences from Hami solar tower project
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 040001 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0086590
CSP INTEGRATION, MARKETS, AND POLICY
Economic assessment of installed CSP plants as Carnot Batteries: Spanish grid market case study
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 050002 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085717
CSP-reference power plant “Made in Germany”
Jürgen Dersch; Matthias Binder; Cathy Frantz; Stefano Giuliano; Fabian Gross; Holger Hasselbach; Nadine Kaczmarkiewicz; Freerk Klasing; Jaime Paucar; Thomas Polklas; Christian Schuhbauer; Axel Schweitzer; Alexander Stryk; Dennis Többen
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 050003 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085877
Next-generation concentrating solar power plants: Perspectives on international markets
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 050004 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0087100
Exergy analysis of the impact of a heat exchanger on performance of an integrated sodium-salt CSP plant
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 050008 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0087912
EMERGING AND DISRUPTIVE CONCEPTS
On-sun experiments on the world’s first deployed gas-turbine particle-based power tower facility at King Saud University
Shaker Alaqel; Eldwin Djajadiwinata; Nader S. Saleh; Rageh S. Saeed; Abdulelah Alswaiyd; Hany Al-Ansary; Abdelrahman El-Leathy; Sheldon Jeter; Syed Danish; Zeyad Al-Suhaibani; Said Abdel-Khalik
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 060001 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085831
Interpolation vector formulas for reflection and refraction of metasurface
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 060002 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085702
Matrix and control design of fixed-bed regenerators for a multi-tower decoupled advanced solar combined cycle
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 060003 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0086373
Novel design of the solar disinfectant closet (device) for inactivation of COVID-19 virus
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 060005 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085676
Next-CSP concept with particle receiver applied to a 150 MWe solar tower
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 060006 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0086301
MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND PROCEDURES
Design of a novel compact single-source high-flux solar simulator
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 070002 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085840
A two-stage method for measuring the heliostat offset
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 070005 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0087036
Initial validation of an advanced heliostat characterization system based on cameras and light detectors
Adrián Peña-Lapuente; Íñigo Les; Amaia Mutuberria; Marcelino Sánchez; Carlos Heras; Íñigo Salinas; Marina Sevilla; David Izquierdo
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 070009 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085728
Status update of the SolarPACES heliostat testing activities
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 070010 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0087037
Estimating orientations of tracking heliostats using circumsolar radiance
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 070013 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0087117
OPERATIONS, MAINTENANCE, AND COMPONENT RELIABILITY
Influence of soiling on CSP mirrors in a mountain climate in Morroco
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 080002 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085640
Modeling thermal transients of bulk particle lifting systems with CFD simulations
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 080003 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0086070
Studies of specular reflectance distribution for aged or degraded solar mirrors
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 080004 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0086603
Using DNI forecasts provided by all sky imager to improve control of parabolic trough solar fields
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 080005 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0086235
Permitting for a Gen 3 pilot-scale sodium and molten salt system
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 080006 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085662
Effect of solar field aiming strategies on the fatigue life in molten salt external central receivers
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 080008 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085673
Wash vehicle fleet sizing for contingency planning against dust storms
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 080012 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085675
POWER CYCLES
Techno-economic analysis of CSP incorporating sCO2 brayton power cycles: Trade-off between cost and performance
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 090001 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0086353
200 MWth and 1 MWth chloride salt to supercritical carbon dioxide heat exchanger and test integration designs
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 090002 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0089316
Supercritical CO2 heat pumps and power cycles for concentrating solar power
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 090006 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0090002
Performance analysis of variable speed solar gas turbine configurations
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 090007 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0086271
Biomass–solar thermal hybridization using Carnot batteries for s-CO2 Brayton cycles
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 090008 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0086031
Supercritical CO2 mixtures for Brayton power cycles complex configurations with concentrating solar power
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 090009 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0086032
Dynamic simulation of a 50MW solar power tower system for peak load regulation
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 090010 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085853
RECEIVERS AND HEAT TRANSFER MEDIA AND TRANSPORT: LINEAR SYSTEMS
Development and testing of a solar flux heating freeze recovery system for molten salt parabolic troughs
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 100002 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0087108
Hydrogen monitoring and control in the heat transfer fluid of parabolic trough plants
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 100003 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085825
Oil testing for intense use in CSP applications
Emiliana Mansi; Salvatore Sau; Irena Balog; Alessia Cemmi; Marco Ciotti; Natale Corsaro; Giampaolo Caputo; Francesco Filippi; Fabio Panza; Nicolò Ratto; Andrea Simonetti; Annarita Spadoni; Giuliano Tiranti; Anna Chiara Tizzoni; Maria Cristina Annesini
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 100004 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0086253
Steady state criteria for parabolic trough receiver heat loss measurements
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 100005 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085918
Designing a lab-scale vibrating solar receiver for a linear beam-down solar field
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 100006 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085755
RECEIVERS AND HEAT TRANSFER MEDIA AND TRANSPORT: POINT FOCUS SYSTEMS
Design of a heliostat field and liquid sodium cylindrical receiver for the Gen3 liquids pathway
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 110001 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085740
Basic engineering of a high performance molten salt tower receiver system
Cathy Frantz; Matthias Binder; Konrad Busch; Miriam Ebert; Andreas Heinrich; Nadine Kaczmarkiewicz; Bärbel Schlögl-Knothe; Tobias Kunze; Christian Schuhbauer; Markus Stetka; Christian Schwager; Michael Spiegel; Cristiano Teixeira Boura; Thomas Bauer; Alexander Bonk; Stefan Eisen; Bernhard Funck
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 110002 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085895
Development progress of the CentRec® particle receiver technology
Matti Lubkoll; Miriam Ebert; Lars Amsbeck; Alexander Hirt; Cathy Frantz; Jens Rheinländer; Reiner Buck
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 110005 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0086510
Proposal and sizing of a molten Salt-to-sCO2 heat exchanger in supercritical solar thermal power plants
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 110006 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085730
Introduction to a direct irradiated transparent tube particle receiver
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 110007 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0086735
Particle curtain temperature estimation through imaging techniques
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 110008 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0086080
Start-up time and thermal losses of a particle solar receiver under transient operating conditions
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 110009 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0086798
Techno-economic evaluation of the performance of an innovative rotary disk receiver concept in a CSP power plant
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 110010 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085715
Ceramic proppant dust generation in falling particle receiver applications
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 110015 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085639
Molten salt vs. liquid sodium receiver selection using the analytic hierarchy process
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 110016 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0087043
Numerical performance evaluation of the Synhelion absorbing gas solar receiver under different operating conditions
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 110017 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085733
SOLAR COLLECTOR SYSTEMS
The influence of optical characterization at different angles of incidence on optical efficiency calculation of a novel small-size parabolic trough collector for process heat applications
Leticia Aldaz; Xabier Randez; Amaia Mutuberria; Fabienne Sallaberry; Estelle Le Baron; Angela Disdier
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 120001 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085907
Shadowing and blocking factors in heliostats: Comparison between parallel and oblique projections
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 120004 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085716
Etendue-matched solar tower beam-down system for high-temperature industrial processes
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 120005 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085900
Ray tracing approach for the performance evaluation of bladed and flat-plate receiver in central tower systems
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 120006 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0086896
A thermal model for a CPC-Type double-pass solar air heater
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 120007 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0086083
Development of a micro heliostat and optical qualification assessment with a 3D laser scanning method
Ricardo Alexander Chico Caminos; Pascal Schmitz; Vikrama Atti; Zahra Mahdi; Cristiano Teixeira Boura; Johannes Christoph Sattler; Ulf Herrmann; Patrick Hilger; Simon Dieckmann
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 120008 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0086262
Performance of a CPC inserted in a high vacuum envelope
Carmine D’ Alessandro; Davide De Maio; Daniela De Luca; Marilena Musto; Emiliano Di Gennaro; Roberto Russo
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 120009 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0086369
Optimized solar absorber coating for a new concentrating solar collector under high vacuum
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 120010 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0086368
Blossaim, a deterministic aiming strategy for circular aperture receivers
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 120012 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085654
Development of a modular concrete heliostat prototype
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 120013 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0086016
High-performance stellio heliostat for high temperature application
Thomas Keck; Vanessa Schönfelder; Bernd Zwingmann; Fabian Gross; Markus Balz; Frederic Siros; Gilles Flamant
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 120014 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0086592
Holistic optimisation of modular field design including heliostats, receivers, towers, HTF piping and operations
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 120016 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0089018
FluxSPT: Tool for heliostat field aiming and flux mapping in solar power tower plants
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 120020 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085656
Photogrammetry analysis of a vacuum-membrane solar dish using elliptical television antennas
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 120021 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0087025
Design and modeling of a three-dimensional compound parabolic concentrator(3D-CPC) of a 10 kWe solar tower plant
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 120022 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0086127
An efficient method for aiming heliostats using ray-tracing
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 120023 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085672
Development of an aerial imaging system for heliostat canting assessments
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 120024 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0087057
SOLAR FUELS AND CHEMICAL COMMODITIES
Using concentrated solar energy in a biomass gasification to produce hydrogen
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 130001 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085710
Techno-economic analysis of solar thermochemical fuel production: Sensitivity and uncertainty
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 130003 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085637
Operation optimization of an array of receiver-reactors for solar fuel production
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 130004 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085738
Solar-aided calcination of limestone: First modeling of the SOLCEMENT process
Athanassios Nikolakopoulos; Theodore Steriotis; Georgia Charalambopoulou; George Karagiannakis; Dimitrios Dimitrakis; Athanasios G. Konstandopoulos; Vasileios Michalis; Marios Katsiotis
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 130007 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085791
Solar thermochemical energy storage in elemental sulphur: Design, development and construction of a lab-scale sulphuric acid splitting reactor powered by hot ceramic particles
Vamshi Krishna Thanda; Dennis Thomey; Lutz Mevißen; Hiroki Noguchi; Christos Agrafiotis; Martin Roeb; Christian Sattler
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 130008 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085888
SOLAR INDUSTRIAL PROCESS HEAT AND THERMAL DESALINATION
Renewable thermal hybridization framework for industrial process heat applications
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 140002 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085805
Modeling of a loop thermosyphon supplying solar energy to a desalination boiler
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 140003 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0086288
Developments in solar heat from concentrating solar systems
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 140006 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085794
Can concentrated solar-driven supercritical CO2 power cycles help address the energy-water nexus?
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 140010 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085634
SOLAR RESOURCE ASSESSMENT
First measurements from Mexican solarimetric network and its comparison with the NSRDB
Adriana E. González-Cabrera; David Riveros-Rosas; Teresa Martinez-Gonzalez; Mauro G. Valdés-Barrón; Héctor R. Estévez-Pérez; Roberto Bonifaz-Alfonzo
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 150001 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085645
Comparison of the representativeness of solar radiation type of days from the viewpoint of the production of parabolic trough and central receiver plants
Sara Moreno-Tejera; Paola Jiménez-Valero; Elena Pérez-Aparicio; Isidoro Lillo-Bravo; Manuel A. Silva-Pérez
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 150003 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085768
Irradiance maps from a shadow camera on a mountain range
Stefan Wilbert; Bijan Nouri; Norbert Kötter-Orthaus; Natalie Hanrieder; Christoph Prahl; Pascal Kuhn; Luis Zarzalejo; Roberto Lázaro
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 150006 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085723
DNI day-ahead forecasting with confidence factor
AIP Conf. Proc. 2445, 150007 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0086345