The combination of renewable energy sources into the power system network has been growing rapidly in recent decades. Solar energy is the most abundant renewable energy source available on the earth. Though technologies for converting sunlight energy to power have made a lot of progress, high capital price and low conversion proficiency are the main obstacles to the common use of these technologies. Solar energy is a crucial energy source that requires solar capture, conversion, and storage. Solar energy Conversions are categorized into three major categories conferring to their primary energy product: solar fuels, solar electricity, and solar thermal systems. Individually, all three standard methods of exploiting solar resources have untapped competency well beyond their existing practice.
This Research Topic aims to present new research findings as well as reviews of significant work in the field of solar thermal energy systems, electrical energy storage, thermal energy storage, solar photovoltaic thermal systems (PVT), and hybrid solar systems. We invite you to submit your original experimental, theoretical, and review work to this Research Topic .
Topics of interest for this Research Topic include but are not limited to:
1. Thermal energy grid storage for further applications via the CSP/multi-junction photovoltaics system, solar fuels through thermochemical redox cycles, photochemical and high-temperature electrolysis systems with better economic performance due to the dramatic drop in the cost of solar energy.
2. Thermal energy storage materials and techniques (phase change material, thermochemical materials, metal hydrates thermal energy storage materials, sensible heat storage, latent heat storage, thermochemical heat storage, or a combination of these), thermal energy storage materials development and characterization.
3. Solar thermal systems with thermal energy storage (concentrating solar thermal system, solar water heating systems, solar cookers, solar desalination, solar dryer, solar greenhouse, thermal processing of food in agriculture, photovoltaic thermal system, hybrid solar thermal system, thermal energy storage in the building).
The combination of renewable energy sources into the power system network has been growing rapidly in recent decades. Solar energy is the most abundant renewable energy source available on the earth. Though technologies for converting sunlight energy to power have made a lot of progress, high capital price and low conversion proficiency are the main obstacles to the common use of these technologies. Solar energy is a crucial energy source that requires solar capture, conversion, and storage. Solar energy Conversions are categorized into three major categories conferring to their primary energy product: solar fuels, solar electricity, and solar thermal systems. Individually, all three standard methods of exploiting solar resources have untapped competency well beyond their existing practice.
This Research Topic aims to present new research findings as well as reviews of significant work in the field of solar thermal energy systems, electrical energy storage, thermal energy storage, solar photovoltaic thermal systems (PVT), and hybrid solar systems. We invite you to submit your original experimental, theoretical, and review work to this Research Topic .
Topics of interest for this Research Topic include but are not limited to:
1. Thermal energy grid storage for further applications via the CSP/multi-junction photovoltaics system, solar fuels through thermochemical redox cycles, photochemical and high-temperature electrolysis systems with better economic performance due to the dramatic drop in the cost of solar energy.
2. Thermal energy storage materials and techniques (phase change material, thermochemical materials, metal hydrates thermal energy storage materials, sensible heat storage, latent heat storage, thermochemical heat storage, or a combination of these), thermal energy storage materials development and characterization.
3. Solar thermal systems with thermal energy storage (concentrating solar thermal system, solar water heating systems, solar cookers, solar desalination, solar dryer, solar greenhouse, thermal processing of food in agriculture, photovoltaic thermal system, hybrid solar thermal system, thermal energy storage in the building).
