Numerical and experimental evaluation and optimization of ceramic foam as solar absorber – Single-layer vs multi-layer configurations

Fritz Zaversky, Leticia Aldaz, Marcelino Sánchez, Antonio L. Ávila-Marín, M. Isabel Roldán, Jesús Fernández-Reche, Alexander Füssel, Wieland Beckert and Jörg Adler

Applied Energy, 2018, vol. 210, issue C, 375 pages

Abstract: This work targets the numerical and experimental evaluation of ceramic foam as solar absorber material for solar thermal power generation. Two different 1-D model types with local thermal non-equilibrium (LTNE) have been developed independently at CENER and Fraunhofer-IKTS. The modeling of radiation propagation inside the foam is considered via two approaches. One approach is based on a discrete-ordinate solution of the radiation transport equation; the other imposes the solar flux defining an exponential attenuation, as derived from Bouguer’s law, and considering thermal radiation transport according to Rosseland’s diffusion approximation.

Keywords: Concentrated solar power (CSP); Ceramic foam absorber; Optimization; 1-D modeling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.11.003

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