Harvesting solar energy onboard LTA systems: Modeling and design

Modeling and Design of Solar Energy Systems including Solar Economics

1. F-Chart Method 1.1. Performance and Design of Liquid-Based Solar Heating Systems 1.1.1. Storage Capacity Correction 1.1.2. Collector Flow Rate Correction 1.1.3. Load Heat Exchanger Size Correction 1.2. Performance and Design of Air-Based Solar Heating Systems 1.2.1. Pebble Bed Storage Size Correction 1.2.2. Air Flow Rate Correction 1.3. Performance and Design of Solar Service Water Systems 1...

‌Optimal design of onboard energy storage systems with volume limitation for urban electrical rail transportation

Train braking energy regeneration in urban electrical rail transportation systems can reduce energy consumption and operational cost of the system. In this paper, optimal design of an onboard energy storage system (OESS) with volume constraint is presented for urban electrical rail transportation systems (ERTS). Onboard super-capacitors are considered as the storage system. The objective functi...

Energy Harvesting Systems Design for Railroad Safety

Implications of solar energy harvesting on sensor networks design

The design of wireless sensor networks presents a host of challenges like power management, ensuring coverage of an area with sensor nodes, providing fault tolerance in case of node failures and localization of nodes. But managing the power of a sensor node given the energy constraints, such that the lifetime of the node, the network and the application’s performance are maximized, still contin...

“Solar and Thermal Energy Harvesting Textile Composites

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