drying is a high energy consuming process. solar drying is one of the most popular methods for dehydration of agricultural products. in the present study, the performance of a forced convection solar dryer equipped with recycling air system and desiccant chamber was investigated. the solar dryer is comprised of solar collector, drying chamber, silica jell desiccant chamber, air ducts, fan and m...

Producing cost-competitive small and medium-sized solar cooling systems is currently a significant challenge. Due to system complexity, extensive engineering, design and equipment costs; the installation costs of solar thermal cooling systems are prohibitively high. In efforts to overcome these limitations, a novel sorption heat pump module has been developed and directly integrated into a sola...

•CO2 is captured from dilute sources and converted to synthesis gas using sunlight•PET plastic waste simultaneously upcycled glycolic acid during the process•A single encapsulated perovskite solar cell generates photovoltage power process•CO2 with amine/hydroxide, its reduction enabled by a molecular catalyst It becoming likely that net carbon zero future will rely on recycling of atmospheric C...

The development of numerical models and tools which have operational space weather potential is an increasingly important area research. This study presents recent Canadian efforts toward the a framework for Sun-to-Earth simulations solar wind disturbances. modular three-dimensional (3D) simulation based on semi-empirical data-driven approach to describe corona MHD-based description heliosphere...

This paper present a control strategy for the operation of solar energy generation integrated with grid. Boost converter is used to achieve maximum power extraction from the available solar power. The buck converter and bi-directional converter connected with common dc bus, that dc bus connected different loads with constant dc voltage. The hysteresis current controller has implemented in inver...

In this study, thermodynamic and economic analysis of a photovoltaic electricity generation system (PVEGS) with and without self-cleaning panels is reported. In the first part, thermodynamic analyses are used to characterize the performance of the system. In the second part, the economic comparison of photovoltaic electricity generation with and without self-cleaning panels is carried out for a...

Solar-powered high-altitude unmanned platforms are highly optimized and integrated aircraft. In order to account for the complex, multi-physical interactions between their systems, we propose using integrated simulation models throughout the aircraft’s life cycle. Especially small teams with limited ressources should benefit from this approach. In this paper, we describe our approach to an inte...

This paper proposes a new configuration for solar energy conversion systems. One challenging issue of the photovoltaic (PV) systems is partial shading, and in this paper Module Integrated Converters (MIC) are used to overcome this problem in PV arrays. A few boost converters are employed as MICs to mitigate the shading effect. Furthermore, to reduce the cost and to increase the system performan...