Economic competitiveness of bioethanol production strongly depends on the amount of heat and power consumed during the production process. Integration of different energy conversion processes by polygeneration is one of the solutions to minimize the use of energy resources to best meet user’s...

Solar and wind energy systems are omnipresent, freely available, environmental friendly, and they are considered as promising power generating sources due to their availability and topological advantages for local power generations. Hybrid solar-wind energy systems, uses two renewable energy...

Based on the I-V curves of a photovoltaic (PV) module, a novel and simple model is proposed in this paper to predict the PV module performance for engineering applications. Five parameters are introduced in this model to account for the complex dependence of the PV module performance upon...

An electrolyte-supported hybrid direct carbon fuel cell (DCFC) was used to evaluate the performance of different carbon fuels in this study. The direct carbon fuel cell consists of a samarium doped ceria (SDC) electrolyte, a Ni/SDC anode and a Ba0.5Sr0.5Co0.8Fe0.2O3−δ cathode. Three types of...

Solar energy and wind energy are the two most viable renewable energy resources in the world. Good compensation characters are usually found between solar energy and wind energy. This paper recommend an optimal design model for designing hybrid solar-wind systems employing battery banks for...