Desiccant evaporative systems are heat driven at moderate temperature and are usually coupled with solar collectors or with waste heat. The performance of desiccant systems is very sensitive to outside conditions and to the efficiency of the system components. In this paper the impact of these...

A higher solar-to-electricity conversion efficiency was one of the major advantages of the solar-fossil hybrid systems, compared to the solar-only power plants. In this paper, a new mechanism to reveal the reasons for the improved solar-to-electricity efficiency in a solar-hybrid power plant was...