Bring it on: Solar Thermal (Solar Thermal: New Ways to Get Hot)

Wednesday, April 17th: 8:30-10:00 AM

Presenters: Curtis Robbins, Rolf Meissner, William Duff, Sumathy Krishnan, Gilad Almogy, Elias Yazdanshenas

More details on each presenter/presentation below.

Integration of a site-built Thermal air collector into an energy management system

Authors: Curtis Robbins, Robert Turner, Nicholas Baker, S. Kent Hoekman
Presenter: Curtis Robbins, M.S. M.E., Atmopheric Sciences, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV

CPC evacuated tube collector systems for process heat up to 160 °C

Authors: Rolf Meissner, Michael Dipaolo
Presenter: Rolf Meissner, Ph.D., Physics, Stroudsburg, PA; Ritter Solar, Karlsbad, Germany

A 14 year experimental, modeling, reliability and simulation study of a novel geometry icpc solar collector demonstration

Authors: William Duff, Jirachote Daosukho
Presenter: William Duff, PhD, M.S., MBA, B. of Mech. Eng., Colorado State University; Fort Collins, CO

Experimental investigation on thermosyphon solar water heater using co2 as working fluid

Authors: Sumathy Krishnan, Ruchi Shukla
Presenter: Sumathy Krishnan, Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND

Maximizing thermal cooling efficiency and value with solar cogeneration and low-cost storage

Authors: Gilad Almogy, Mani Thothadri, Andrea Gains-Germain
Presenter: Gilad Almogy, Cogenra Solar, Mountain View, CA

Experimental investigation of a solar licl dryer system

Authors: Elias Yazdanshenas, Faezeh Asgari, Ali Moazemi Goudarzi, Eshagh Yazdanshenas
Presenter: Elias Yazdanshenas, Bachelor, Engineering Department, Islamic Azad University of Semnan Branch, Iran