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Supramolecular hydrogels: A versatile and sustainable platform for ...

Supramolecular hydrogels have gained popularity recently due to their unique potential in various energy applications. One of the main advantages of supramolecular hydrogels is their ability to store and release energy in response to external stimuli [13], e.g., changes in pH, temperature, and light.This property makes them …

Innovative Thermal Energy Storage (TES) with Phase Change Material …

Solar energy is the most widely harnessed one although it exhibits unevenness in distribution. Integrating latent heat storage materials into Photovoltaic systems could function as thermal storage ...

An energy-economic analysis of a hybrid PV/wind/battery energy-driven hydrogen generation system in rural regions of Egypt …

The design of three green HESSs, gas hydrogen storage (GH 2), liquid hydrogen storage (LH 2), and material-based hydrogen storage (MH 2), were compared. The results reveal that GH 2 has the largest TLCC (568,164.60 USD/year), followed by MH 2 (460,674.18 USD/year) and LH 2 (383,895.25 USD/year) The RCI identifies LH 2 (0.21) …

Thermal energy storage materials and systems for solar energy ...

Locally available small grained materials like gravel or silica sand can be used for thermal energy storage. Silica sand grains will be average 0.2–0.5 mm in size and can be used in packed bed heat storage systems using air as HTF. Packing density will be high for small grain materials.

Efficient energy generation and thermal storage in a photovoltaic …

Moreover, the proposed system generates almost 1.8 and 2 times more thermal energy per square meter in July and November, respectively, compared to a standalone photovoltaic thermal system coupled with a phase change material.

Thermal energy storage with phase change materials to increase …

Keywords: Latent Heat Thermal Energy Storage; Phase Change Material; Passive Thermal Management; Solar Energy; PV Performance 1. Introduction The energy from solar radiation reaching the surface of the earth is many times higher than the global energy consumption. For the production of electric energy the photovoltaic (PV) effect …

Towards a sustainable energy future for Egypt: A systematic review …

Solar photovoltaic (PV) systems have been used for various applications such as lighting, pumping, commercial advertising, desalination and cold storage in …

Environmental Impacts of Photovoltaic Energy …

The construction sector is one of the areas covered by these goals. The report of the United Nations Environment Program [] states "buildings accounted for 36% of global energy demand and 37% of …

Recent Advances in Solar Photovoltaic Materials and Systems for Energy Storage …

Background In recent years, solar photovoltaic technology has experienced significant advances in both materials and systems, leading to improvements in efficiency, cost, and energy storage capacity.

Energy Storage Materials | Journal | ScienceDirect by Elsevier

Energy Storage Materials is an international multidisciplinary journal for communicating scientific and technological advances in the field of materials and their devices for advanced energy storage and relevant energy conversion (such as in metal-O2 battery). It publishes comprehensive research articles including full papers and short communications, as well …

A Circular Economy for Solar Photovoltaic System Materials: …

As awareness of current practices grows, and the demand for critical PV module material increases, U.S. industry stakeholders, regulators, and policymakers are starting to (1) consider solutions to drive and enable environmentally sustainable materials management decisions and behaviors and (2) identify barriers to a circular economy for PV ...

EGYPT: KarmSolar secures $2m for solar energy storage

Solar PV provider KarmSolar is securing $2 million in funding for electricity storage at the Cairo 3A poultry farm. The company already operates a solar PV plant there. The 47 million Egyptian pounds …

Efficient energy storage technologies for photovoltaic systems

This review paper sets out the range of energy storage options for photovoltaics including both electrical and thermal energy storage systems. The …

An Overview of the Nano-Enhanced Phase Change Materials for Energy …

Furthermore, it is also reported that the exploration of phase change materials enhances the overall efficiency of solar thermal energy storage systems and photovoltaic-nano-enhanced phase change materials systems.

Insights into the relationship between ferroelectric and photovoltaic properties in CsGeI 3 for solar energy …

Materials such as oxide and halide perovskites that simultaneously exhibit spontaneous polarization and absorption of visible light are called photoferroelectrics. They hold great promise for the development of applications in optoelectronics, information storage, and energy conversion. Devices based on ferroelectr

Phase change materials and nano-enhanced phase change materials …

In recent years, photovoltaic thermal (PVT) systems have emerged as an imperative research area due to the escalating demand for energy worldwide. Phase change materials (PCMs) considered as the most suitable materials to harvest thermal energy effectively from renewable energy sources.As such, this paper reviews and …

Mohamed El-Morsi | The American University in Cairo

Mohamed El-Morsi is a professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The American University in Cairo (AUC). He earned his BSc in 1990 from Ain Shams University, his MSc in 1995 from Ain Shams University and his PhD in 2002 from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. ... Dehumidification Desalination System Augmented by Thermal …

Solar Integration: Solar Energy and Storage Basics

Sometimes two is better than one. Coupling solar energy and storage technologies is one such case. The reason: Solar energy is not always produced at the time energy is needed most. Peak power usage often occurs on summer afternoons and evenings, when solar energy generation is falling. Temperatures can be hottest during these times, and people ...

Economic viability of solar energy export from the Middle East …

The Middle East and North Africa can exploit solar energy resources and export them to Europe and South Asia for a sustainable future of the world. A high voltage direct current (HVDC) multi-terminal transmission grid is employed in this research to export solar energy to South Asia from the Middle East and from North Africa to Europe. …

Nanostructured Materials for Next-Generation Energy Storage …

Nanostructured Materials for Next-Generation Energy Storage and Conversion: Photovoltaic and Solar Energy, is volume 4 of a 4-volume series on sustainable energy.Photovoltaic and Solar Energy while being a comprehensive reference work, is written with minimal jargon related to various aspects of solar energy and energy …

A review of energy storage types, applications and

A class of energy storage materials that exploits the favourable chemical and electrochemical properties of a family of molecules known as quinones are described by Huskinson et al. [31]. This is a metal-free flow battery based on the redox chemistry that undergoes extremely rapid and reversible two-electron two-proton reduction on a glassy ...

Techno-environ-economic assessment of photovoltaic and CSP with storage systems in China and Egypt …

Egypt and China have a large-scale plan to install CSP and PV power plants at different sites around the country with the purpose of utilizing this clean, sustainable solar energy source [54,55]. The literature review demonstrates that most research on CSP or PV systems is conducted independently, without considering which …

Materials Challenges in Photovoltaic Energy Generation in Space

Abstract. Virtually all spacecraft employ photovoltaic energy conversion for continuous power generation. Compared to their counterpart on Earth, photovoltaic modules in the space environment face a unique set of performance requirements. Among the most demanding ones are the need to have the highest possible specific power …

Tin oxide for optoelectronic, photovoltaic and energy storage …

Tin dioxide (SnO2), the most stable oxide of tin, is a metal oxide semiconductor that finds its use in a number of applications due to its interesting energy band gap that is easily tunable by doping with foreign elements or by nanostructured design such as thin film, nanowire or nanoparticle formation, etc. Journal of Materials Chemistry …

Energy storage: Applications and challenges

1. Introduction. Energy continues to be a key element to the worldwide development. Due to the oil price volatility, depletion of fossil fuel resources, global warming and local pollution, geopolitical tensions and growth in energy demand, alternative energies, renewable energies and effective use of fossil fuels have become much more important …

Egypt signs letter of intent to join Battery Energy Storage Systems ...

CAIRO - 3 December 2023: Egypt signed a letter of intent to join the Battery Energy Storage Systems Alliance (BESS), which is one of the main initiatives of the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP) during COP28 in Dubai. Egypt''s signature brings the number of joining countries to 10 countries, as the letter of intent was ...

Sustainable large-scale energy storage in Egypt

The successful completion of the project will support Egyptian Government''s target of 42 % supply of electricity from renewable energy sources by 2030 and the national priority …

Environmental Impacts of Photovoltaic Energy Storage in a …

Climate change, the economic crisis and the current geopolitical situation are the biggest challenges of today. They participate to a fundamental extent in the creation of international policies. Renewable energy sources are thus gaining worldwide popularity. The paper deals with the assessment of the impact of four selected stages of the life …

Egypt''s first solar battery storage PPA secures debt funding

Egyptian solar energy company KarmSolar announced on Sunday that it has secured 47 million Egyptian pounds ($2.4 million) in debt funding from Qatar …

Recent advances in solar photovoltaic materials and systems for energy …

Recent advancements in solar photovoltaic (PV) materials and systems have resulted in considerable efficiency, cost, and durability improvements. PV has …

Energy Materials Laboratory

The energy materials laboratory (EML) at the American University in Cairo (AUC) is focused on designing materials for a plethora of applications, including energy conversion and storage, water desalination, biosensors, biofuel, etc. The research activities include both experimental and computational sides. The projects include green hydrogen ...

Solar PV energy: From material to use, and the most commonly used techniques to maximize the power output of PV …

The main concept of solar PV energy is the direct conversion of sunlight into electricity based on the PV effect using solar or PV cells, as shown in Fig. 6 (Zekry et al., 2018). Sunlight or solar radiation consists mainly of photons, which are discrete units of energy held in light, while a PV cell consists of semiconductor materials (such as Si) …

Scatec, EEHC to build Egypt''s first solar and battery storage project

CAIRO - 3 December 2023: Norway''s Scatec and the Egyptian Electricity Holding Company (EEHC) have signed a cooperation agreement for the first a solar and battery storage …

A review on the applications of porous materials in solar energy ...

In a numerical work, Ming et al. [60] used porous material as an energy storage layer in the solar chimney power plant system and they considered soil as the porous material. The porosity of the layer was selected as 0.6. They observed that the temperature distributions at the surface and inside the porous layer varied significantly …

Energizing the thermophysical properties of phase change material using carbon-based nano additives for sustainable thermal energy storage ...

This article investigates the effects of carbon-based nano additives on the thermophysical properties of phase change material for sustainable thermal energy storage in photovoltaic thermal systems. The authors present experimental and numerical results on the thermal conductivity, latent heat, melting temperature and solidification …

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