Publications related to Solar furnace

Solar cooking potential in Switzerland: Nodal modelling and optimization

Andreas Schueler, Josef Andreas Schuler, Dasaraden Mauree, Luc Burnier, Olivia Valérie Charlotte Bouvard, Jérémy Jacques Antonin Fleury

Solar cooking is one possible solution to reduce the domination of fossil fuel in the domestic sector and to benefit from renewable energy. This study assesses the solar cooking potential in Switzerland. A nodal model, based on energy balance equations of ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

Box-type solar cooker

Andreas Schueler, Dasaraden Mauree, Olivia Valérie Charlotte Bouvard

Solar cooker with a core comprising at least one insulating wall and at least one window having a glazing on which is deposited a low-e coating, characterized by the fact that said window(s) is/are oriented along several directions ...

2018

High-flux optical systems for solar thermochemistry

Sophia Haussener, Gaël Jean Clément Levêque

High-flux optical systems (HFOSs) are optical concentrators used to increase the radiative flux of the natural terrestrial solar irradiation. High radiative flux concentration leads to high energy density in solar receivers which allow to obtain high tempe ...

2017

Pore-level engineering of macroporous media for increased performance of solar-driven thermochemical fuel processing

Sophia Haussener, Silvan Suter

The performance of high-temperature solar reactors incorporating porous ceramic materials that serve as radiative absorbers and chemical reaction sites can be improved significantly by tailoring their pore structure. We investigated the changes in their ef ...

Elsevier2014

Multi-Scale Modelling of a Solar Reactor for the High-Temperature Step of a Sulphur-Iodine-Based Water Splitting Cycle

Sophia Haussener

The 3-step sulphur-iodine-based thermochemical cycle for splitting water is considered. The high-temperature step consists of the evaporation, decomposition, and reduction of H2SO4 to SO2 using concentrated solar process heat. This step is followed by the ...

ASME2012

Sol-gel deposition and optical characterization of multilayered SiO2/Ti1-xSixO2 coatings on solar collector glasses

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Andreas Schueler, Christian Roecker, Estelle De Chambrier

Thin films of silicon oxide and silicon titanium mixed oxides are deposited on solar collector glazing in a sol–gel dip-coating process based on alcoxide precursors. Spectrophotometry is used to characterize the relation of film thickness and withdrawal sp ...

2006

Angle-dependent spectrophotometry of Sol-Gel deposited multilayered oxide coatings on solar collector glasses

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Andreas Schueler, Christian Roecker, Estelle De Chambrier

Multilayered thin oxide films have been deposited on solar collector glazing by sol-gel dip coating in a dust-free environment provided by a laminar flux chapel. A superior film quality and a satisfying film homogeneity have been achieved for the produced ...

2005