IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/energy/v288y2024ics0360544223031213.html

Numerical and experimental analysis on convective heat losses from a fully open cylindrical cascaded cavity receiver

Author

Listed:
  • Wasankar, Kushal S.
  • Gulhane, Nitin P.
  • Taler, Jan
  • Taler, Dawid
  • Ocłoń, Paweł
  • Vallati, Andrea

Abstract

A cavity receiver finds substantial application to improve the thermal performance of a solar parabolic dish collector. However, its limited surface area shortens the scope of utilization and bars thermal efficiency. This research has intercepted such problems by including a cascaded cavity receiver, which offers more surface area and high-temperature distributions, representing more heat absorption and utilization to convert into thermal energy. The crucial design of a cascaded receiver consists of two concentric steel cylinders with different heights attached at one end. The design is tested theoretically with the help of CFD analysis, and the heat loss results are compared with the traditional cavity receiver. Furthermore, according to design, an experimental set-up is fabricated, and experimentations are conducted in off-flux mode using an electric heater. The Pyromark coatings minimize radiation losses and implement the working conditions in the lab testing scenario. The convective heat losses estimated reduction of 4.3 % at 0°–24.8 % at 90° due to the application of coatings in the normal cavity and 3.4 % at 0°–16.4 % at 90° due to the application of coatings in the cascaded cavity. Also, the cascaded cavity receiver minimizes 6.98 %–13.93 % convective heat losses compared to traditional cavity receivers.

Suggested Citation

  • Wasankar, Kushal S. & Gulhane, Nitin P. & Taler, Jan & Taler, Dawid & Ocłoń, Paweł & Vallati, Andrea, 2024. "Numerical and experimental analysis on convective heat losses from a fully open cylindrical cascaded cavity receiver," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 288(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:energy:v:288:y:2024:i:c:s0360544223031213
    DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2023.129727
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544223031213
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/j.energy.2023.129727?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to

    for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. de Beer, J.H. & le Roux, W.G. & Sciacovelli, A. & Meyer, J.P., 2023. "Effect of a novel cooling window on a recuperated solar-dish Brayton cycle," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 208(C), pages 465-480.
    2. Loni, Reyhaneh & Askari Asli-Areh, E. & Ghobadian, B. & Kasaeian, A.B. & Gorjian, Sh. & Najafi, G. & Bellos, Evangelos, 2020. "Research and review study of solar dish concentrators with different nanofluids and different shapes of cavity receiver: Experimental tests," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 145(C), pages 783-804.
    3. Venkatachalam, Thirunavukkarasu & Cheralathan, M., 2019. "Effect of aspect ratio on thermal performance of cavity receiver for solar parabolic dish concentrator: An experimental study," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 139(C), pages 573-581.
    4. Xiao, Lan & Guo, Feng-Wei & Wu, Shuang-Ying & Chen, Zhi-Li, 2020. "A comprehensive simulation on optical and thermal performance of a cylindrical cavity receiver in a parabolic dish collector system," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 145(C), pages 878-892.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Rajan, Abhinav & Reddy, K.S., 2025. "Integrated optical-thermal model to predict the performance of a solar parabolic dish collector for process heating applications," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 321(C).
    2. Wang, Zhimin & Kong, Fance & Chan, Wenwu & Yue, Shangyu, 2025. "Study on the effect of wind direction on the thermal performance of cavity receiver for trough solar system: Artificial neural network approach based on genetic algorithm," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 320(C).

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Hassan, Atazaz & Quanfang, Chen & Abbas, Sajid & Lu, Wu & Youming, Luo, 2021. "An experimental investigation on thermal and optical analysis of cylindrical and conical cavity copper tube receivers design for solar dish concentrator," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 179(C), pages 1849-1864.
    2. Wang, Ding & Chen, Yuxuan & Xiao, Hu & Zhang, Yanping, 2022. "Effects of geometric and operating parameters on thermal performance of conical cavity receivers using supercritical CO2 as heat transfer fluid," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 185(C), pages 804-819.
    3. Chen, Yuxuan & Wang, Ding & Zou, Chongzhe & Gao, Wei & Zhang, Yanping, 2022. "Thermal performance and thermal stress analysis of a supercritical CO2 solar conical receiver under different flow directions," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 246(C).
    4. Kasaeian, Alibakhsh & Kouravand, Amir & Vaziri Rad, Mohammad Amin & Maniee, Siavash & Pourfayaz, Fathollah, 2021. "Cavity receivers in solar dish collectors: A geometric overview," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 169(C), pages 53-79.
    5. Vishnu, Senthil Kumar & Senthil, Ramalingam, 2026. "Review of key factors for optimizing the thermal performance of parabolic dish solar collectors," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 226(PC).
    6. Ang, Daniel & Chinnici, Alfonso & Tian, Zhao F. & Saw, Woei L. & Nathan, Graham J., 2022. "Influence of particle loading, Froude and Stokes number on the global thermal performance of a vortex-based solar particle receiver," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 184(C), pages 201-214.
    7. Zhang, Xueyan & Gao, Teng & Liu, Yang & Chen, Fei, 2023. "Construction and concentrating performance of a critically truncated compound parabolic concentrator without light escape," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 269(C).
    8. Li, Xueling & Li, Renfu & Chang, Huawei & Zeng, Lijian & Xi, Zhaojun & Li, Yichao, 2022. "Numerical simulation of a cavity receiver enhanced with transparent aerogel for parabolic dish solar power generation," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 246(C).
    9. Kumar, Kolli Harish & Rajan, Abhinav & Karmakar, Malay & Mondal, Bittagopal & Mallisetty, Phani Kumar & Reddy, K.S., 2025. "Comparative thermal assessment of Al2O3/EG and ZnO/EG as heat transfer fluids in solar parabolic dish receiver," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 249(C).
    10. Shoeibi, Shahin & Rahbar, Nader & Esfahlani, Ahad Abedini & Kargarsharifabad, Hadi, 2021. "Energy matrices, exergoeconomic and enviroeconomic analysis of air-cooled and water-cooled solar still: Experimental investigation and numerical simulation," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 171(C), pages 227-244.
    11. Khan, Shehzaib Yousuf & Uzair, Muhammad & Allauddin, Usman, 2026. "Coupled optical-thermal performance enhancement of solar parabolic dish system using a hemiellipsoidal tubular receiver," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 256(PF).
    12. Abbas, Sajid & Hassan, Atazaz & Emmanuel, Bisengimana & Yuan, Yanping & Zhou, Jinzhi & Yousuf, Saima, 2025. "Development and performance investigation of an indirect expansion solar heat pump integrated with a high-concentration conical cavity receiver for heating applications," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 340(C).
    13. Rajan, Abhinav & Reddy, K.S., 2023. "Integrated optical and thermal model to investigate the performance of a solar parabolic dish collector coupled with a cavity receiver," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 219(P1).
    14. Chen, Jinli & Xiao, Gang & Xu, Haoran & Zhou, Xin & Yang, Jiamin & Ni, Mingjiang & Cen, Kefa, 2022. "Experiment and dynamic simulation of a solar tower collector system for power generation," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 196(C), pages 946-958.
    15. Saravanan, Ravi & Karthikeyan, Alagu & Prabhakar, Prajith & Poyyamozhi, N., 2025. "Experimental analysis of thermal energy variations in parabolic dish solar collector with hybrid heat storage medium," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 251(C).
    16. Fang, Shibiao & Mu, Lin & Tu, Wenrong, 2021. "Application design and assessment of a novel small-decentralized solar distillation device based on energy, exergy, exergoeconomic, and enviroeconomic parameters," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 164(C), pages 1350-1363.
    17. Mohamed Shameer Peer & Tsega Y. Melesse & Pier Francesco Orrù & Mattia Braggio & Mario Petrollese, 2025. "Next-Generation CSP: The Synergy of Nanofluids and Industry 4.0 for Sustainable Solar Energy Management," Energies, MDPI, vol. 18(8), pages 1-37, April.
    18. Shuai, Wei & Zhang, Tian & Lv, Hongkun & Ying, Haotian & Wang, Keqin & Xu, Haoran & Chen, Dong & Zhu, Peiwang & Xiao, Gang, 2024. "Experiment and dynamic simulation of micro gas turbine combined with concentrated solar power system," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 237(PB).
    19. Martínez-Manuel, Leopoldo & Wang, Wujun & Laumert, Björn & Peña-Cruz, Manuel I., 2021. "Numerical analysis on the optical geometrical optimization for an axial type impinging solar receiver," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 216(C).
    20. Zhang, Lianjie & Xu, Dongjun & Li, Wei & Li, Nianqi & Wang, Qiuwang & Varbanov, Petar Sabev, 2025. "Dynamic regulation strategy of the SCO2 Brayton cycle system based on PCM and its instability evaluation model," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 334(C).

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:energy:v:288:y:2024:i:c:s0360544223031213. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/energy .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.