IMDEA Energy Institute

Determination of energy storage scheme for hybrid photovoltaic-assisted heating system in residential buildings

Photovoltaic (PV)-assisted heating systems can meet residential electrical and thermal demands using heat storage (HS) or Li-ion battery (LB) storage. However, identifying the appropriate storage scheme under different solar-resource and building-load conditions remains challengi...

Dynamic operation of a hybrid air-driven concentrating solar thermal system based on rotary receiver and radial thermocline

Air-driven concentrating solar thermal (CST) systems can supply heat up to 800 °C for supercritical CO 2 (sCO 2 ) Brayton cycles and process heat, but their integrated transient behaviour under variable solar input and hybrid electric heating remains uncharacterised. This study d...

Global prospects of low-carbon photocatalytic hydrogen based on regionalised optimisation

Photocatalytic hydrogen has gained interest as a solar-driven pathway for renewable hydrogen production, particularly in regions with abundant sunlight and remote locations with limited industrial infrastructure. However, its large-scale potential and environmental performance re...

Direct Growth of BODIPY‐Based Conjugated Porous Polymer Shell on Upconversion Nanoparticles for NIR‐Driven Photocatalysis

ABSTRACT The great applications of upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) can be further extended by their encapsulation within conjugated porous polymers (CPPs). However, the synthesis of monodisperse core@shell based CPPs upconversion nanohybrids remains a challenge. Herein, we rep...