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2. Solar-powered Stirling engine - Wikipedia

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   NASA patented a type of solar-powered Stirling engine on August 3, 1976. It used solar energy to pump water from a river, lake, or stream. [1] The purpose of this apparatus is to “provide a low-cost, low-technology pump having particular utility in irrigation systems employed in underdeveloped arid regions of the earth…[using] the basic principles of the Stirling heat engine“.

3. Solar-powered pump - Wikipedia

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   A windpump replaced by a solar-powered pump at a water hole in the Augrabies Falls National Park. [Notes 1] This solar water pump up to 3.7 kW is useful for farmers.Solar-powered pumps run on electricity generated by photovoltaic (PV) panels or the radiated thermal energy available from collected sunlight as opposed to grid electricity- or diesel-run water pumps. [1]

4. Solar pond - Wikipedia

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   Solar Evaporation Ponds in the Atacama Desert. The largest operating solar pond for electricity generation was the Beit HaArava pond built in Israel and operated up until 1988. It had an area of 210,000 m² and gave an electrical output of 5 MW. [3] India was the first Asian country to have established a solar pond in Bhuj, in Gujarat.

5. Solar desalination - Wikipedia

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   Solar-powered RO desalination is common in demonstration plants due to the modularity and scalability of both PV and RO systems. An economic analysis [40] that explored an optimisation strategy [41] of PV-powered RO reported favorable results. PV converts solar radiation into direct-current (DC) electricity, which powers the RO unit. The ...

6. Floating solar - Wikipedia

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   In May 2008, the Far Niente Winery in Oakville, California, installed 994 solar PV modules with a total capacity of 175 kW onto 130 pontoons and floating them on the winery's irrigation pond. [ 9 ] [ 20 ] Several small-scale floating PV farms were built over the next seven years.

7. Solar-assisted heat pump - Wikipedia

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   The operating conditions' optimization of this system is the main challenge, because there are two opposing trends of the performance of the two sub-systems: by way of example, decreasing the evaporation temperature of the working fluid increases the thermal efficiency of the solar panel but decreases the performance of the heat pump, and consequently the COP. [4]