Session: Concentrated Solar Power Generation and Chemical Processing I

The session will provide a forum for the exposure and exchange of ideas, methods and results in solar energy science and engineering for power generation and chemical processing. The session includes, but is not limited to, the following topics: (1) Advancements in concentrated solar energy applications: power generation; chemical fuels and energy vectors; materials processing and recycling; agricultural, industrial and environmental processing; energy storage; hybrid technologies (2) Multi-physics and multi-scale analyses including transport phenomena and chemical kinetics (3) Solar energy materials (4) Optics of solar energy systems (5) Control, dynamics and diagnostics of solar energy systems