Engineering topics
Publications and source records attributed to Nam, Young Suk.
An adsorption system can be used as part of a climate control system in a vehicle or in any other space requiring heating or cooling. An adsorbent bed can include a plurality of plates, a layer including an adsorbent material adjacent to a portion of at least one plate; and a plurality of passages between the plates.
A solar thermal photovoltaic device, and method of forming same, includes a solar absorber and a spectrally selective emitter formed on either side of a thermally conductive substrate. The solar absorber is configured to absorb incident solar radiation. The solar absorber and the spectrally selective emitter are configured with an optimized emitter-to-absorber area ratio. The solar thermal photovoltaic device also includes a photovoltaic cell in thermal communication with the spectrally selective emitter. The spectrally selective emitter is configured to permit high emittance for energies above a bandgap of the photovoltaic cell and configured to permit low emittance for energies below the bandgap.