By Professor Robert Taylor

Books

Mahian O; Wei J; Taylor RA; Wongwises S, 2021, Solar-Driven Water Treatment: Re-engineering and Accelerating Nature’s Water Cycle, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-90991-4.00010-4

Book Chapters

Omar A; Li Q; Saldivia Salazar D; Nashed A; Dang B, 2021, 'Solar-driven water treatment: Generation III - Low technology readiness', in Mahian O; Wei J; Taylor RA; Wongwises S (ed.), Solar-Driven Water Treatment Re-engineering and Accelerating Nature’s Water Cycle, Academic Press, pp. 201 - 261

Taylor R, 2017, 'Multi-effect absorption chillers with concentrating solar collectors', in The Solar Cooling Design Guide Case Studies of Successful Solar Air Conditioning Design, John Wiley & Sons, pp. 116 - 140, http://au.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-3433031258.html

White S; Sethuvenkatraman S; Peristy M; Pintaldi S; Goldsworthy M; Shirazi A; Taylor R, 2017, 'Design guide for solar cooling with double-effect absorption chillers', in The Solar Cooling Design Guide: Case Studies of Successful Solar Air Conditioning Design, pp. 99 - 138, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9783433606841.ch5

Taylor R; Hewakuruppu Y, 2014, 'Nanofluid-based optical engineering: Fundamentals and applications', in Murshed SMS; de Castro CAN (ed.), Nanofluids: synthesis, properties and applications, Nova Publishers, pp. 237 - 259, https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=50897&osCsid=031440371d3ff823ef1906fca6ef6a52

Phelan P; Taylor R; Adrian RJ; Prasher R; Otanicar T, 2012, 'Light-Induced Energy Conversion in Liquid Nanoparticle Suspensions', in Minkowycz WJ; Sparrow EM; Abraham JP (ed.), Nanoparticle Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow (Advances in Numerical Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow), CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group), Boca Raton, FL 33487-2742, pp. 123 - 143, http://www.crcnetbase.com/isbn/9781439861950

Edited Books

Taylor R; Yeoh G, (ed.), 2019, Handbook of multiphase flow science and technology, Springer

Journal articles

Sangtarash A; Maadi SR; Taylor RA; Arabkoohsar A; Wongwises S; Sheremet M; Mahian O; Sahin AZ, 2024, 'A comprehensive investigation of porous media's effects on the performance of photovoltaic thermal systems', Applied Thermal Engineering, 245, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2024.122766

Ali MT; Le-Clech P; Taylor RA, 2024, 'Flux Performance Modeling of Forward Osmosis Draw Solutions in the Absence of Mass Diffusivity Data', Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 63, pp. 4093 - 4100, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.4c00193

Saldivia D; Bruce A; Taylor RA, 2024, 'Design Optimization of a Horizontal Particle Receiver for a Modular Beam Down Receiver CSP', SolarPACES Conference Proceedings, 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.52825/solarpaces.v1i.664

Golab E; Vahedi B; Jain A; Taylor RA; Vafai K, 2023, 'Laminar forced convection in a tube with a nano-encapsulated phase change materials: Minimizing exergy losses and maximizing the heat transfer rate', Journal of Energy Storage, 65, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2023.107233

Xu L; Yang M; Wang X; Diao K; Zhu Y; Taylor R, 2023, 'Capacity optimization of hybrid renewable energy system considering part-load ratio and resource endowment', Applied Thermal Engineering, 230, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2023.120641

Li Q; Jiang L; Huang G; Wang DW; Shepherd J; Daiyan R; Markides CN; Taylor RA; Scott J, 2023, 'A ternary system exploiting the full solar spectrum to generate renewable hydrogen from a waste biomass feedstock', Energy and Environmental Science, 16, pp. 3497 - 3513, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d3ee00603d

Herrando M; Wang K; Huang G; Otanicar T; Mousa OB; Agathokleous RA; Ding Y; Kalogirou S; Ekins-Daukes N; Taylor RA; Markides CN, 2023, 'A review of solar hybrid photovoltaic-thermal (PV-T) collectors and systems', Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 97, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pecs.2023.101072

Motamedi M; Jia G; Yao Y; Shanks K; Yousefi P; Hewakuruppu YL; Rafeie M; Lindner F; Patterson R; Christiansen S; Plentz J; Koshy P; Taylor RA, 2023, 'Nanopatterned indium tin oxide as a selective coating for solar thermal applications', Renewable Energy, 210, pp. 386 - 396, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2023.04.020

Yang M; Zhi L; Diao K; Zhu Y; Taylor RA, 2023, 'Optical and thermal performance analysis of a compact solar collector with heat-pipe evacuated tube', Solar Energy, 258, pp. 118 - 129, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2023.04.036

Kim YC; Vijayaratnam PRS; Blanloeuil P; Taylor RA; Barber TJ, 2023, 'Corrigendum to ‘Ultrasonic Traveling Waves for Near-Wall Positioning of Single Microbubbles in a Flowing Channel’ [Ultrasound in Med & Biol. 49 (2023) 961-969, (S0301562922006500), (10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2022.11.018)]', Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 49, pp. 1476, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2023.03.006

Yang M; Zhi L; Liu H; Zhu Y; Taylor RA, 2023, 'Wind Load Similarity Relations for Parabolic Trough Collectors', Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Transactions of the ASME, 145, http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.4055602

Saldivia D; Taylor RA, 2023, 'A Novel Dual Receiver–Storage Design for Concentrating Solar Thermal Plants Using Beam-Down Optics', Energies, 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en16104157

Ellersdorfer P; Omar A; Taylor RA; Daiyan R; Leslie G, 2023, 'Multi-effect distillation: a sustainable option to large-scale green hydrogen production using solar energy', International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 48, pp. 31491 - 31505, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2023.04.261

Kim YC; Vijayaratnam PRS; Blanloeuil P; Taylor RA; Barber TJ, 2023, 'Ultrasonic Traveling Waves for Near-Wall Positioning of Single Microbubbles in a Flowing Channel', Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 49, pp. 961 - 969, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2022.11.018

Kim YC; Blanloeuil P; Li DD; Taylor RA; Barber TJ, 2023, 'Acoustically driven translation of a single bubble in pulsed traveling ultrasonic waves', Physics of Fluids, 35, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0138484

Mirza NR; Fernandes D; Li Q; Omar A; Zhao S; Xie Z; Taylor R; Allen J; Feron P, 2023, 'Reclaiming water from a direct air capture plant using vacuum membrane distillation – A bench-scale study', Separation and Purification Technology, 305, pp. 1 - 30, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.seppur.2022.122418

Sedighi M; Meybodi MA; Taylor RA; Padilla RV; Beath AC, 2022, 'A scaled-up, CSP integrated, high-temperature volumetric receiver with a semi-transparent packed-bed absorber', Energy Conversion and Management: X, 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecmx.2022.100328

Jiang L; Pan J; Li Q; Chen H; Zhou S; Yu Z; Jiang S; Yin H; Guan J; Taylor RA; Fisher R; Leslie G; Scott J; Zhao H; Wang DW, 2022, 'A holistic green system coupling hydrogen production with wastewater valorisation', EcoMat, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eom2.12254

Alagumalai A; Yang L; Ding Y; Marshall JS; Mesgarpour M; Wongwises S; Rashidi MM; Taylor RA; Mahian O; Sheremet M; Wang LP; Markides CN, 2022, 'Nano-engineered pathways for advanced thermal energy storage systems', Cell Reports Physical Science, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrp.2022.101007

Li Q; Charlton AJ; Omar A; Dang B; Le-Clech P; Scott J; Taylor RA, 2022, 'A novel concentrated solar membrane-distillation for water purification in a building integrated design', Desalination, 535, pp. 115828, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2022.115828

Sedighi M; Padilla RV; Rose A; Taylor RA, 2022, 'Optical analysis of a semi-transparent packed bed of spheres for next-generation volumetric solar receivers', Energy, 252, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2022.123985

Li G; Li M; Taylor R; Hao Y; Besagni G; Markides CN, 2022, 'Solar energy utilisation: Current status and roll-out potential', Applied Thermal Engineering, 209, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2022.118285

Arrif T; Hassani S; Guermoui M; Sánchez-González A; A.Taylor R; Belaid A, 2022, 'GA-GOA hybrid algorithm and comparative study of different metaheuristic population-based algorithms for solar tower heliostat field design', Renewable Energy, 192, pp. 745 - 758, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2022.04.162

Mohammadpour J; Lee A; Timchenko V; Taylor R, 2022, 'Nano-Enhanced Phase Change Materials for Thermal Energy Storage: A Bibliometric Analysis', Energies, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en15093426

Yang M; Zhang Y; Wang Q; Zhu Y; Taylor RA, 2022, 'A coupled structural-optical analysis of a novel umbrella heliostat', Solar Energy, 231, pp. 880 - 888, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2021.12.018

Shahraki ZH; Navidbakhsh M; Taylor RA, 2022, 'Coupling Contraction-expansion Arrays with Spiral Microchannels to Enhance Microfluidic-Based Particle/Cell Separation', International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics, 36, pp. 63 - 90, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10618562.2022.2053114

Li Q; Zhang H; Tan C; Lian B; García-Pacheco R; Taylor RA; Fletcher J; Le-Clech P; Ranasinghe B; Senevirathna T; Leslie G, 2022, 'Numerical and experimental investigation of a DC-powered RO system for Sri-Lankan villages', Renewable Energy, 182, pp. 772 - 786, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2021.10.056

Hashem Zadeh SM; Ghodrat M; Ayoubi Ayoubloo K; Sedaghatizadeh N; Taylor RA, 2022, 'Partial charging/discharging of bio-based latent heat energy storage enhanced with metal foam sheets', International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 130, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2021.105757

Sedighi M; Taylor RA; Padilla RV, 2021, 'Experimentally validated pore-scale numerical analysis for high-temperature (>700°C), high-efficiency (>90%) volumetric solar receivers', Energy Conversion and Management: X, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecmx.2021.100127

Wei J; Taylor RA; Qiu L; Kasaeian A; Mahian O, 2021, 'Preface', Energy, 235, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2021.121330

Motamedi M; Rafeie M; Ebrahimnia Bajestan E; Taylor RA, 2021, 'Mitigating the losses in nanofluid-based direct solar absorption receivers', Renewable Energy, 178, pp. 1174 - 1186, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2021.06.138

Omar A; Saldivia D; Li Q; Barraza R; Taylor RA, 2021, 'Techno-economic optimization of coupling a cascaded MED system to a CSP-sCO2 power plant', Energy Conversion and Management, 247, pp. 1 - 38, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2021.114725

Kim YC; Van Dang B; Taylor R; Barber T, 2021, 'Controlled generation of single microbubbles', Experiments in Fluids, 62, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00348-021-03324-2

Saldivia D; Bilbao J; Taylor RA, 2021, 'Optical analysis and optimization of a beam-down receiver for advanced cycle concentrating solar thermal plants', Applied Thermal Engineering, 197, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2021.117405

Sedighi M; Vasquez Padilla R; Taylor RA, 2021, 'Efficiency limits of high-temperature transparent packed-bed solar receivers', Energy Conversion and Management, 241, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2021.114257

Mahian O; Bellos E; Markides CN; Taylor RA; Alagumalai A; Yang L; Qin C; Lee BJ; Ahmadi G; Safaei MR; Wongwises S, 2021, 'Recent advances in using nanofluids in renewable energy systems and the environmental implications of their uptake', Nano Energy, 86, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2021.106069

Yazdanifard F; Ameri M; Taylor R, 2021, 'Parametric investigation of a nanofluid-NEPCM based spectral splitting photovoltaic/thermal system', Energy Conversion and Management, 240, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2021.114232

Ali MT; Le-Clech P; Taylor RA, 2021, 'Assessment of physicochemical performance of draw compounds for desalination using multi-criteria analysis', Desalination, 507, pp. 114859, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2020.114859

Habibollahzade A; Fakhari I; Mohsenian S; Aberoumand H; Taylor RA, 2021, 'Multi-objective grey wolf optimization of solar chimneys based on an improved model incorporating a wind turbine power curve', Energy Conversion and Management, 239, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2021.114231

Sarrafha H; Kasaeian A; Jahangir MH; Taylor RA, 2021, 'Transient thermal response of multi-walled carbon nanotube phase change materials in building walls', Energy, 224, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2021.120120

García-Pacheco R; Li Q; Comas J; Taylor RA; Le-Clech P, 2021, 'Novel housing designs for nanofiltration and ultrafiltration gravity-driven recycled membrane-based systems', Science of the Total Environment, 767, pp. 144181, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144181

Li Q; Zhuo Y; Shanks K; Taylor RA; Conneely B; Tan A; Shen Y; Scott J, 2021, 'A winged solar biomass reactor for producing 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (5-HMF)', Solar Energy, 218, pp. 455 - 468, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2021.03.001

Omar A; Li Q; Nashed A; Guan J; Dai P; Taylor RA, 2021, 'Experimental and numerical investigation of a new hollow fiber-based multi-effect vacuum membrane distillation design', Desalination, 501, pp. 114908, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2020.114908

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