The aim of the quarterly journal Archives of Thermodynamics is to disseminate knowledge between scientists and engineers worldwide and to provide a forum for original research conducted in the field of thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid flow, combustion and energy conversion in various aspects of thermal sciences, mechanical and power engineering. Besides original research papers, review articles are also welcome. The journal scope of interest encompasses in particular, but is not limited to: Appears since 1980, four issues per year. Publication funding of this journal is provided by resources of the Polish Academy of Sciences and The Szewalski Institute of the Fluid-Flow Machinery of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Scoring assigned by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education: 70 points IMPACT FACTOR 2023: 0.8 CiteScore metrics from Scopus, CiteScore 2023: 1.8 SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) 2023: 0.25 Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) 2023: 0.395 H-index: 17 Overall Rank/Ranking: 17629
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Photovoltaic cells have been used for a long time to supply the electrical devices of small power in areas without access to the electricity networks (or other sources of electric energy). The ecological aspect of the use of the renewable energy sources, together with the technology development and increasingly lower costs of production the photovoltaic cells, cause the increase of their application. The solar power plants are built in several places in the world, not necessarily in the areas of high light intensity. Nowadays, such developments mostly depend on the wealth of a particular country. The largest photovoltaic power stations have power of a several dozen of MW. The major disadvantage of the photovoltaic cells is that the energy production is possible only during the day. This causes a necessity of energy accumulation in large photovoltaic systems. One possibility of storing large amounts of energy gives a hydrogen fuel, generated in the electrolysers powered directly from photovoltaic cells. Hydrogen, stored in pressure tanks or in tanks with synthetic porous materials, can be again used to produce electricity in fuel cells. This paper introduces selected issues and test results associated with the use of photovoltaic cells to power the hydrogen generators. The possible connections of photovoltaic modules integrated with electrolysers were analyzed. In this article the results of the electricity daily production by polycrystalline photovoltaic cells, collected in the course of the entire year were also presented.
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[2] Zhou, Y., Bi, H., & Wang, H. (2023). Influence of the primary components of the high-speed train on fire heat release rate. Archives of Thermodynamics, 44(1), 37–61.
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A. Bejan, Duke University, Durham, USA
A. C. Benim, Duesseldorf University of Applied Sciences, Germany
W. Blasiak, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
G. P. Celata, ENEA, Rome, Italy
L.M. Cheng, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
M. Colaco, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
J. M. Delhaye, CEA, Grenoble, France
M. Giot, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
K. Hooman, University of Queensland, Australia
D. Jackson, University of Manchester, UK
D.F. Li, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China
K. Kuwagi, Okayama University of Science, Japan
J. P. Meyer, University of Pretoria, South Africa
S. Michaelides, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth Texas, USA
M. Moran, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA
W. Muschik, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
I. Müller, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
H. Nakayama, Japanese Atomic Energy Agency, Japan
S. Nizetic, University of Split, Croatia
H. Orlande, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
M. Podowski, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA
A. Rusanov, Institute for Mechanical Engineering Problems NAS, Kharkiv, Ukraine
M. R. von Spakovsky, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA
A. Vallati, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
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