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ReviewMicromachines2022

Solar Energy-Based Future Perspective for Organic Rankine Cycle Applications.

Raúl Alejandro Martínez-Sánchez, Juvenal Rodriguez-Resendiz, José Manuel Álvarez-Alvarado, Idalberto Macías-Socarrás

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Review in Micromachines, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Raúl Alejandro Martínez-SánchezFacultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Querétaro 76010, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0003-0326-0847
Juvenal Rodriguez-ResendizFacultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Querétaro 76010, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0001-8598-5600
José Manuel Álvarez-AlvaradoFacultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Querétaro 76010, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0002-1304-6791
Idalberto Macías-SocarrásFacultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Departamento de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Estatal de la Península de Santa Elena, La Libertad 240204, Santa Elena, Ecuador.ORCID 0000-0003-3512-7098

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article explores the patents of solar energy technologies in the organic Rankine cycle (ORC) applications. The conversion of low-quality thermal energy into electricity is one of the main characteristics of an ORC, making efficient and viable technologies available today. However, only a few and outdated articles that analyze patents that use solar energy technologies in ORC applications exist. This leads to a lack of updated information regarding the number of published patents, International Patent Classification (IPC) codes associated with them, technology life cycle status, and the most relevant patented developments. Thus, this article conducts a current investigation of patents published between January 2010 and May 2022 using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) methodology and keywords. One thousand two hundred ninety-nine patents were obtained as part of the study and classified in F and Y groups of the IPC. The time-lapse analyzed was between January 2010 and May 2022. In 2014 and 2015, a peak of published patents was observed. China (CN) was the country that published the most significant number of patents worldwide. However, the European Patent Office (EP), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WO), and the United States (US) publish the patents with the highest number of patent citations. Furthermore, the possible trend regarding the development of patents for each technology is presented. A high-performance theoretical ORC plant based on the patent information analyzed by this article is introduced. Finally, exploration of IPC revealed 17 codes related to solar energy technologies in ORC applications not indexed in the main search.

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linear fresnel reflectororganic Rankine cycleparabolic dishparabolic troughphotovoltaic cellsolar energysolar tower

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PMID35744557
PMCPMC9229355

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