Solar Energy Engineering : Processes and Systems.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kalogirou, Soteris A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Solar energy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (841 pages)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

San Diego : Elsevier Science & Technology, 2014.

Contents:

Front Cover

Solar Energy Engineering: Processes and Systems

Copyright

Contents

Preface

Preface to Second Edition

Chapter 1 - Introduction

1.1 General introduction to renewable energy technologies

1.2 Energy demand and renewable energy

1.3 Energy-related environmental problems

1.4 State of the climate

1.5 A brief history of solar energy

1.6 Other renewable energy systems

Exercise

References

Chapter 2 - Environmental Characteristics

2.1 Reckoning of time

2.2 Solar angles

2.3 Solar radiation

2.4 The solar resource

Exercises

Chapter 3 - Solar Energy Collectors

3.1 Stationary collectors

3.2 Sun-tracking concentrating collectors

3.3 Thermal analysis of flat-plate collectors

3.4 Thermal analysis of air collectors

3.5 Practical considerations for flat-plate collectors

3.6 Concentrating collectors

3.7 Second law analysis

Chapter 4 - Performance of Solar Collectors

4.1 Collector thermal efficiency

4.2 Collector incidence angle modifier

4.3 Concentrating collector acceptance angle

4.4 Collector time constant

4.5 Dynamic system test method

4.6 Efficiency parameters conversion

4.7 Assessment of uncertainty in solar collector testing

4.8 Collector test results and preliminary collector selection

4.9 Quality test methods

4.10 European standards

4.11 Data acquisition systems

Chapter 5 - Solar Water-Heating Systems

5.1 Passive systems

5.2 Active systems

5.3 Heat storage systems

5.4 Module and array design

5.5 Differential temperature controller

5.6 Hot water demand

5.7 Solar water heater performance evaluation

5.8 Simple system models

5.9 Practical considerations

Chapter 6 - Solar Space Heating and Cooling.

6.1 Thermal load estimation

6.2 Passive space-heating design

6.3 Solar space heating and cooling

6.4 Solar cooling

6.5 Solar cooling with absorption refrigeration

Chapter 7 - Industrial Process Heat, Chemistry Applications, and Solar Dryers

7.1 Industrial process heat: general design considerations

7.2 Solar steam generation systems

7.3 Solar chemistry applications

7.4 Solar dryers

7.5 Greenhouses

Chapter 8 - Solar Desalination Systems

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Desalination processes

8.3 Direct collection systems

8.4 Indirect collection systems

8.5 Review of renewable energy desalination systems

8.6 Process selection

Chapter 9 - Photovoltaic Systems

9.1 Semiconductors

9.2 Photovoltaic panels

9.3 Related equipment

9.4 Applications

9.5 Design of PV systems

9.6 Tilt and yield

9.7 Concentrating PV

9.8 Hybrid PV/T systems

Chapter 10 - Solar Thermal Power Systems

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Parabolic trough collector systems

10.3 Power tower systems

10.4 Dish systems

10.5 Thermal analysis of solar power plants

10.6 Solar updraft towers

10.7 Solar ponds

Chapter 11 - Designing and Modeling Solar Energy Systems

11.1 f-chart method and program

11.2 Utilizability method

11.3 The Φ¯, f-chart method

11.4 Unutilizability method

11.5 Modeling and simulation of solar energy systems

11.6 Artificial intelligence in solar energy systems

11.7 Limitations of simulations

Chapter 12 - Solar Economic Analysis

12.1 Life cycle analysis

12.2 Time value of money

12.3 Description of the life cycle analysis method

12.4 The P1, P2 method

12.5 Uncertainties in economic analysis

Assignment.

Exercises

Chapter 13 - Wind Energy Systems

13.1 Wind characteristics

13.2 One-dimensional model for wind turbines

13.3 Wind turbines

13.4 Economic issues

13.5 Wind-energy exploitation problems

Appendix 1 - Nomenclature

Appendix 2 - Definitions

Appendix 3 - Sun Diagrams

Reference

Appendix 4 - Terrestrial Spectral Irradiance

Appendix 5 - Thermo-physical Properties of Materials

Appendix 6 - Equations for the Curves of Figures 3.38 to 3.40

Appendix 7 - Meteorological Data

United States

Europe

Rest of the world

Appendix 8 - Present Worth Factors

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Kalogirou, Soteris A. Solar Energy Engineering

ISBN:

9780123972569

OCLC:

862608959