Solar Energy Conversion Systems

✍ Scribed by Jeffrey R. S. Brownson (Auth.)

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 450
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Solar energy conversion requires a different mind-set from traditional energy engineering in order to assess distribution, scales of use, systems design, predictive economic models for fluctuating solar resources, and planning to address transient cycles and social adoption. Solar Energy Conversion Systems examines solar energy conversion as an integrative design process, applying systems thinking methods to a solid knowledge base for creators of solar energy systems. This approach permits different levels of access for the emerging broad audience of scientists, engineers, architects, planners, and economists. Traditional texts in solar energy engineering have often emerged from mechanical or chemical engineering fields. Instead, Solar Energy Conversion Systems approaches solar energy conversion from the perspectives of integrative design, environmental technology, sustainability science, and materials science in the wake of amazing new thin films, polymers, and glasses developed by the optoelectronics and semiconductor industries. This is a new solar text for the new generation of green job designers and developers. It's highlighted with vignettes that break down solar conversion into useful stories and provides common points of reference, as well as techniques, for effective estimation of evolving technologies.

. Contextualizes solar conversion for systems design and implementation in practical applications . Provides a complete understanding of solar power, from underlying science to essential economic outcomes . Analytical approach emphasizes systems simulations from measured irradiance and weather data rather than estimations from ''rules of thumb'' . Emphasizes integrative design and solar utility, where trans-disciplinary teams can develop sustainable solar solutions that increase client well-being and ecosystems services for a given locale.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Solar Energy Conversion Systems, Page i
Quote Page, Page ii
Solar Energy Conversion Systems, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Acknowledgements, Page xi
Chapter 01 - Introduction, Pages 1-12
Chapter 02 - Context and Philosophy of Design, Pages 13-40
Chapter 03 - Laws of Light, Pages 41-66
Chapter 04 - Physics of Light, Heat, Work, and Photoconversion, Pages 67-97
Chapter 05 - Meteorology: the Many Facets of the Sky, Pages 99-133
Chapter 06 - Sun-Earth Geometry, Pages 135-178
Chapter 07 - Applying the Angles to Shadows and Tracking, Pages 179-198
Chapter 08 - Measure and Estimation of the Solar Resource, Pages 199-235
Chapter 09 - Solar Energy Economics, Pages 237-262
Chapter 10 - Solar Project Finance, Pages 263-285
Chapter 11 - The Sun as Commons, Pages 287-305
Chapter 12 - Systems Logic of Devices: Patterns, Pages 307-318
Chapter 13 - Systems Logic of Devices: Optocalorics, Pages 319-347
Chapter 14 - Systems Logic of Devices: Optoelectronics, Pages 349-385
Chapter 15 - Concentration—The Pattern to Manipulate Light, Pages 387-401
Chapter 16 - Project Design, Pages 403-413
Appendix A - Energy Conversion Systems, Pages 415-425
Appendix B - Numeracy and Units in Solar Energy, Pages 427-439
Bibliography, Pages 441-447
Index, Pages 449-457

✦ Subjects

Топливно-энергетический комплекс;Гелиоэнергетика;