Custom cover image
Custom cover image

Solar energy conversion systems / Jeffrey R. S. Brownson

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: Saint Louis : Elsevier Science & Technology, 2014Edition: Online-AusgDescription: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (471 p.))ISBN:
  • 0123973155
  • 9780123970213
  • 0123970210
  • 9781306135825
  • 1306135826
  • 9780123973153
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9780123970213 | Erscheint auch als: 9780123970213 Druck-Ausgabe | Erscheint auch als: Solar Energy Conversion Systems Druck-AusgabeDDC classification:
  • 621.47
LOC classification:
  • TJ810 TJ812.7
  • TJ812.7
  • TJ810
Online resources: Summary: 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.Summary: Intro -- Half Title -- Quote Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 01 Introduction -- Design Concept -- Instructional Approach -- Suggested Course Schedule with Text -- Communication of Units and a Standard Solar Language -- 02 Context and Philosophy of Design -- A Rationale and History for Design of SECS -- Systems and Patterns -- Systems Design -- The Ethics of Sustainability -- Ecosystem Services -- Limitations of the Goal -- Framework: Solar as Lighting Aid -- Framework: Solar Rights and Access -- Framework: Solar Power Entrepreneurs -- Framework: Solar Ecosystem Services -- Framework: Solar for Energy Independence -- Problems -- Recommended Additional Resources -- 03 Laws of Light -- Light is a Pumping System -- SECS and Light -- Light is Directional -- Light is Spectral -- Light Decreases with Distance -- Four Laws of Light -- Kirchoff's Law -- Wien's Displacement -- Planck's Law -- Stephan-Boltzmann Equation and Fractions of Radiation -- Problems -- Recommended Additional Reading -- 04 Physics of Light, Heat, Work, and Photoconversion -- Breakthrough: Not Light or Heat-Both -- It's in the History Books -- Light for a Caloric Response -- Materials in Energy Conversion Systems -- Selective Surfaces and Graybodies: Opaque -- Radiative Exchange for One Surface -- Diffuse Gray Surface Approximation: -- Radiative Exchange for Two Surfaces -- Reflectivity and Reflectance for Semi-transparent Materials -- Problems -- Recommended Additional Reading -- 05 Meteorology: the Many Facets of the Sky -- Air Masses -- The Sky as Multiple Climate Regimes -- No Sky Model -- Blackbody Accounting (no sky cover) -- A Change of Variables: 0-100 Round Numbers -- Blackbody+Graybody Accounting (no sky cover) -- Graybody Accounting with a Cover -- Graybody Accounting with a Cover and a Leaky Valve -- The Role of Clouds.PPN: PPN: 807197971Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-26-MYL | ZDB-30-PAD | ZDB-30-PQE
No physical items for this record
KIT – The University in the Helmholtz Association                         Home | Impressum | Datenschutz | Barrierefreiheit | KIT