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  title info:
    title: Harnessing Solar Heat
  name:
    name part: Norton, Brian.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVII, 258 p. 193 illus., 7 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Systems engineered by man to harness solar heat in a controlled manner now include a diverse range of technologies each serving distinctive needs in particular climate contexts. This text covers the breadth of solar energy technologies for the conversion of solar energy to provide heat, either as the directly-used output or as an intermediary to other uses such as power generation or cooling. It is a wholly updated, extended and revised version of “Solar Energy Thermal Technology” first published in 1992. The text draws on the own author’s research and that of numerous colleagues and collaborators at Cranfield University, University of Ulster, Dublin Institute of Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and University of Nigeria. The initial chapters deal with relevant fundamental aspects of solar energy meteorology, radiative heat transfer, material properties and energy storage. Solar energy collectors are discussed in detail before a set of chapters deal with each of the full range of applications. The early chapters consider: the solar energy resource, its distribution in geographical, spectral, skyward geometrical and temporal domains; the physics of solar energy absorption, transmission and loss at surfaces; and techniques for storing collected solar energy. Specific collector sub-systems are then discussed in chapters seven to nine. For each system, practical issues are discussed and a proven analytical procedure for predicting performance described. Similarly analyses are presented in the concluding chapters on solar energy systems. These range from dryers to greenhouses to systems that render buildings solar energy systems in themselves and the associated design issues. The context for any use of solar energy is the prevailing climate. This text, being global in scope, definates the most appropriate regions for particular technologies and applications. It is a research-orientated academic work citing publications on the peer-reviewed literature cov…
  table of contents: Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 The Solar Energy Resource -- Chapter 3 Optics and Heat Transfer in Solar Collectors -- Chapter 4 Solar Energy Storage -- Chapter 5 Flat-Plate and Evacuated tube Collectors -- Chapter 6 Use of heat from, and thermal management of, photovoltaics -- Chapter 7 Solar thermal power generation and industrial process heat -- Chapter 8 Solar Water Heating and Combisystems -- Chapter 9 Solar Drying -- Chapter 10 Solar Cooling, Refrigeration and Desalination -- Chapter 11 Greenhouses -- Chapter 12 Passive and Hybrid Solar Design of Buildings -- References -- Subject Index.
  note: by Brian Norton.
  subject:
    topic: Energy
  subject:
    topic: Renewable energy resources
  subject:
    topic: Energy systems
  subject:
    topic: Electric power production
  subject:
    topic: Building construction
  subject:
    topic: Renewable energy sources
  subject:
    topic: Alternate energy sources
  subject:
    topic: Green energy industries
  subject:
    topic: Energy
  subject:
    topic: Energy Systems
  subject:
    topic: Renewable and Green Energy
  subject:
    topic: Renewable and Green Energy
  subject:
    topic: Energy Technology
  subject:
    topic: Building Physics, HVAC
  classification: TK1001-1841
  classification: 621.042
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      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Lecture Notes in Energy, 18
  identifier: 9789400772755
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7275-5
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    record creation date: 131011
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