Solar Engineering of Thermal Processes

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The Second Edition of this highly successful and comprehensive volume has been updated to reflect the numerous scientific and technological advances of the past decade. The material has been expanded and reorganized into three separate sections describing the fundamentals, application, and design of solar thermal engineering processes. The first section details the basic concepts of solar thermal energy processes, with new material on the latest value of solar constant and extraterrestrial spectral distribution; new sections on shading, anisotropic sky models, and utilizability radiation statistics. Updated information on angular dependence of transmittanceabsorptance product, a revised treatment of concentrators, a new chapter on solar process loads, and a new section on collector arrays are included. In the second section, applications for water heating, active and passive building heating, cooling, industrial operations, power generation, solar ponds, and evaporative processes... Tovább

Fülszöveg

The Second Edition of this highly successful and comprehensive volume has been updated to reflect the numerous scientific and technological advances of the past decade. The material has been expanded and reorganized into three separate sections describing the fundamentals, application, and design of solar thermal engineering processes. The first section details the basic concepts of solar thermal energy processes, with new material on the latest value of solar constant and extraterrestrial spectral distribution; new sections on shading, anisotropic sky models, and utilizability radiation statistics. Updated information on angular dependence of transmittanceabsorptance product, a revised treatment of concentrators, a new chapter on solar process loads, and a new section on collector arrays are included. In the second section, applications for water heating, active and passive building heating, cooling, industrial operations, power generation, solar ponds, and evaporative processes are discussed. Updated descriptions of a variety of solar thermal systems, new information on cooling, and a more extensive treatment of solar ponds complete this section. The final section offers a practical look at the thermal design of active and passive systems by simulation, correlation, and utilizability methods that is essential to predicting long-term performance and estimation of costs. Presentations of the originál /-chart design method, and a comprehensive treatment of utilizability design methods and their application, are included. New chapters address estimation of passive and hybrid system performance by SLR/SSF and utilizability methods and present a unique treatment of photovoltaic systems for the conversion of solar to electrical energy New methods for processing data, an extensive meteorological data base, comprehensive reference lists for each (continued on back flap) Vissza