Solar Energy: Renewable Energy and the Environment

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CRC Press, 18.08.2009 - 382 Seiten
Drawing on the authors' extensive research and project implementation around the globe, Solar Energy: Renewable Energy and the Environment covers solar energy resources, thermal and photovoltaic systems, and the economics involved in using solar energy. It provides background theory on solar energy as well as useful technical information for implem
 

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Chapter 1 Introduction to Solar Energy
1
Chapter 2 Solar Resource
7
Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer
55
Chapter 4 Solar Thermal Systems and Applications
73
Chapter 5 Photovoltaic Cells
115
Chapter 6 Photovoltaic Conversion Systems
135
Chapter 7 Photovoltaic System Sizing and Design
153
Chapter 8 Photovoltaic PV Applications
173
Chapter 10 Institutional Issues
249
Chapter 11 Energy Storage
265
Solar Energy Glossary
295
World Insolation Data
307
Friction Loss Factors
327
Present Value Factors
331
Table of Approximate PV PumpingSystem Costs
335
Back cover
337

Chapter 9 Economics
231
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Solar Energy: Renewable Energy and the Environment
Robert Foster,Majid Ghassemi,Alma Cota
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Autoren-Profil (2009)

Robert Foster is a program manager in the College of Engineering at the Southwest Region Solar Experiment Station and the Institute for Energy and the Environment at New Mexico State University. He is currently on assignment in Kabul as the deputy chief of party for the U.S. Agency for International Development's Afghanistan Water, Agriculture, and Technology Transfer Program.

Majid Ghassemi is a visiting research scientist in the Institute for Engineering Research and Applications at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (NM Tech), where he is currently conducting research on energy-efficient wall panels for the U.S. Department of Energy.

Alma Cota is a chemistry professor and solar researcher at the Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez. She previously worked as a photovoltaic research assistant in the Southwest Region Solar Experiment Station at New Mexico State University.

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TitelSolar Energy: Renewable Energy and the Environment
AutorenRobert Foster, Majid Ghassemi, Alma Cota
Ausgabeillustriert
VerlagCRC Press, 2009
ISBN1420075675, 9781420075670
Länge382 Seiten
  
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