Name: Solar Energy Engineering
Price: 135 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780323993500

The 3rd Edition of Solar Energy Engineering: Processes and Systems, authored by Soteris A Kalogirou, delivers comprehensive instruction on solar energy conversion and system implementation. Designed primarily for undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate engineering students, this textbook connects basic physical principles to applied design techniques across multiple solar technologies.

The main thermal coverage spans basic solar collectors, active solar water heating, and integrated solar space heating and cooling. Further thematic sections examine industrial process heat applications together with solar desalination infrastructure. The text balances these thermal topics with detailed analytical treatments of photovoltaic technology and solar thermal power systems.

This updated edition incorporates refined coverage of building-integrated photovoltaics alongside performance prediction for thermosiphonic systems. The structured chapters fit semester-length academic courses while giving practicing engineers and technical specialists in solar energy companies a dependable reference for thermal and electrical project design.

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Environmental Characteristics
Chapter 3: Solar Energy Collectors
Chapter 4: Performance of Solar Collectors
Chapter 5: Solar Water-Heating Systems
Chapter 6: Solar Space Heating and Cooling
Chapter 7: Industrial Process Heat, Chemistry Applications, and Solar Dryers
Chapter 8: Solar Desalination Systems
Chapter 9: Photovoltaic Systems
Chapter 10: Solar Thermal Power Systems
Chapter 11: Designing and Modeling Solar Energy Systems
Chapter 12: Solar Economic Analysis
Chapter 13: Hybrid Energy Systems
Chapter Appendix: Appendix
- • 1. Nomenclature
- • 2. Definitions
- • 3. Sun Diagrams
- • 4. Terrestrial Spectral Irradiance
- • 5. Thermo-physical Properties of Materials
- • 6. Equations for the Curves of Figures 3.38 to 3.40
- • 7. Meteorological Data
- • 8. Present Worth Factors