Solar Energy Conversion Systems

Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey R. S. Brownson, Associate Professor of Energy & Mineral Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering; Solar Option Lead: iMPS Renewable Energy & Sustainability Systems, The Pennsylvania State University Klappentext Provides a complete understanding of solar power, from underlying science to essential economic outcomes. Zusammenfassung 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 title contextualizes solar conversion for systems design and implementation in practical applications. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction2. Context and Philosophy of Design3. Laws of Light4. Physics of Light, Heat, Work, and Photoconversion5. Meteorology: The Many Facets of the Sky6. Sun-Earth Geometry7. Applying the Angles to Shadows8. Measure and Estimation of the Solar Resource9. Solar Energy Economics10. Solar Project Finance 11. The Sun As Commons12. Systems Logic of Devices: Patterns13. Systems Logic of Devices: Optocalorics14. Systems Logic of Devices: Optoelectronics15. Concentration-The Pattern to Manipulate Light16. Project Design AppendixA: Energy Conversion SystemsB: Numeracy and Units in Solar Energy

Autorentext
Jeffrey R. S. Brownson, Associate Professor of Energy & Mineral Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering; Solar Option Lead: iMPS Renewable Energy & Sustainability Systems, The Pennsylvania State University

Klappentext

Provides a complete understanding of solar power, from underlying science to essential economic outcomes.

Zusammenfassung
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 title contextualizes solar conversion for systems design and implementation in practical applications.

Inhalt

1. Introduction2. Context and Philosophy of Design3. Laws of Light4. Physics of Light, Heat, Work, and Photoconversion5. Meteorology: The Many Facets of the Sky6. Sun-Earth Geometry7. Applying the Angles to Shadows8. Measure and Estimation of the Solar Resource9. Solar Energy Economics10. Solar Project Finance 11. The Sun As Commons12. Systems Logic of Devices: Patterns13. Systems Logic of Devices: Optocalorics14. Systems Logic of Devices: Optoelectronics15. Concentration-The Pattern to Manipulate Light16. Project Design

   AppendixA: Energy Conversion SystemsB: Numeracy and Units in Solar Energy