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Solar energy : Fundamentals & applications

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Delhi Tata McGraw-Hill 2002Edition: Ist revDescription: xvii, 434pISBN:
  • 0074636316
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 621.47 GAR-S
Summary: Designed for the undergraduate / postgraduate students of Mechanical Engineering, the revised edition has many new additions to make this volume a comprehensive resource on the subject, Its practical approach and numerous examples make it useful to teachers and students and also to practising professionals and engineers. Key Features: Emphasising conceptual foundatations of the subject, the book details topics such as radiation flat-plate collectors, solar heating and concentrating collectors. Gives detailing of important applications such as Sloar Cookers, Solar Greenhouse, Heating of Buildings etc. Also covers topics such as solar Refrigeration and Air Conditioning, Solar Furnaces, Solar Thermo-mechanic Power Water Pump in depth. Table of Content: Chapter 1 Solar Radiation Chapter 2 Flat Plate Collectors Chapter 3 Solar Concentrating Collectors Chapter 4 Solar Water Heating Chapter 5 Solar Cookers Chapter 6 Solar Desalination Chapter 7 Solar Drying of Food Chapter 8 Passive Solar House Heating and Cooling Chapter 9 Solar Energy for Industrial Process Heat Chapter 10 Solar Heating of Buildings: Active Systems Chapter 11 Solar Greenhouses Chapter 12 Solar Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Chapter 13 Solar Furnaces Chapter 14 Solar Thermo-mechanical Power Chapter 15 Solar Powered Thermal Water Pump Chapter 16 Solar Thermal Energy Storage Chapter 17 Solar Photovoltaics Chapter 18 Economic Analysis Appendix: Heat Transfer Author Index Subject Index
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Designed for the undergraduate / postgraduate students of Mechanical Engineering, the revised edition has many new additions to make this volume a comprehensive resource on the subject, Its practical approach and numerous examples make it useful to teachers and students and also to practising professionals and engineers.
Key Features:

Emphasising conceptual foundatations of the subject, the book details topics such as radiation flat-plate collectors, solar heating and concentrating collectors.



Gives detailing of important applications such as Sloar Cookers, Solar Greenhouse, Heating of Buildings etc.



Also covers topics such as solar Refrigeration and Air Conditioning, Solar Furnaces, Solar Thermo-mechanic Power Water Pump in depth.

Table of Content:




Chapter 1 Solar Radiation


Chapter 2 Flat Plate Collectors


Chapter 3 Solar Concentrating Collectors


Chapter 4 Solar Water Heating


Chapter 5 Solar Cookers


Chapter 6 Solar Desalination


Chapter 7 Solar Drying of Food


Chapter 8 Passive Solar House Heating and Cooling


Chapter 9 Solar Energy for Industrial Process Heat


Chapter 10 Solar Heating of Buildings: Active Systems


Chapter 11 Solar Greenhouses


Chapter 12 Solar Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning


Chapter 13 Solar Furnaces


Chapter 14 Solar Thermo-mechanical Power


Chapter 15 Solar Powered Thermal Water Pump


Chapter 16 Solar Thermal Energy Storage


Chapter 17 Solar Photovoltaics


Chapter 18 Economic Analysis


Appendix: Heat Transfer


Author Index


Subject Index

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