Solar energy conversion requires a different mind-set from traditional energy engineering in order to assess distribution, scales of use, systems design, predictive economic models for fluctuating solar resources, and planning to address transient cycles and social adoption. Solar Energy Conversion Systems 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 approach permits different levels of access for the emerging broad audience of scientists, engineers, architects, planners, and economists. Traditional texts in solar energy engineering have often emerged from mechanical or chemical engineering fields. Instead, Solar Energy Conversion Systems approaches solar energy conversion from the perspectives of integrative design, environmental technology, sustainability science, and materials science in the wake of amazing new thin films, polymers, and glasses developed by the optoelectronics and semiconductor industries. This is a new solar text for the new generation of green job designers and developers. It's highlighted with vignettes that break down solar conversion into useful stories and provides common points of reference, as well as techniques, for effective estimation of evolving technologies.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2. Context and Philosophy of Design 3. Laws of Light 4. Physics of Light, Heat, Work, and Photoconversion 5. Meteorology: The Many Facets of the Sky 6. Sun-Earth Geometry 7. Applying the Angles to Shadows 8. Measure and Estimation of the Solar Resource 9. Solar Energy Economics 10. Solar Project Finance 11. The Sun As Commons 12. Systems Logic of Devices: Patterns 13. Systems Logic of Devices: Optocalorics 14. Systems Logic of Devices: Optoelectronics 15. Concentration-The Pattern to Manipulate Light 16. Project Design
Appendix A: Energy Conversion Systems B: Numeracy and Units in Solar Energy
Authors
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. 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
