Solar Energy Engineering
Processes and Systems#

Soteris A. Kalogirou#

The book presents comprehensive coverage of solar energy’s increasing importance in the drive to achieve energy independence and climate balance.

KEY FEATURES

• Written by one of the world’s most renowned experts in solar energy with over thirty years of experience in renewable and solar energy.
• Features a new companion site with study questions and exercises, problem-solving files, formulas and teaching support materials.
• Provides updated chapters, including new sections on current state of renewables in the world, PV-powered solar heating/cooling, membrane desalination, assignments based on TRNSYS demo and System Advisory Model (SAM), assignments for collector design, system performance and economic analysis, new appendix tables with new fluid properties, an appendix describing Excel function goal seek and solver for problems requiring iteration, and an appendix describing SAM.
• Packed with reference tables and schematic diagrams for the most used systems.

DESCRIPTION

Solar power continues to be the most abundant of all renewable resources, making its impact ever more crucial to achieving energy security and sustainability. This revised and enhanced Third Edition of Solar Energy Engineering: Processes and Systems includes updated chapters and extended resources to assist the research and teaching of solar energy engineering. This best-selling title now comes with a companion site with additional materials for teaching, a manual of problems with solutions, files to assist with problem solving, and more. The book continues to cover advances in solar collectors, solar water heating, solar space heating and cooling, industrial process heat, solar desalination, photovoltaic technology, solar thermal power systems, and modeling of solar energy systems and wind energy systems. As solar energy’s vast environmental and socioeconomic benefits are broadly recognized, the Third Edition of Solar Energy Engineering: Processes and Systems provides students, teachers, and professionals with the basic principles and applications of solar energy systems and processes to understand how to operate and design solar systems.

Publication date: Dec 2023
ISBN: 9780323993500
Publisher: AP

About the author#

Soteris Kalogirou is a Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Material Sciences, at Cyprus University of Technology. He is also Chair Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology, China and Honorary Foreign Faculty Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India. He is a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, Founding Member of the Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts and Member of Academia Europaea. For more than 35 years, he has been actively involved in research into solar energy. He has published many books and papers in scientific journals, and is Editor-in-Chief of Renewable Energy and Honorary Editor of Energy, as well as an Editorial Board Member of 20 journals.