Active solar collectors and their applications
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Active solar collectors and their applications
Oxford University Press, 1985
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Description
Provides a survey of solar geometry and meteorological data, the optics of various kinds of solar collectors, the mechanics of heat transfer, and private elements of system deign, optimization, and economic analysis. Also discussed are testing, methods and materials, and tracking and nontracking collectors.
Table of Contents
1: Survey of Solar Equipment and Applications
2: Solar Geometry
3: Insolation Data and Models
4: Collector Efficiency and Collector Testing
5: Fundamentals of Optics for Solar Collectors
6: Optics of Nontracking Collectors
7: Tracking Concentrator Types
8: Optical Analysis and Optimization of Parabolic Reflectors
9: Heat Transfer in Solar Collectors
10: Heat Transfer Factors
11: System Models
12: Applications
13: Practical Considerations
14: Economic Analysis
15: System Optimization
Appendix A. Nomenclature
Appendix B. Units
Appendix C. Properties of Materials
Appendix D. Meteorological Data
Appendix E. Circumsolar Data
Index
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