Advances in Solar Energy
by Goswami, D. YogiFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-11-30
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary
The Advances in Solar Energy series offers state-of-the-art information on all primary renewable energy technologies, including solar, wind and biomass, bringing together invited contributions from the foremost international experts in renewable energy.
Table of Contents
| About the Authors | p. xiii |
| Anthropogenic Global Warming: Evidence, Predictions and Consequences | p. 1 |
| Introduction | p. 2 |
| Fundamentals of Climate Change | p. 4 |
| Empirical Evidences of Anthropogenic Climate Change | p. 7 |
| Reliability of Climate Models as Tools for Future Climate Predictions | p. 13 |
| What Can We Learn From Past Climate Changes | p. 16 |
| Prediction of Future Climate Change | p. 19 |
| Summary and Conclusions | p. 28 |
| References | p. 29 |
| Beyond Oil: A Comparison of Projections of PV Generation and European and U.S. Domestic Oil Production | p. 35 |
| Introduction | p. 36 |
| Forecasting PV Electricity Generation | p. 37 |
| Reasonableness of the Forecasts | p. 47 |
| Current and Competitive PV Prices | p. 49 |
| Forecasting Oil Production | p. 52 |
| Comparison of the Energy Values of Future Oil Production and PV Systems | p. 54 |
| The Role of Policy in PV's Future | p. 58 |
| From Forecast to Policy | p. 62 |
| References | p. 63 |
| Recent Advances in Solar Photovoltaic Technology and its New Roles to Contribute to Environmental Issues | p. 71 |
| Introduction: Evolution of Industrial Development with the Energy Revolution | p. 72 |
| 3E-Trilemma and Clean Energy Developments | p. 74 |
| High Conversion Efficiency Research and Development Efforts and Their Recent Achievements | p. 78 |
| Accelerated Promotion of Photovoltaic Technology in Japan | p. 85 |
| Future Prospects and Roadmap for Solar Photovoltaics | p. 88 |
| References | p. 94 |
| III-V Compound Multi-junction and Concentrator Solar Cells | p. 97 |
| Introduction | p. 98 |
| Historical Background | p. 99 |
| Key Technologies for High-efficiency Cells | p. 100 |
| High-efficiency Multi-junction Cells | p. 105 |
| More Recent Approaches for High-efficiency MJ Solar Cells | p. 105 |
| High-efficiency Concentrator MJ Solar Cells | p. 111 |
| High-efficiency and Low-cost Concentrator MJ Cell Modules | p. 113 |
| High-efficiency and Radiation-resistant Space Solar Cells | p. 115 |
| Future Prospects | p. 123 |
| Summary | p. 124 |
| Acknowledgements | p. 126 |
| References | p. 126 |
| Progress of Highly Reliable Crystalline Si Solar Devices and Materials | p. 129 |
| Introduction | p. 130 |
| Reliability of Silicon Solar Modules During Exposure Testing | p. 131 |
| Solarization of Front Glass Sheets | p. 137 |
| Yellowing of Encapsulation Materials | p. 137 |
| Light-induced Degradation of Silicon Solar Cells | p. 138 |
| Suppression of Lifetime Degradation | p. 149 |
| Conclusion | p. 150 |
| Acknowledgements | p. 151 |
| References | p. 151 |
| Recent Advances in Parabolic Trough Solar Power Plant Technology | p. 155 |
| Introduction | p. 156 |
| Operating Experience of the SEGS Plants | p. 161 |
| Solar Collector Technology | p. 168 |
| Heat Transfer Fluids and Thermal Storage | p. 191 |
| Process Design Developments | p. 200 |
| Evaluating Trough Power Plant Economics | p. 205 |
| Cost Reduction of Future Parabolic Trough Electricity | p. 216 |
| Conclusion | p. 226 |
| Acknowledgements | p. 226 |
| Nomenclature | p. 226 |
| References | p. 227 |
| Solar Pond Technologies: A Review and Future Directions | p. 233 |
| Introduction | p. 234 |
| Solar Pond Advances in Australia | p. 235 |
| Solar Pond Advances in the USA | p. 248 |
| Review of International Solar-Pond Work | p. 265 |
| Current State of the Art and Future Directions | p. 277 |
| Acknowledgements | p. 282 |
| References | p. 282 |
| Passive Cooling of Buildings | p. 295 |
| Introduction | p. 296 |
| On the Cooling Needs of Buildings | p. 297 |
| Principles of Passive Cooling Techniques | p. 306 |
| Urban Microclimate and Its Impact on the Cooling Needs of Buildings | p. 311 |
| Technologies to Improve the Urban Microclimate | p. 316 |
| Recent Progress on Solar Control and Heat Protection of Buildings | p. 322 |
| Heat Amortization Techniques-Night Ventilation | p. 325 |
| Advances in Thermal Comfort Studies | p. 326 |
| Heat Dissipation Techniques | p. 327 |
| Conclusions | p. 332 |
| References | p. 333 |
| Renewable Solar Energy for Traveling: Air, Land, and Water | p. 345 |
| Introduction | p. 346 |
| The Special Challenge | p. 347 |
| Surface Movement on Land-In Still Air | p. 350 |
| Land Surface Vehicles in Wind | p. 355 |
| Flight | p. 356 |
| Movement On or Under Water | p. 366 |
| Other Techniques With Coupled Devices | p. 368 |
| The Future | p. 369 |
| References | p. 369 |
| Modeling Solar Hydrogen Fuel Cell Systems | p. 371 |
| Introduction | p. 372 |
| Hydrogen Energy Technology | p. 372 |
| System Description | p. 381 |
| System Modulation | p. 382 |
| System Simulation | p. 400 |
| Results | p. 408 |
| Summary and Conclusions | p. 416 |
| Acknowledgement | p. 416 |
| References | p. 417 |
| Renewable Energy For The Russian Economy | p. 423 |
| General Estimation of Conditions of Renewable Energy use in Russia | p. 424 |
| The Reasons Why Developed Countries are Actively Engaged in Using RE | p. 427 |
| Why is it Necessary to be Engaged in RE Promotion in Russia? | p. 428 |
| Opportunities in Russia | p. 429 |
| Renewable Energy Economics | p. 436 |
| Priority Measures Offered for Promotion of RE use in Russia | p. 438 |
| Russian Renewable Energy Technologies (Short Review) | p. 438 |
| Future Energy Technology | p. 448 |
| Solar Stationary Trough Concentrator Technologies For Stand-Alone and Large-Scale Application | p. 450 |
| Comparison of the Characteristics of Solar and Thermal Power Plants | p. 456 |
| Conclusion | p. 460 |
| References | p. 460 |
| An Innovative, High Temperature and Concentration Solar Optical System at the Turn of the 19th Century: The Pyreheliophoro | p. 465 |
| Introduction | p. 466 |
| The Pyreheliophoro | p. 468 |
| The St. Louis Fair of 1904 | p. 480 |
| Conclusion | p. 485 |
| Acknowledgements | p. 486 |
| References | p. 486 |
| Errata from Advances in Solar Energy, Volume 14, 2001 | p. 489 |
| Renewable Energy Technology Mix for Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Stabilisation by 2050 (in Chapter 10) | p. 490 |
| A scenario for fossil fuel replacement prepared by the authors showing how renewable energy sources could be allocated in a reasonable low demand future energy scenario | p. 491 |
| Variations in the annual delivery of major fuels and technologies using the assumed load pattern in Fig. 1 | p. 492 |
| The demand curve for Scenario B in which constant per capita demand is assumed as population increases | p. 492 |
| Development Strategies for Solar Thermal Electricity Generation (in Chapter 11) | p. 493 |
| Results of levelised CO[subscript 2] avoidance costs versus coal fuel cost for line focus STE technologies | p. 494 |
| Results of levelised CO[subscript 2] avoidance costs versus fossil fuel cost for solar/biomass line focus solar technologies and wind generation | p. 494 |
| Word Index | p. 495 |
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