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Advances in Solar Heating and Cooling
1st Edition - May 25, 2016
Editors: Ruzhu Wang, Tianshu Ge
Hardback ISBN:9780081003015
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Advances in Solar Heating and Cooling presents new information on the growing concerns about climate change, the security of energy supplies, and the ongoing interest in replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy sources.
The amount of energy used for heating and cooling is very significant, estimated, for example, as half of final energy consumption in Europe. Solar thermal installations have the potential to meet a large proportion of the heating and cooling needs of both buildings and industry and the number of solar thermal installations is increasing rapidly. This book provides an authoritative review of the latest research in solar heating and cooling technologies and applications.
Provides researchers in academia and industry with an authoritative overview of heating and cooling for buildings and industry in one convenient volume
Part III, ‘Solar cooling technologies’ is contributed by authors from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, which is a world-leader in this area
Covers advanced applications from zero-energy buildings, through industrial process heat to district heating and cooling
Research and development professionals and engineers in the solar heating and cooling industries as well as postgraduate researchers in academia working on solar heating and cooling.
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Part One. Introduction
1. Introduction to solar heating and cooling systems
1.1. Background
1.2. Overview of solar heating and cooling systems
1.3. Technology roadmap
2. Resource assessment and site selection for solar heating and cooling systems
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Definition of solar resources
2.3. Relationship between solar resources and solar collectors
2.4. Measuring and modeling the solar resource
2.5. Solar resource data sets important to siting and sizing solar heating and cooling (SHC) technologies
2.6. Sources of solar resource information
2.7. Summary
3. Energy efficiency and environmental impact of solar heating and cooling systems
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Energy use in the built environment
3.3. Worldwide market penetration of solar heating and cooling systems
3.4. Overview of technologies used for solar heating and cooling systems and their efficiency
3.5. Environmental impact of solar heating and cooling systems
3.6. Conclusions
Part Two. Solar heating systems
4. Nontracking solar collection technologies for solar heating and cooling systems
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Flat plate collectors
4.3. Flat plate collectors with diffuse reflectors
4.4. Compound parabolic collectors
4.5. Reverse flat plate collectors
4.6. Evacuated tube collectors
4.7. Conclusions
Glossary
5. Tracking solar collection technologies for solar heating and cooling systems
5.1. Definition of solar tracking technology
5.2. Classification and features
5.3. Control system
5.4. Practical examples
6. Passive solar space heating
6.1. Introduction
6.2. Sun and built forms
6.3. Passive solar heating systems materials and components
6.4. Passive solar heating systems technologies
6.5. Economics and energy efficiency of passive solar heating systems
6.6. Passive solar heating systems at high latitudes: a case study
6.7. Conclusions and future trends
7. Innovations in passive solar water heating systems
7.1. Introduction
7.2. Flat plate collector–thermosiphon
7.3. Evacuated tube collector
7.4. Integrated collector storage systems and compound parabolic collectors
7.5. Hybrid photovoltaic/thermal collector
7.6. Conclusion and future trends
Nomenclature
Subscripts
Greek letters
8. Active solar space heating
8.1. Background on active space heating
8.2. Operation of active solar space heating systems
8.3. Solar hybrid systems
8.4. Energy efficiency of active solar space heating
9. Active solar water heating systems
9.1. History
9.2. Overview of technologies for active solar water heating systems
9.3. Economics and energy efficiency of active solar water heating systems
9.4. Applications of active solar water heating systems: case study
9.5. Conclusions and future trends
Part Three. Solar cooling technologies
10. Photovoltaic-powered solar cooling systems
10.1. Introduction
10.2. Performance index
10.3. Photovoltaic-powered refrigeration system
10.4. Photovoltaic-powered air-conditioning system
10.5. Conclusions
11. Solar-powered absorption cooling systems
11.1. Overview
11.2. Low-temperature solar power-driven systems
11.3. Medium-temperature solar power-driven systems
11.4. Drawbacks of solar absorption cooling systems and improvement
11.5. Economic performance and adaptability analysis
11.6. Summary
12. Solar-powered adsorption cooling systems
12.1. Introduction
12.2. Low-temperature solar-powered adsorption systems
12.3. Medium-temperature solar-powered adsorption systems
12.4. Summary
13. Review of solar-powered desiccant cooling systems
13.1. Solar-powered rotary desiccant wheel cooling system
13.2. Solar-powered liquid desiccant systems
13.3. Summary
14. Other types of solar-powered cooling systems
14.1. Introduction
14.2. Other types of solar-powered cooling systems
14.3. Conclusion
Part Four. Heat storage for solar heating and coolingapplications
15. Sensible heat storage for solar heating and cooling systems
15.1. Introduction
15.2. Storage materials
15.3. Classification of sensible thermal energy storage systems
15.4. Working principle
15.5. Sensible thermal storage technologies
15.6. Thermal performance evaluations
Nomenclature and symbols
16. Latent heat storage for solar heating and cooling systems
16.1. Introduction
16.2. Temperature level for latent heat storage design
16.3. Storage media
16.4. Main materials for storage (Pumpable slurries and PCM)
16.5. Examples
16.6. Conclusion
List of symbols
Greek symbols
Subscripts
Abbreviations
17. Chemisorption heat storage for solar low-energy buildings
17.1. Introduction
17.2. Basics of chemisorption
17.3. Important considerations concerning application to buildings
17.4. Chemical heat storage materials
17.5. Storage reactor developments
17.6. Conclusions
List of symbols
Greek letters
Subscripts
Superscript
18. Thermochemical heat storage for solar heating and cooling systems
18.1. Introduction
18.2. Thermochemical heat storage
18.3. Summary and perspective
Part Five. Advanced applications of solar heatingand cooling systems
19. Combined photovoltaic/thermal technology for building applications
19.1. Introduction
19.2. Flat plate photovoltaic/thermal systems and equipment for building applications
19.3. Advanced system design and performance analysis
19.4. Final remarks
20. Future trends for solar energy use in nearly zero energy buildings
20.1. Renewables in the built environment
20.2. Solar energy potential for thermal energy production in the built environment
20.3. New trends in increasing the use of solar energy conversion systems integrated in nearly zero energy buildings
20.4. Instead of conclusions
Index
No. of pages: 596
Language: English
Published: May 25, 2016
Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
Hardback ISBN: 9780081003015
eBook ISBN: 9780081003022
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Ruzhu Wang
Professor Ruzhu Wang has been Director of the Institute of Refrigeration and Cryogenics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University since 1993 and is a leading scientist in the area of adsorption refrigeration research and solar cooling. In recent years he has also had a deep involvement in green building energy systems. Prof. Wang has published more than 300 journal papers, about 200 of which are in international journals, and has written 5 books on refrigeration technologies. He was elected as one of the top one hundred outstanding professors in China Universities by MOE China in 2007. Prof. Wang was appointed deputy Editor-in-Chief for the international journal Energy and Associate editor of Solar Energy. In the last ten years, he has been invited to give plenary lectures in international conferences more than 10 times.
Affiliations and expertise
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
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Tianshu Ge
Tianshu Ge is a Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.