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Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conversion

Technologies, Applications and Environmental Impacts

  • 1st Edition - July 17, 2020
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Shiva Gorjian, Ashish Shukla
  • Language: English

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Description

Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conversion - Technologies, Applications and Environmental Impacts features comprehensive and up-to-date knowledge on the photovoltaic solar energy conversion technology and describes its different aspects in the context of most recent scientific and technological advances. It also provides an insight into future developments in this field by covering four distinct topics include "PV Cells and Modules", "Applications of PV Systems", "Life Cycle and Environmental Impacts" and "PV Market and Policies".

Key features

  • An up-to-date reference book on the advances of photovoltaic solar energy conversion technology
  • Describes different aspects of PV and PVT technologies in a comprehensive way
  • Provides information on design, development, and monitoring of PV systems
  • Covers applications of PV and PVT systems in the urban, industry, and agriculture sectors
  • Features new concepts, environmental impacts, market and policies of the PV technology

Readership

Engineers, practitioners in industry and researchers working on the advancement and application of solar photovoltaics

Table of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction 1

Shiva Gorjian, Hossein Ebadi

Chapter 2: Solar cell technologies 27

Geetam Richhariya, Anil Kumar, Samsher

Chapter 3: Solar PV module technologies 51

Nallapaneni Manoj Kumar, Shauhrat S. Chopra, Aline Kirsten Vidal de Oliveira, Hamsa Ahmed, Shima Vaezi, Uzoma Edward Madukanya, Juan M. Castanon

Chapter 4: Solar photovoltaic thermal (PVT) module technologies 79

Mahdi Shakouri, Hossein Ebadi, Shiva Gorjian

Chapter 5: Solar PV systems design and monitoring

Mohammadreza Aghaei, Nallapaneni Manoj Kumar, Aref Eskandari, Hamsa Ahmed, Aline Kirsten Vidal de Oliveira, Shauhrat S. Chopra

Chapter 6: On-farm applications of solar PV systems 147

Shiva Gorjian, Renu Singh, Ashish Shukla, Abdur Rehman Mazhar

Chapter 7: Applications of solar PV systems in agricultural automation and robotics

Shiva Gorjian, Saeid Minaei, Ladan MalehMirchegini, Max Trommsdorff, Redmond R. Shamshiri

Chapter 8: Applications of solar PV systems in desalination technologies

Shiva Gorjian, Barat Ghobadian, Hossein Ebadi, Faezeh Ketabchi, Saber Khanmohammadi

Chapter 9: Applications of solar PV systems in hydrogen production

Francesco Calise, Francesco Liberato Cappiello, Maria Vicidomini

Chapter 10: Solar PV power plants

Mohammadreza Aghaei, Aref Eskandari, Shima Vaezi, Shauhrat S. Chopra

Chapter 11: New concepts and applications of solar PV systems

Mohammadreza Aghaei, Hossein Ebadi, Aline Kirsten Vidal de Oliveira, Shima Vaezi, Aref Eskandari, Juan M. Castanon

Chapter 12: Life cycle assessment and environmental impacts of solar PV systems

Nallapaneni Manoj Kumar, Shauhrat S. Chopra, Pramod Rajput

Chapter 13: Solar PV market and policies

Hyun Jin Julie Yu, Patrice Geoffron

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: July 20, 2020
  • Language: English

About the editors

SG

Shiva Gorjian

Dr. Shiva Gorjian is an associate professor in the Department of Biosystems Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, and the Department of Renewable Energy, Faculty of Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, at Tarbiat Modares University (TMU), Tehran, Iran. She received her PhD in mechanics of biosystems engineering from TMU in 2014. She is the editor of the book Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conversion: Technologies, Applications, and Environmental Impacts (Elsevier, 2020). Her main research area is renewable energy applications in agriculture (AgroRenewables). She has been the lead guest editor of a special issue on the same theme in the Journal of Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments (Elsevier) in 2021. Dr. Gorjian's research interests include solar photovoltaics, solar desalination technologies, hybrid PVT systems, energy and exergy analysis, and modeling and simulation of renewable energy systems.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Biosystems Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, and the Department of Renewable Energy, Faculty of Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Tarbiat Modares University (TMU), Tehran, Iran.

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Ashish Shukla

Dr. Ashish Shukla received his PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He was awarded a prestigious FCS fellowship to work at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, in the Department of Architecture. Currently, he is an assistant professor of building engineering physics at Coventry University in the United Kingdom (UK). He is a prominent building physicist and a sustainability expert. His research interests are building engineering physics, energy management, energy-generating building envelopes, and energy storage. His vision is to design self-evolving climate-responsive sustainable buildings through integrated building design to bring new low-carbon innovations to onsite construction practice. He is also a fellow member of the Higher Education Academy in the UK.
Affiliations and expertise
Centre for Built and Natural Environment, Faculty of Engineering, Environment and Computing, Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom

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