Solar Energy Advancements in Agriculture and Food Production Systems
- 1st Edition - June 23, 2022
- Latest edition
- Editors: Shiva Gorjian, Pietro Elia Campana
- Language: English
Solar Energy Advancements in Agriculture and Food Production Systems aims to assist society and agricultural communities in different regions and scales to improve their productiv… Read more
Solar Energy Advancements in Agriculture and Food Production Systems aims to assist society and agricultural communities in different regions and scales to improve their productivity and sustainability. Solar energy, with its rapidly growing technologies and nascent market, has shown promise for integration into a variety of agricultural activities, providing an alternative, sustainable solution to current practices. To meet the future demands of modern sustainable agriculture, this book addresses the major existing problems by providing innovative, effective, and sustainable solutions using environment-friendly, advanced, energy-efficient, and cost-optimized solar energy technologies. This comprehensive book is intended to serve as a practical guide for scientists, engineers, policymakers, and stakeholders involved in agriculture and related primary industries, as well as sustainable energy development, and climate change mitigation projects. By including globally implemented solar-based agriculture projects in each chapter and highlighting the key associated challenges and benefits, it aims to bridge the knowledge gap between the market/real-world applications and research in the field.
- Provides up-to-date knowledge and recent advances in applications of solar energy technology in agriculture and food production
- Introduces two advanced concepts of agrivoltaics and aquavoltaics and addresses their potentials, challenges, and barriers
- Explains the application of solar energy technologies in agricultural systems, including greenhouse cultivation, water pumping and irrigation, desalination, heating and cooling, and drying
- Explains the use of solar energy in agricultural automation and robotics, considering precision agriculture and smart farming application
- Describes new applications of solar energy in agriculture and aquaculture, and technoeconomic and environmental impacts of solar energy technologies in agriculture and food production
Engineers, researchers, and students working in sustainable energy, and climate change mitigation projects
1. Solar energy technology in agriculture: Developments, policies, and barriers
2. Solar energy conversion technologies: Principles and advancements
3. Advances in Solar Greenhouse Systems for Cultivation of Agricultural Products
4. Photovoltaic water pumping systems for irrigation: Principles and advances
5. Agrivoltaics: Solar power generation and food production
6. Aquavoltaics: Dual use of water bodies for solar power generation and aquaculture
7. Solar heating and cooling applications in agriculture and food processing systems
8. Solar Desalination Technology to Supply Water for Agricultural Applications
9. Solar applications for drying of agricultural and marine products
10. Applications of solar energy in precision agriculture and smart Farming
11. Economics and Environmental Impacts of Solar Energy Technologies
12. Emerging Applications of Solar Energy in Agriculture and Aquaculture Systems
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: June 23, 2022
- Language: English
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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.PC
Pietro Elia Campana
Pietro Elia Campana is Associate Professor at the Future Energy Center, Department of Sustainable Energy Systems, Mälardalen University, Sweden. He is the head of the agrivoltaic research group at Mälardalen University and project leader of the first agrivoltaic systems in Sweden. He holds a PhD in Energy and Environmental Engineering from Mälardalen University. He is associate editor in the Elsevier journal Applied Energy (IF:11.2). His research interests include modelling, simulation, and optimization of agrivoltaic systems and integrated energy systems, machine learning for energy applications, solar irradiance assessment and water-food-energy nexus.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Future Energy Center, Department of Sustainable Energy Systems, Mälardalen University, SwedenRead Solar Energy Advancements in Agriculture and Food Production Systems on ScienceDirect