Solar thermal energy : a volume in the Encyclopedia of sustainability science and technology, second edition / Spiros Alexopoulos, Soteris A. Kalogirou, editors.
Alexopoulos, Spiros, editor.; Kalogirou, Soteris, editor.
2022
TJ810 .S65 2022
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Title Solar thermal energy : a volume in the Encyclopedia of sustainability science and technology, second edition / Spiros Alexopoulos, Soteris A. Kalogirou, editors.
ISBN 9781071614228 (electronic bk.)
1071614223 (electronic bk.)
9781071614211
1071614215
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1422-8
Published New York, NY : Springer, [2022]
Copyright ©2022
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color).
Item Number 10.1007/978-1-0716-1422-8 doi
Call Number TJ810 .S65 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification 621.47
Summary This volume of the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology, Second Edition, describes technologies that actively convert solar radiation into useful heat in a temperature range from just above ambient up to more than 1,000ÀC. Applications cover a broad range of energy services such as space heating, cooking, domestic hot water supply, electrical power generation, and high temperature thermochemical processes. The major developments that have led to currently available technologies for solar thermal energy applications were initiated mainly after the first oil shock in 1973. Solar thermal energy is widely used already for heating purposes (water, space) in the "low" temperature range up to about 100°C employing mainly nonconcentrating collectors, whereas higher temperatures can be achieved with more sophisticated solar collector technologies. Temperatures over 200°C typically require concentrating solar radiation using mirror systems. Several different technologies are described in detail in this volume, including solar collector systems in the lower temperature range, the direct use of solar radiation for food processing, namely cooking and drying, the production of electricity through conversion of solar radiation first to heat, driving a mechanical conversion system coupled to an electric generator, the use of solar radiation to drive chemical processes, and many more.
Note Includes index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 1, 2022).
Added Author Alexopoulos, Spiros, editor.
Kalogirou, Soteris, editor.
Series Encyclopedia of sustainability science and technology series. 2629-2386
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Solar Detoxification and Disinfection of Water
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Parabolic Trough Solar Technology
Solar Thermal Energy, Introduction.

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