The book “Solar Thermal Systems: Thermal Analysis and its Application” encapsulates the solar thermal systems available to meet the need of food, fresh water, cooking food, heating water etc. The fundamentals of thermodynamics, heat transfer and solar energy are covered in Chapter 1 and Chapter 2. The basics of some solar thermal devices along with their thermal modeling are covered in Chapter 3. The basics of solar still, its thermal modeling, applications, development in past few years and potential of solar distillation system in India is discussed in Chapter 4-6. The design, development and applications of solar cookers along with their thermal modeling are covered in Chapter 7-8. Thermal modeling of semi-transparent PVT systems and its application is discussed in Chapter 9 and Chapter 10 covers the development in solar photovoltaic technology. Chapter 11 and Chapter 12 discusses about thermal modeling of greenhouse solar dryer and case study on hybrid active greenhouse solar dryer. Chapter 13 covers the thermal analysis of photovoltaic thermal (PVT) air heater employing thermoelectric module (TEM). The applications of various solar systems in building sectors and the development in this field are covered in Chapter 14. Chapter 15 deals with exergo and environ- economics analysis of bio-gas integrated semi-transparent photo-voltaic thermal (Bi-iSPVT) system for Indian composite climate.
The book “Solar Thermal Systems: Thermal Analysis and its Application has a broad scope and helps students and researchers in universities, industries, and national and commercial laboratories to learn the fundamentals and in-depth knowledge regarding thermal modeling and developments in solar thermal systems in the past few years. It is a research-oriented book in which different researchers have contributed in the form of different chapters. I hope that the book will provide sufficient knowledge regarding solar systems and will not discourage the readers. This book can be used as a reference tool for teaching the solar energy and thermal modeling of solar thermal systems to the students and research fellows in universities and research organizations.
About the editors:
Dr. Manoj Kumar Gaur is working as a Professor and Head in Mechanical Engineering Department, Associate Proctor and In charge of the Institute Industry Interaction Cell at Madhav Institute of Technology and Science, Gwalior, India. He has made substantial contributions to the fields of solar thermal energy, solar distillation, and heat and mass transfer applications. He has eighteen years of teaching experience of Postgraduate and Undergraduate classes. He has authored three books and hundreds of his papers have been published in various international and national journals and conferences. He is an active reviewer of prestigious Journal like Solar Energy, Desalination, Desalination and Water Treatment, Journal of Thermal Engineering etc. His broad area of interest includes thermodynamics, heat transfer, solar energy and solar distillation. He is a life member of the Indian Society for Technical Education (India), IET and Faculty Advisor of Society of Automotive Engineers INDIA MITS chapter.
Professor Brian Norton is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and a Fellow of the Irish Academy of Engineering. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers. His awards include the CIBSE Napier Shaw Medal for the development of the "Degree-hour" building energy-use correlation. He has received the Energy Institute Roscoe Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Solaris Conference in Varanasi, India in 2012. He is a co-author of the 2012 American Association of Publishers "PROSE Award" winning book "Comprehensive Renewable Energy" and recipient of "Solar Energy" Journal Best Paper Award in Photovoltaic in 2007. He is currently a Principal Investigator in MaREI, the Irish national research Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine and leads its Energy Efficiency research area. He is currently Vice-President and Treasurer of the European Sustainable Energy Innovation Alliance and serves on the board of the International Energy Research Centre. Professor Norton has supervised over fifty doctorates and authored over 200 peer-reviewed journal research papers and over 270 conference papers. His research outputs have received nearly 10,000 citations with an h-index of 51. He is trained both as a physicist and an engineer, his qualifications include Doctorates from Nottingham and Cran-field Universities in the UK. Gopal Nath Tiwari
Professor Gopal Nath Tiwari had received postgraduate and doctoral degrees in 1972 and 1976, respectively, from Banaras Hindu University (B.H.U.). Since 1977, he has been actively involved in teaching program at Centre for Energy Studies, IIT Delhi. His research interests are solar distillation, solar drying, greenhouse technology, Passive building design and Hybrid photovoltaic thermal systems for greenhouse. He has guided about 100 Ph.D. students and published over 600 research papers in journals of repute. He has authored twenty books associated with reputed publishers. He is a co-recipient of Hari Om Ashram Prerit S.S. Bhatnagar Award in 1982. He was also a recipient of European Fellow in 1997. He had been to the University Of Ulster (U.K.) in 1993. He is responsible for development of Solar Energy Park at IIT Delhi and Energy Laboratory at University of Papua, New Guinea, Port Moresby. Professor Tiwari had visited many countries and successfully co-coordinated various research projects funded by the Govt. of India in the past. He has also been conferred "Vigyan Ratna" award by Government of Uttar Pradesh in the year 2007. Currently, he is President of Bag Energy Research Society (BERS-2007) (www.bers.in) to disseminate energy education in rural areas.
Keywords:
Solar energy, Solar panels, Solar Thermal systems, Space heating, Thermal modeling, Heat transfer analysis, Solar dryer, Passive solar systems, Solar cooker, Active solar systems, Solar stills, Energy analysis, Solar distillation system, Exergy analysis, Solar pond, Desalination, Hybrid solar dryer, Thermal performance of solar system, Photovoltaic
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