Solar energy and thermal modeling of solar th

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…

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