Principles of Solar Engineering
Description:
Principles of Solar Engineering, Fourth Edition addresses the need for solar resource assessment and highlights improvements and advancements involving photovoltaics and solar thermal technologies, grid power, and energy storage.
With updates made to every chapter, this edition discusses new technologies in photovoltaics, such as organic, dye-sensitized, and perovskite solar cells, and the design of solar systems and power plants. It also features battery energy storage for distributed and bulk storage and electrical integration with the main solar systems. In addition, the book includes the latest advancements in concentrating solar power plants, such as supercritical CO2 cycle. Readers will benefit from discussions of the economics of the solar energy systems, which apply to all the systems covered in the subsequent chapters.
Features:
Discusses new forecasting models in solar radiation that are important to the economics and bankability of large solar energy systems, such as power plants.
Includes expanded coverage of high temperature thermal storage for Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP), including thermal energy transport using heat exchangers.
Features a new chapter on solar seawater desalination.
Includes new and additional end-of-chapter example problems and exercises.
A Solutions Manual will be available for instructors.
The book is intended for senior undergraduate and graduate engineering students taking Energy Engineering and Solar Energy courses.
Best prices to buy, sell, or rent ISBN 9781032155005
Frequently Asked Questions about Principles of Solar Engineering
The price for the book starts from $123.22 on Amazon and is available from 33 sellers at the moment.
At BookScouter, the prices for the book start at $16.95. Feel free to explore the offers for the book in used or new condition from various booksellers, aggregated on our website.
If you’re interested in selling back the Principles of Solar Engineering book, you can always look up BookScouter for the best deal. BookScouter checks 30+ buyback vendors with a single search and gives you actual information on buyback pricing instantly.
As for the Principles of Solar Engineering book, the best buyback offer comes from and is $ for the book in good condition.
The Principles of Solar Engineering book is in very low demand now as the rank for the book is 3,731,794 at the moment. A rank of 1,000,000 means the last copy sold approximately a month ago.
The highest price to sell back the Principles of Solar Engineering book within the last three months was on October 31 and it was $22.65.