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Fundamentals of Solar Energy and Its Applications

Unit 1 discusses solar radiation, including the sun as the source of radiation and its relationship to the earth. It covers extra terrestrial radiation, atmospheric attenuation, terrestrial radiation on horizontal and inclined surfaces. It also discusses solar charts and measurement of global, direct, and diffuse radiation using various instruments. Unit 2 covers design considerations and classifications of solar collectors, including flat plate collectors for air and liquid heating. It analyzes temperature distributions, heat removal rates, useful energy gains, and losses in collectors. It also examines testing of flat plate and concentric tube collectors as well as concentrating collectors. Unit 3 addresses the conversion of solar energy to electricity via the photovoltaic effect and discusses photovoltaic materials, cells,

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Fundamentals of Solar Energy and Its Applications

Unit 1 discusses solar radiation, including the sun as the source of radiation and its relationship to the earth. It covers extra terrestrial radiation, atmospheric attenuation, terrestrial radiation on horizontal and inclined surfaces. It also discusses solar charts and measurement of global, direct, and diffuse radiation using various instruments. Unit 2 covers design considerations and classifications of solar collectors, including flat plate collectors for air and liquid heating. It analyzes temperature distributions, heat removal rates, useful energy gains, and losses in collectors. It also examines testing of flat plate and concentric tube collectors as well as concentrating collectors. Unit 3 addresses the conversion of solar energy to electricity via the photovoltaic effect and discusses photovoltaic materials, cells,

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UNIT 1

SOLAR RADIATION

Source of radiation – Sun earth relationship- extra terrestrial radiation – Atmospheric attenuation –
Terrestrial radiation-radiation on a horizontal surfaces and inclined planes - relations between monthly,
daily and hourly radiation and components of the radiations– solar charts – Critical radiation-
Measurement of global, direct and diffuse solar radiation – pyroheliometer, pyranometer, pyrogeometer,
sunshine recorder – an overview of solar radiation data in India

UNIT 2
SOLAR COLLECTORS
Design considerations – classification- Flat plate collectors- air heating collectors liquid heating –
Temperature distributions- Heat removal rate- Useful energy gain – Losses in the collectors-for efficiency
of flat plate collectors – selective surfaces – tubular solar energy collectors analysis of concentric tube
collector – testing of flat plate collectors. Concentric collectors - Limits to concentration – concentrator
mounting – tracking mechanism - performance analysis focusing solar concentrators: Heliostats.

UNIT 3
PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS

Conversion of Solar energy into Electricity - Photovoltaic Effect, Photovoltaic material - Solar Cell –
Module – Silicon solar cell, Efficiency limits, Variation of efficiency with band-gap and temperature,
Efficiency measurements, High efficiency cells, Recent developments in Solar Cells- PV systems
-applications

UNIT 4
ENERGY STORAGE
Sensible Heat Storage – Liquid media storage – Solid media storage – Latent heat storage – Phase
change materials – Chemical storage

UNIT 5
INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS OF SOLAR THERMAL ENERGY

Solar Thermal Power Plant, Solar Desalination, Solar Water Heating, Solar Air Heating, Solar Drying,
Solar Cooking, Solar Greenhouse technology: Fundamentals, design, modeling and applications

Reference Book:

1. SoterisKalogirou, “Solar Energy Engineering”, Academic Press, 2009. (UNIT I-V) 2. Sukhatme S P,
“Solar Energy”, Third Edition, Tata McGraw-Hill Education, 2008. (UNIT I-V) 3. Duffie, J. A. and Beckman,
W. A., “Solar Engineering of Thermal Processes”, Third Edition,Wiley, 2006. (UNIT V) 4. A Luque, S
Hegedus, “Handbook of Photovoltaic Science and Engineering”, John Wiley And Sons, 2003. (UNIT II, III)
5. H.P. Garg and J. Prakash, “Solar Energy- Fundamentals & Applications”, Tata McGraw- Hill,2000.
(UNIT I-V)

Text Book:

1. G. N. Tiwari, “Solar Energy Fundamentals, Design, Modelling and Applications”, Narosa Publishing
House Pvt. Ltd., 2002. (UNIT I-V) 2. L D. Partain, L M. Fraas, “Solar Cells and their Applications”, Second
Edition, John Wiley and Sons, 2010 (UNIT I-V)

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