Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conversion

Technologies, Applications and Environmental Impacts
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-0-12-819610-6
Verlag: Elsevier LTD, Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 462 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 730 g

Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conversion - Technologies, Applications and Environmental Impacts features comprehensive and up-to-date knowledge on the photovoltaic solar energy conversion technology and describes its different aspects in the context of most recent scientific and technological advances. It also provides an insight into future developments in this field by covering four distinct topics include "PV Cells and Modules", "Applications of PV Systems", "Life Cycle and Environmental Impacts" and "PV Market and Policies".

Zielgruppe

<p>Engineers, practitioners in industry and researchers working on the advancement and application of solar photovoltaics</p>

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gorjian, Shiva

Shukla, Ashish

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Energietechnik | Elektrotechnik Solarenergie, Photovoltaik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Solar Cells Technologies 3. Solar PV Modules 4. Solar PV Systems and Applications 5. Environmental Impacts of Solar PV systems 6. PV Market and Policies

Über Autor(innen)

Gorjian, Shiva
Dr. Shiva Gorjian is an associate professor in the Department of Biosystems Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, and the Department of Renewable Energy, Faculty of Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, at Tarbiat Modares University (TMU), Tehran, Iran. She received her PhD in mechanics of biosystems engineering from TMU in 2014. She is the editor of the book Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conversion: Technologies, Applications, and Environmental Impacts (Elsevier, 2020). Her main research area is renewable energy applications in agriculture (AgroRenewables). She has been the lead guest editor of a special issue on the same theme in the Journal of Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments (Elsevier) in 2021. Dr. Gorjian's research interests include solar photovoltaics, solar desalination technologies, hybrid PVT systems, energy and exergy analysis, and modeling and simulation of renewable energy systems.

Shukla, Ashish
Dr. Ashish Shukla received his PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He was awarded a prestigious FCS fellowship to work at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, in the Department of Architecture. Currently, he is an assistant professor of building engineering physics at Coventry University in the United Kingdom (UK). He is a prominent building physicist and a sustainability expert. His research interests are building engineering physics, energy management, energy-generating building envelopes, and energy storage. His vision is to design self-evolving climate-responsive sustainable buildings through integrated building design to bring new low-carbon innovations to onsite construction practice. He is also a fellow member of the Higher Education Academy in the UK.