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Sustainable Advanced Solar Passive House¿provides a platform to disseminate knowledge regarding the basics of solar energy, heat transfer, and solar houses, including designing concepts. Apart from a brief introduction to solar physics and thermodynamics, the book primarily deals with the technical description of solar houses and associated concepts. Different types of photovoltaic modules and their integration with the buildings are discussed with case studies, including energy balance equations and fundamental energy matrices.¿It discusses concepts like energy matrices, solar passive heating/cooling, architecture design, low-cost building, energy/exergy analysis, building integrated photovoltaic, and energy conservation.
List of contents
Chapter 1:General Introduction
Chapter 2: Basic heat transfer
Chapter 3: Thermal comfort
Chapter 4: Energy and exergy analysis
Chapter 5: Solar cell materials, PV modules and arrays
Chapter 6:Static design for a light structured building for cold climatic conditions
Chapter 7: Dynamic Design Concepts for hot climatic conditions
Chapter 8: Building integrated photovoltaic thermal system (BiPVT)
Chapter 9: Environmental aspects
Chapter 10: Life cycle analysis
Chapter 11:Photovoltaic application in architecture
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Appendix E
Appendix F
About the author
Gopal Nath Tiwari, Neha Gupta
Summary
This book provides a platform to disseminate knowledge regarding basics of solar energy, heat transfer and solar houses including designing concepts. It discusses concepts like energy matrices, solar passive heating/cooling, architecture design, low cost building, energy/exergy analysis, building integrated photovoltaic and energy conservation.
