Solar Cooling Technologies [Hardcover]

Solar Cooling Technologies presents a detailed study of the potential technologies for coupling solar energy and cooling systems.

Unifies all the various power based solar techniques into one book, investigates tri-generation schemes for maximization of cooling efficiency, especially for small scale applications and offers direct comparison of all possible technologies of solar cooling

Includes detailed numerical investigations for potential cooling applications

1.Introduction. 2.Thermodynamic Cycles for Solar Cooling. 3.Solar thermal collectors. 4.Photovoltaic driven heat pumps. 6.Adsorption cooling heat pumps. 7.Alternative and hybrid cooling systems. 8.Trigeneration systems. 9.Solar desiccant cooling. 10.Thermal energy storage. 11.Economic evaluation of solar cooling technologies.

 

Book presents a detailed study of the potential technologies for coupling solar energy and cooling systems. It starts with the theoretical background on the refrigeration cycles and their thermodynamic analysis followed by description of different technologies for solar cooling.

Sotirios Karellas is an Associate Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering of National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), visiting Professor at the Technische Universit?t M?nchen and at the Universit?t Bayreuth in Germany, specialist on energy systems, energy storage, solar-thermal energy, biomass, ORC technology, decentralized energy systems, heat pumps, and tri-generation systems. He has over 100 relevant publications in scientific Journals and Conferences. He is currently supervising 6 Ph.D. students at NTUA working in the field of energy production/conversion. He has participated in a high number of projects in NTUA (2006-present) and in Technische Universit?t M?nchen (2001-2006), having both technical and coolck