Active Solar Collectors and Their Applications [Hardcover]

1. Survey of Solar Equipment and Applications
2. Solar Geometry
3. Insolation Data and Models
4. Collector Efficiency and Collector Testing
5. Fundamentals of Optics for Solar Collectors
6. Optics of Nontracking Collectors
7. Tracking Concentrator Types
8. Optical Analysis and Optimization of Parabolic Reflectors
9. Heat Transfer in Solar Collectors
10. Heat Transfer Factors
11. System Models
12. Applications
13. Practical Considerations
14. Economic Analysis
15. System Optimization
Appendix A. Nomenclature
Appendix B. Units
Appendix C. Properties of Materials
Appendix D. Meteorological Data
Appendix E. Circumsolar Data
Index