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| Preface | |
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| Abbreviations in the text | |
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| Solar energy use in buildings | |
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| Energy consumption of buildings | |
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| Residential buildings | |
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| Office and administrative buildings | |
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| Air conditioning | |
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| Meeting requirements by active and passive solar energy use | |
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| Active solar energy use for electricity, heating and cooling | |
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| Meeting heating energy requirements by passive solar energy use | |
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| Solar irradiance | |
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| Extraterrestrial solar irradiance | |
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| Power and spectral distribution of solar irradiance | |
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| Sun-Earth geometry | |
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| Equator coordinates | |
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| Horizon coordinates | |
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| Sun-position diagrams | |
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| The passage of rays through the atmosphere | |
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| Statistical production of hourly irradiance data records | |
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| Daily average values from monthly average values | |
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| Hourly average values from daily average values | |
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| Global irradiance and irradiance on inclined surfaces | |
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| Direct and diffuse irradiance | |
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| Conversion of global irradiance to inclined surfaces | |
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| An isotropic diffuse irradiance model | |
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| Diffuse irradiance model based on Perez | |
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| Measurement techniques for solar irradiance | |
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| Shading | |
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| Solar thermal energy | |
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| Solar-thermal water collectors | |
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| Innovations | |
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| System overview | |
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| Thermal collector types | |
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| Swimming pool absorbers | |
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| Flat plate collectors | |
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| Vacuum tube collectors | |
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| Parabolic concentrating collectors | |
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| System engineering for heating drinking-water | |
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| The solar circuit and hydraulics | |
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| Heat storage | |
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| Piping and circulation losses | |
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| System technology for heating support | |
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| Large solar plants for heating drinking water with short-term stores | |
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| Design of large solar plants | |
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| Solar district heating | |
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| Costs and economy | |
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| Operational experiences and relevant standards | |
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| Efficiency calculation of thermal collectors | |
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| Temperature distribution of the absorber | |
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| Collector efficiency factor F' | |
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| Heat dissipation factor F[subscript R] | |
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| Heat losses of thermal collectors | |
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| Optical characteristics of transparent covers and absorber materials | |
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| Storage modelling | |
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| Solar air collectors | |
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| System engineering | |
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| Calculation of the available thermal power of solar air collectors | |
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| Temperature-dependent material properties of air | |
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| Energy balance and collector efficiency factor | |
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| Convective heat transfer in air collectors | |
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| Thermal efficiency of air collectors | |
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| Design of the air circuit | |
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| Collector pressure losses | |
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| Air duct systems | |
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| Solar cooling | |
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| Open cycle desiccant cooling | |
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| Introduction to the technology | |
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| Coupling with solar thermal collectors | |
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| Costs | |
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| Physical and technological bases of sorption-supported air-conditioning | |
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| Technology of sorption wheels | |
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| Air-status calculations | |
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| Dehumidifying potential of sorption materials | |
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| Calculation of the sorption isotherms and isosteres of silica gel | |
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| Calculation of the dehumidifying performance of a sorption rotor | |
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| The technology of heat recovery | |
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| Recuperators | |
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| Regenerative heat exchangers | |
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| Humidifier technology | |
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| Design limits and climatic boundary conditions | |
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| Demands on room temperatures and humidities | |
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| Regeneration temperature and humidity | |
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| Calculation of supply air status with different climatic boundary conditions | |
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| Limits and application possibilities of open sorption | |
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| Energy balance of sorption-supported air-conditioning | |
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| Usable cooling power of open sorption | |
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| Coefficients of performance and primary energy consumption | |
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| Closed cycle adsorption cooling | |
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| Technology and areas of application | |
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| Costs | |
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| Operational principle | |
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| Energy balances and pressure conditions | |
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| Evaporator | |
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| Condenser | |
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| The adsorption process | |
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| Heating phase | |
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| The desorption process | |
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| Cooling phase | |
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| Coefficients of performance | |
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| Absorption cooling technology | |
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| The absorption cooling process and its components | |
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| Double-lift absorption cooling process | |
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| Evaporator and condenser | |
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| Absorber | |
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| Generator | |
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| Physical principles of the absorption process | |
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| Vapour pressure curves of material pairs | |
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| Refrigerant vapour concentration | |
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| Eenrgy balances and performance figures of an absorption cooler | |
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| Ideal performance figures | |
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| Real performance figures and enthalpy balances | |
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| Absorption technology and solar plants | |
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| Grid-connected photovoltaic systems | |
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| Structure of grid-connected systems | |
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| Solar cell technologies | |
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| Module technology | |
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| Building integration and costs | |
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| Energy production and the performance ratio of PV systems | |
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| Energy amortisation times | |
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| Physical fundamentals of solar electricity production | |
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| Current-voltage characteristics | |
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| Characteristic values and efficiency | |
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| Curve fittings to the current-voltage characteristic | |
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| Parameter adjustment from module data sheets | |
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| Full parameter set calculation | |
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| Simple explicit model for system design | |
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| I-V characteristic addition and generator interconnecting | |
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| PV performance with shading | |
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| Bypass diodes and backwards characteristics of solar cells | |
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| Simple temperature model for PV modules | |
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| System engineering | |
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| DC connecting | |
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| Cable sizing | |
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| System voltage and electrical safety | |
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| String diodes and short-circuit protection | |
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| Inverters | |
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| Operational principle | |
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| Electrical safety and mains monitoring | |
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| Inverter efficiencies | |
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| Power sizing of inverters | |
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| Thermal analysis of building-integrated solar components | |
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| Empirical thermal model of building-integrated photovoltaics | |
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| Energy balance and stationary thermal model of ventilated double facades | |
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| Heat transfer coefficients for the interior and facade air gap | |
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| Building-integrated solar components (U- and g-values) | |
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| Warm-air generation by photovoltaic facades | |
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| Passive solar energy | |
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| Passive solar use by glazings | |
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| Total energy transmittance of glazings | |
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| Heat transfer coefficients of windows | |
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| New glazing systems | |
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| Transparent thermal insulation | |
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| Operational Principle | |
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| Materials used and construction | |
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| Construction principles of TWD systems | |
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| Heat storage by interior building elements | |
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| Component temperatures for sudden temperature increases | |
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| Periodically variable temperatures | |
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| Influence of solar irradiance | |
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| Lighting technology and daylight use | |
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| Introduction to lighting and daylighting technology | |
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| Daylighting of interior spaces | |
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| Luminance contrast and glare | |
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| Solar irradiance and light flux | |
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| Physiological-optical basics | |
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| Photometric radiation equivalent | |
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| Artificial light sources | |
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| Luminance and illuminance | |
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| Luminance and adaptation of the eye | |
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| Distribution of the luminous intensity of artificial light sources | |
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| Units and definitions | |
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| Sky luminous intensity models | |
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| Light measurements | |
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| Daylight distribution in interior spaces | |
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| Calculation of daylight coefficients | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |