Advances in Solar Energy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Advanced Materials and Device Analytical Techniques

   • Lawrence L. Kazmerski

   Pages 1-123

3. Thermosyphon Solar Energy Water Heaters

   • B. Norton, S. D. Probert

   Pages 125-170

4. Passive Solar Energy for Non-Residential Buildings

   • Harry T. Gordon, P. Richard Rittelmann, Justin Estoque, G. Kimball Hart, Min Kantrowitz

   Pages 171-206

5. Physics of Solar Selective Surfaces

   • R. A. Buhrman

   Pages 207-282

6. Natural Air-Conditioning Systems

   • Mehdi N. Bahadori

   Pages 283-356

7. The Solar Ultraviolet

   • Bernard Goldberg

   Pages 357-386

8. New Technologies in the Production of Woody Crops for Energy in the United States

   • J. Warren Ranney

   Pages 387-438

9. Biomass for Fuel and Food

   • D. O. Hall, P. J. de Groot

   Pages 439-476

10. Back Matter

    Pages 477-482

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Advances in Solar Energy is back on schedule. Volume III contains a number of interesting reviews of the different fields in solar energy conversion. We appreciate the many encouraging comments received after the second volume appeared and have incorporated some of the suggested changes. Even though most of the reviews are invited through our editors, we are always open to suggestion about subjects of importance that are ready for a com­ prehensive and critical review and have not been recently covered, or about potential authors. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Professor John A. Duffie for his invaluable help in starting the Advances in Solar Energy series. Although he has recently taken full responsibility as editor-in-chief for the Solar Energy Journal, his continued assistance as a member of the Board of Editors is greatly appreciated. The diligent work of the many active editors is gratefully acknowledged and constitutes the basis for a valuable review periodical with outstanding contributions. The typesetting was done by Sandra Pruitt in the Delaware office, using the TEX-program with laser print-out. Her organization and patience in coordinating with the authors, and her technical skill and diligence in preparing the submitted copy permitted the timely and high-quality assembly of this production. We wish to commend her for efforts well beyond the call of duty. The accommodating help from Plenum Press and its production staff deserves our grateful acknowledgement.

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• University of Delaware, Newark, USA

  Karl W. Böer

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