Advances in Solar Energy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Radiometry —The Data

   • Raymond J. Bahm

   Pages 1-18

3. Solar Radiation Measurements: Calibration and Standardization Efforts

   • G. A. Zerlaut

   Pages 19-60

4. Biomass Pyrolysis: A Review of the Literature Part 1—Carbohydrate Pyrolysis

   • Michael Jerry Antal Jr.

   Pages 61-111

5. Recombinant Genetic Approaches for Efficient Ethanol Production

   • H. W. Stokes, S. K. Picataggio, D. E. Eveleigh

   Pages 113-132

6. Crystalline Silicon as a Material for Solar Cells

   • M. Rodot

   Pages 133-173

7. A Review of Large Wind Turbine Systems

   • James I. Lerner, Horst Selzer

   Pages 175-188

8. Large Wind Turbine Systems Seen from the European Viewpoint

   • H. Selzer

   Pages 188-207

9. Controls in Solar Energy Systems

   • C. Byron Winn

   Pages 209-240

10. Passive and Hybrid Cooling Research

    • John I. Yellott

    Pages 241-263

11. Passive Solar Heating Research

    • J. Douglas Balcomb

    Pages 265-304

12. Back Matter

    Pages 305-311

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The field of solar energy conversion has become an important discipline with a recognized potential to significantly contribute to the world supply of energy. It is diversified and encompasses a wide variety of disciplines - from mechanical engineering to physics, from biology to architecture, from ocean science to agriculture, from chemistry to atmospheric science, to name some of the major fields. It involves fields which have matured to the engineering aspects, such as the conversion of solar energy into heat or of wind into shaft work. It includes other fields in which more basic science research is necessary to unravel the micro-structures of nature, as, for example, for photovoltaic conversion or for certain bioengineering tasks. Several of these fields have elements which have been common knowledge for centuries but sometimes forgotten at times of cheap energy supplies, while others have barely started with first studies. Most of the fields have seen during the last decade a substantial advance in sophistication, in theoretical understanding, in demonstrated feasibility, in developing hardware, in field testing, with some moving into a phase of initial commercialization.

• agriculture
• architecture
• bioengineering
• chemistry
• energy conversion
• engine
• mechanical engineering
• nature
• ocean
• science
• solar cell
• solar energy
• structure
• structures
• wind

• University of Delaware and SES, Inc., Newark, USA

  Karl W. Böer

• University of Wisconsin at Madison, Madison, USA

  John A. Duffie

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