Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter I: An Overview of the Renewable Energy Systems: Applications and Innovations; Towards a Clean Environment and Sustainable Development
(Socrates Kaplanis and Eleni Kaplani, Technological Educational Institute of Patras, Greece)
Chapter II: Solar Radiation: Fundamental Issues, Statistical Analysis and Prediction
(Eleni Kaplani and Socrates Kaplanis, Technological Educational Institute of Patras, Greece)
Chapter III: Performance Analysis of Various Types of Solar Collector Systems
(Socrates Kaplanis and Eleni Kaplani, Technological Educational Institute of Patras, Greece)
Chapter IV: Photovoltaic Cell and Modules Theory and Technology
(Vitezslav Benda, Department Electrotechnology, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic)
Chapter V: PV Systems Engineering and Sizing
(Eleni Kaplani and Socrates Kaplanis, Technological Educational Institute of Patras, Greece)
Chapter VI: Large Scale Wind Turbines and their Application
(Péter Kádár, Kandó Kálmán Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Óbuda University, Budapest, Hungary)
Chapter VII: Hydrogen Technologies and Fuel Cells
(Vladimir Kozhukharov and Maria Machkova, University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy, Sofia, Bulgaria)
Chapter VIII: Biomass Technology and Bio-fuels: Heating/Cooling and Power
(Spiros Alexopoulos, Solar-Institut Jülich (SIJ), Aachen University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
Chapter IX: PV Innovative Techniques and Experimental Test Sets
(Daniel T. Cotfas and Petru A. Cotfas, Center for Valorization and Transfer of Competence, Transylvania University of Brasov, Romania)
Chapter X: Size Optimization Algorithm of Hybrid Wind-PV Systems
(Fatih Onur Hocaoðlu, Electrical Engineering Department, Afyon Kocatepe University, Afyonkarahisar, Turkey)
Appendices
Index
