“Solar Power Systems Design: From the Sun into Electricity” Book, 1st ed. Color

Description

This book is designed for students, engineers, professionals and anyone looking for understanding how to design photovoltaic systems from scratch even if you don’t know anything about solar energy or electricity. I used very simple ways for demonstration supported with diagrams, pictures, and tables so that everyone can understand.

It contains more than 200 figures, graphs and tables for more explanation.It is very simple and practical guide to understanding and design your own solar power system.

HOW THIS BOOK IS DIFFERENT FROM OTHERS

This book is different from the rest of the books that deal with the design of solar power systems in many things, as the following:

1- It is very simple to understand and not complicated, so anyone can read and understand easily. Read less, understand more. I also used very simple and clear ways and methods to enable the reader to design his/her own solar power system in very simple steps.

2- It has many figures, graphs, tables and diagrams [more than 200 items] that enable the reader to understand and gain maximum knowledge with high quality.

3- It has many solved problems and exercises that improve the understanding and providing the ideas and the material of the book.

4- I separated the book into 4 chapters and made them like steps so the first chapter reader learns the first part of the designing which is talking about the sun and solar energy. Chapter 2 is talking about the fundamental of electricity so reader can understand everything related to electricity that is required to design & build the system. Chapter 3 is talking about the components of the solar power system. In chapter 4, the reader will find complete process of designing an off-grid solar power system where I compound in this chapter the whole ideas that were mentioned in the previous chapters that enable the reader to put the ideas together and get the full picture of designing his/her own system. Chapter 5 is taking about the on-grid solar power system including designing procedure.

5- In this book I am taking some cities from different places as examples to clarify more such as New York city, Amman, Dubai, London…etc. In addition, this book provides tables of solar radiation values for more than 20 cities around the world trying to cover most places.

6- At the end of each chapter there is a conclusion, review and summary of the whole chapter.

7- This book has many references and resources [books, researches, papers, websites, etc..].

8- This book takes in consideration most people’s backgrounds. I used very great techniques and ways to write the book so anyone can understand easily. It has a coherent content.

9- This book covers a combination of theoretical and practical parts, so you can understand and apply easily.

10- The book is linked to a website, established to server all of the book’s readers. The website provides with lots of useful information related to solar power system design as videos, graphs and tables. Readers can also contact us and ask any question related to this book.

*Book is shipped from USA.
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*We don’t offer returns.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Solar Energy

1.1    Introduction
1.2    The Sun
1.3    Air Mass
1.4    Radiation, Irradiance, and Insolation
1.5    Tilt Angle
1.6    Solar position
1.7    Magnatic Declination
1.8    Tilted array spacing
1.9    Finding the Insolation for your Location
1.1    Work Sheet 1
Summary and Review

Chapter 2: Fundamentals of Electricity

2.1    Introduction
2.2    Electric Charge
2.3    Electric Current
2.4    Electric Voltage and Resistance
2.5    Water Analogy
2.6    Conductors, Non-conductors, and Semi-conductors
2.7    Alternating Current (AC) vs. Direct Current (DC)
2.8    Ohm’s Law
2.9    Power and Energy
2.10  Work Sheet 2
Summary and Review

Chapter 3: Solar Power System Components

3.1    Introduction
3.2    Features of Solar Power Systems
3.3    Applications of Solar Power Systems
3.4    Introduction to PV System Components
3.5    Types of PV Systems
3.6    Photovoltaic Modules
3.7    I-V Characteristic Curve
3.8    Efficiency of PV Module/Cell
3.9    Factors Affecting the Performance of a PV Module
3.10  Calculating the Optimum Tilt Angle for PV Modules
3.11  How Much Electric Energy a PV Module will Generate Based on the Insolation
3.12  Charge Controller
3.13  Batteries
3.14  Power Inverter
3.15  Electric Load
3.16  Parallel and Series Connections
3.17  Over-Current Protection Devices (Fuses and Circuit Breaker)
3.18  Disconnect Switches
3.19  Combiner/Junction Box
3.20  Conduit and Raceways
3.21  Grounding (Earthing)
3.22  Ground Fault Protection Devices
3.23  Surge Arrestors/ Suppressor
3.24  Maximum and Minimum Current and Voltage of a PV System
Summary and Review

Chapter 4: Off-Grid Solar Power System Design

4.1    Introduction
4.2    Determination of System Voltage
4.3    Voltage Drop
4.4    Shading
4.5    Choosing the Correct Cable Size
4.6    The NEC Requirements
4.7    Designing Procedure
4.7.1    Power and Energy Analysis
4.7.2    Power Inverter Size
4.7.3    Photovoltaic Modules Size
4.7.4    Battery Size
4.7.5    Charge Controller Size
4.7.6    Fuses, Breakers and Cables Size
4.7.7    Applications and Examples
4.8    Work Sheet 3
Summary and review

Chapter 5: On-Grid Solar Power System Design

5.1    Introduction
5.2    On-grid inverter
5.3    Net metering
5.4    On-grid PV system design procedure
Summary and review

Package Includes:

– One “Solar Power Systems Design: From the Sun into Electricity” Book, 1st ed. Color