Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front Matter -- Solar Power Plants: State of the Art / Gilles Flamant -- Solar Resource Management, Assessment and Forecasting / Sťphane Thil, Sťphane Grieu -- Optics of Concentrating Systems / Fraṅois Ȟnault, Benjamin Grange, Quentin Falcoz -- Solar Receivers / Benjamin Grange -- Heat Transfer Fluids for Solar Power Plants / Gilles Flamant -- Numerical Simulations of Flows and Heat Transfers of Solar Receivers / Fraṅoise Bataille, Adrien Toutant, Dorian Dupuy -- Materials for Concentrated Solar Power / Audrey Soum-Glaude, Antoine Grosjean -- Thermal Energy Storage / Aubin Touzo, Quentin Falcoz, Gilles Flamant -- Hybrid PV-CSP Systems / Alexis Vossier, Joya Zeitouny -- Synthetic Fuels from Hydrocarbon Resources / Sylvain Rodat, Sťphane Abanades -- Solar Fuel Production by Thermochemical Dissociation of Water and Carbon Dioxide / Sťphane Abanades, Sylvain Rodat -- List of Authors -- Index…”

“…Geographies of Solar Energy Transitions focuses on how solar energy governance (both state-based regulations and more market-driven modes of governance) is evolving to address a diverse range of conflicts and challenges…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Chapter 3 - Historic Milestones in Solar and Infrared Radiation Measurement; Chapter 4 - Direct Normal Irradiance; Chapter 5 - Measuring Global Irradiance; Chapter 6 - Diffuse Irradiance; Chapter 7 - Rotating Shadowband Radiometers; Chapter 8 - Measuring Solar Radiation on a Tilted Surface; Chapter 9 - Albedo; Chapter 10 - Infrared Measurements; Chapter 11 - Net Radiation Measurements; Chapter 12 - Solar Spectral Measurements; Chapter 13 - Meteorological Measurements; Chapter 14 - Setting Up a Solar Monitoring Station…”

“…Some of these scientists provided valuable research contributions to this Special Issue on “Advances in Emerging Solar Cells” published by Nanomaterials, MDPI. This Special Issue presents 12 excellent articles, 10 research and 2 review papers, covering perovskite solar cells, heterojunction solar cells, organic solar cells, dye-sensitized solar cells, and PV materials. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- About the Editor -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells -- 1.2 Unique Natures of Hybrid Perovskites -- 1.2.1 Notable Characteristics of Hybrid Perovskites -- 1.2.2 Fundamental Properties of MAPbI3 -- 1.2.3 Why Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells Show High Efficiency? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front Cover -- Technologies for Solar Thermal Energy -- Technologies for Solar Thermal Energy: Theory, Design, and Optimization -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- 1 - Fundamentals of thermal energy and solar system integration -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Foundation of thermodynamics -- 1.2.1 Basics of thermodynamics -- System and control volume -- Properties of a system -- Temperature -- Pressure -- 1.2.2 Basic energy conversion -- Fossil fuel energy conversion -- Renewable energy conversion -- 1.3 Thermal energy demand and supply -- 1.3.1 Sector wise thermal energy demand -- 1.4 Conventional thermal energy supply technologies -- 1.4.1 Boiler -- Classification of steam boiler -- Fire-tube boiler -- Water-tube boiler -- Modern boiler -- Heat recovery steam generators -- Recovery boilers -- Boiler mountings and accessories -- Superheaters and reheaters -- Economizers -- Air preheater -- 1.4.2 Combined heat and power -- Gas turbine CHP plants -- Solar energy conversion and integrated CHP plants -- CHP plants for district heating -- Selection factor for cogeneration systems -- The potential of CHP in industrial sectors -- 1.5 Solar thermal integration -- 1.5.1 Integration of supply level -- 1.5.2 Integration on process level -- References -- 2 - Solar thermal energy conversion -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The geometry of solar radiation -- 2.2.1 Latitude -- 2.2.2 Declination angle -- 2.2.3 Solar noon -- 2.2.4 Hour angle -- 2.2.5 Elevation/altitude angle -- 2.2.6 Zenith angle (θz) -- 2.2.7 Sunset hour angle (ωs) and daylight hours -- 2.2.8 Solar azimuth angle (γS) -- 2.2.9 Tilt angle or inclination angle (β) -- 2.2.10 Surface azimuth angle (γ) -- 2.2.11 Angle of incidence (θ) -- 2.2.12 Geometric factor (Rb) -- 2.3 Components and types of solar radiation -- 2.3.1 Irradiance -- 2.3.2 Irradiation or insolation…”