Energy policy promoting sustainable development is transforming global energy markets. Solar power, the most abundant of all renewable resources, is crucial to greater achieving energy security and sustainability. This new edition of Solar Energy Engineering: Processes and Systems from Prof. Soteris Kalogirou, a renowned expert with over thirty years of experience in renewable energy systems and applications, includes revised and updated chapters on all areas of solar energy engineering from the fundamentals to the highest level of current research. The book includes high interest topics such as solar collectors, solar water heating, solar space heating and cooling, industrial process heat, solar desalination, photovoltaic technology, solar thermal power systems, modeling of solar energy systems and includes a new chapter on wind energy systems. As solar energy’s vast potential environmental and socioeconomic benefits are broadly recognized, the second edition of Solar Energy Engineering: Processes and Systems will provide professionals and students with a resource on the basic principles and applications of solar energy systems and processes and can be used as a reference guide to practicing engineers who want to understand how solar systems operate and how to design the systems.
Written by one of the world’s most renowned experts in solar energy with over thirty years of experience in renewable and particularly solar energy applications
Provides updated chapters including new sections detailing solar collectors, uncertainties in solar collector performance testing, building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV), thermosiphonic systems performance prediction and solar updraft tower systems
Includes a new chapter on wind energy systems
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The updated fourth edition of the “bible” of solar energy theory and applications
Over several editions, Solar Engineering of Thermal Processes has become a classic solar engineering text and reference. This revised Fourth Edition offers current coverage of solar energy theory, systems design, and applications in different market sectors along with an emphasis on solar system design and analysis using simulations to help readers translate theory into practice.
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SCATTERED across more than 2600 hectares of prime farming land, the $260 million Mount Mercer Wind Farm is certainly an impressive sight.
Ballarat wind farm a feat of engineering
SCATTERED across more than 2600 hectares of prime farming land, the $260 million Mount Mercer Wind Farm is certainly an impressive sight.
Currently operating at half its capacity, with 32 of 64 turbines creating energy, the wind farm is expected to be firing on all cylinders by the middle of the year.
Pouring energy into a grid near Elaine, once complete the farm will generate enough renewable energy to power almost 100,000 homes – or the whole of Ballarat.
The Courier took a tour of the wind farm yesterday, alongside representatives of some of Ballarat’s largest organisations (and energy users).
Love them or hate them, the wind farm has certainly created some form of quiet beauty on Mt Mercer’s rolling paddocks.
Meridian Energy Australia chief executive officer, Ben Burge, describes each tower and – soaring 126m into the sky and weighing more than 200 tonnes – as a feat of “engineering porn”.
Mr Burge added that most the energy created at Mt Mercer will be consumed in Ballarat.
“These wind turbines are a major asset to the community,” he said.
The wind farm occupies the farming land of seven land owners, and once complete will allow the owners to continue to farm their land.
Meridian Energy Australia assistant project manager Angus Holcombe said most of land was owned by sheep and cattle farmers, while an area to the south was owned by a commercial piggery, Western Plains Pork.
Mr Holcombe said land owners were first approached in 2003 before Meridian Energy Australia bought the development rights in 2009.
Construction of the wind farm started in December 2012 and at its peak has had more than 250 employees working on it to get it up and running.
Once complete it is expected that the wind farm will provide 20 full-time jobs.
Powershop, a parent compant of Meridian and one of the new companies in the world of energy providers, hopes to sign up more than 5000 Ballarat customers over the next 12 months.
A number of Ballarat organisations, including UFS Dispensaries, have already signed up to Powershop.
patrick.byrne@fairfaxmedia.com.au
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