Design of Solar Energy Conversion Systems (Spring:2010) - Podcasts
by Pennsylvania State University
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Description
The course establishes foundation material for all solar energy conversion technologies, explaining the basic concepts and implementation of solar conversion processes. We describe the properties and availability of solar radiation and geometric relationship of sun/collector, proper- ties of materials used in solar conversion processes, procedures for solar thermal engineering calculations, principles of photovoltaic conversion (optoelectronic and optocaloric processes), designing PV systems, and solar concentration for heat and power conversions This course will complement the existing courses sustainable energy processes. Course activities include a semester project on a solar energy system design and class presentation on the semester project.
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Session 01: Intro and Discussion how Solar is Strongly Coupled to the Locale | -- | 1/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Session 02: Four Energy Design Technologies and the Solar Fraction | -- | 1/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Session 03: Learning a New Language and Earth-Sun Relations | -- | 1/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Session 04: Geometries and the Flat Plate Collector | -- | 1/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Session 05: Pyranometers and Components | -- | 1/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Session 06: Components and the Sloped Surface | -- | 1/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Session 07: Quality of Light -- Components and Frequency Distributions | -- | 2/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Session 08: Quality and Quantity of Usable Light -- Utilizability fraction | -- | 2/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Session 09: The Week(s) in Review by Robot Monkey | -- | 2/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Session 10: Bands of Radiation (battery failure--lecture is short) | -- | 2/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Session 11: Radiation Between Surfaces (Sun-Earth Part 1) | -- | 2/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Session 12: Radiation Between Surfaces (Sun-Earth Part 2) | -- | 2/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Session 13: Radiation (cut short due to battery again) | -- | 3/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Session 14: PV Operation, Heat Transfer, Review | -- | 3/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Session 15: Flat Plate Optocaloric Systems | -- | 3/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Session 16: Return from Break -- Flat Plate Collectors | -- | 4/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Session 17: Short Lecture due to Illness | -- | 4/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Session 18: Team Projects and Intro to Photovoltaics | -- | 4/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Session 19: Photovoltaics Continued | -- | 4/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Session 20: TRNSYS Simulation examples | -- | 4/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Session 22: Photovoltaic Action (3 steps) [no record of Session 21 due to missing recorder] | -- | 4/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Session 23: Energy Storage (some talk about RECs too) | -- | 4/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Session 24: Concentrating Solar Technologies | -- | 4/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Session 25: Conc. Solar (Part 2) | -- | 4/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Session 26: Solar Process Economics | -- | 4/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Session 27: Review of Solar Energy Conversion Systems | -- | 4/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 26 Episodes |
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Lecture notes
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