Overview
Solar Chimney Power Plants: From Theory to Practice offers detailed information in one place, covering working principles, efficiency, performance-enhancing methods, experimental and theoretical studies, current application examples, techno-economic analysis, and artificial intelligence, providing the reader with a thorough and up-to-date understanding of solar chimney power plants. The book covers basic theory and dynamics of solar chimney power plants, systematic coverage of the various parameters affecting performance, assessment by experimental studies, mathematical and theoretical models, the use of computer simulations and computation fluid dynamics, and innovative applications and hybrid approaches. Finally, techno-economic analysis and the role of artificial intelligence are presented. This is an ideal resource for all those with an interest in solar chimney plants and energy conversion technologies, including graduate students, researchers, academics, faculty, engineers, R&D, scientists, policymakers and professionals in the renewable energy sector.
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Author: Erdem Cuce (Associate Professor, Division of Energy, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Recep Tayyip Erdogan University, Turkey) ,
Pinar Mert Cuce (Recep Tayyip Erdogan University, Turkey)
Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Imprint: Academic Press Inc
Weight: 0.450kg
ISBN: 9780443248160
ISBN 10: 0443248168
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 29 November 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
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Author Information
Dr. Erdem Cuce is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, at Recep Tayyip Erdogan University, in Turkey, where he is also Head of Low/Zero Carbon Energy Technologies Laboratory (L/ZCarE). Dr. Cuce is also currently a Visiting Professor at the School of Engineering and the Built Environment, Birmingham City University, United Kingdom. His research specialisms include solar chimney, solar energy, and sustainable buildings, and he has been involved as Editorial Board Member, Associate Editor or Guest Editor for a number of international journals across renewable energy, construction and sustainability. Dr. Cuce received the Young Scientist of the Year award from the Science Heroes Association in 2018 and the Outstanding Young Scientist Award (GEBIP) from Türkiye Bilimler Akademisi (Turkish Academy of Sciences) in 2021. He was also named in the World's Top 2% Scientists, by Stanford University in 2020, 2021 and 2022. Dr. Pinar Mert Cuce is Professor and Head of the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, at Recep Tayyip Erdogan University, in Turkey. With 20 years of experience in teaching, research, and management, she has worked on several scientific projects funded notably by the EU, TSB, DECC, EPSRC, British Council, TUBITAK, and international commercial companies. Her main areas of research are low/zero carbon technologies for buildings, innovative heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems solar thermal and hybrid PV/T systems, energy-efficient greenhouse systems, thermal superinsulation materials, nano coating and nano paint solutions, innovative windows, smart and thin film PV glazing, thermal comfort, thermal energy storage, enhanced heat transfer, advanced thermodynamics, and applied mathematics. Dr. Pinar Mert Cuce has authored or co-authored over 200 scientific papers in high-impact SCI journals and prestigious international conference proceedings, and has held positions as Guest Editor or Editorial Board Member of several journals.
