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At least 5 million people die each year from injuries, and about
half the deaths in the 10-24 age group are accountable to them.
This is a major health problem for which a number of strategies for
prevention and control can be developed.
This book presents a series of the plenary and state-of-the-art
presentations from the 5th World Conference on Injury Prevention
and Control. There is a focus on transportation, workplace, sport
and leisure, and domestic sectors, and an exploration of the legal,
medical, environmental, safety and governmental issues which play a
part in the subject.
Practitioners and researchers in a variety of activities, including
epidemiology and public health, occupational health and safety,
ergonomics and product design, medicine, criminology, engineering
and physical sciences, and the behavioural sciences, should find
this a useful and challenging work.
This handbook aims at providing a comprehensive resource on solar
energy. Primarily intended to serve as a reference for scientists,
students and professionals, the book, in parts, can also serve as a
text for undergraduate and graduate course work on solar energy.
The book begins with availability, importance and applications of
solar energy, definition of sun and earth angles and classification
of solar energy as thermal and photon energy. It then goes onto
cover day lighting parameters, laws of thermodynamics including
energy and exergy analysis, photovoltaic modules and materials, PVT
collectors, and applications such as solar drying and distillation.
Energy conservation by solar energy and energy matrices based on
overall thermal and electrical performance of hybrid system are
also discussed. Techno-economic feasibility of any energy source is
the backbone of its success and hence economic analysis is covered.
Some important constants, such as exercises and problems increase
the utility of the book as a text.
This monograph focuses on a case study of a newly constructed
passive cooled four-story building in a composite (monsoon)
climate. The total initial embodied energy, CO2 emissions, annual
energy saving and CO2 credit of the building were evaluated as part
of the case study.
This book reviews recent advanced research work in the area of flat
plate collectors, solar distillation, greenhouse technology for
crop drying and production and solar electric/ thermal (PV/T)
systems. The basic working principle, energy balances, thermal
modelling, energy and economic analysis will be discussed. An
instantaneous and overall efficiency of each solar thermal and
electric system are also discussed and their results compared for
economic analysis. Basic knowledge of availability of solar
radiation is discussed in the beginning. Life cycle cost analysis,
which includes initial investment, operating cost, interest rate,
salvage value and annual power output, has been considered. An
energy pay back time (EPBT) for solar electric/ thermal (PV/T)
system has been evaluated by evaluating embodied energy during
production of solar cell, PV module and balance of system (BOS) and
useful both electric and thermal energy. Thermal energy from PV
module can be in the form of sensible heat either for water or for
air heating system.
This book is primarily intended to serve as a textbook and
reference work for graduate and professional training coursework on
solar desalination of water. The book begins with an introduction
to the increasing demand for potable water, various types of water
pollution and its impacts on human health, and goes on to cover
basics of desalination technologies. It covers all aspects of
solar-energy based distillation and desalination for producing
potable water resources, including radiation and heat transfer
concepts, a history of solar distillation systems, and background
on solar collectors. The contents include thermal modeling and
parametric study of solar distillation. Energy and exergy aspects
are analyzed in detail, including energy matrices of solar
distillation. A special chapter on exeroeconomics introduces
fundamental equations which include the general balance equation,
thermodynamic balance equations, and economic balance equations. A
chapter on Economic Analysis of Solar Distillation completes the
coverage. The book includes solved examples and end-of-chapter
exercises in the form of both problems and objective-type
questions. The contents of this book are useful to students,
researchers, professionals, and policymakers looking for a
comprehensive resource on solar desalination.
The SOLARIS 2012 conference focussed on solar radiation modelling
and day lighting, solar thermal (ST), photovoltaic (PV), renewable
energy resources (RES), climate change (CC), food processing
industries/rural development (FRD), and life cycle cost analysis of
renewable energy sources (LC). These proceedings from the
conference will be of interest to students, teachers, researchers,
scientists, engineers and users involved in renewable energy in
general and solar energy in particular. Manufacturers will also
find these proceedings useful.
SOLAR ENERGY: Fundamentals, Design, Modeling and Applications
provides a platform to the scientists and engineers to understand
the fundamentals of solar energy, and its applications and basic
heat transfer. It describes the design, construction and
performance of solar thermal devices and photovoltaic system. The
solar thermal devices include flat plate collector, air heaters,
crop drying, solar house, water heating system, solar distillation,
solar concentrator and a controlled environment greenhouse etc. The
economic aspects of solar systems have been discussed. KEY
FEATURES: About three hundred thirty figures, one hundred eighty
solved examples with fifty-five tables Large number of problems
with hints Appendix and a complete list of references for deeper
analysis and further studies
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