The book covers different harnessing technologies for solar energy, electromagnetic radiation including design principles and different types of spectrally selective coatings. It emphasizes experimental methods for synthesizing these coating structures and characterization techniques to quantify the absorber characteristics.
Solar Selective Absorbers: Materials, Coatings, and Applications covers different harnessing technologies for solar energy, electromagnetic radiation including design principles, and different types of spectrally selective coatings.
The book emphasizes experimental methods for synthesizing these coating structures and characterization techniques to quantify the absorber characteristics, suitable for solar thermal applications. It also provides a compact review of the literature on solar (spectrally) selective absorber materials and coatings.
- Summarizes the materials, deposition and characterization techniques, and applications of solar selective absorbers
- Introduces solar selective absorber materials and photothermal technology
- Explores electrodeposition techniques and their use in the development of solar selective absorber films
- Provides understanding of solar selective absorber materials and coating techniques in photothermal technology
- Explains sputtering techniques and their use in the development of ZrO2/ZrC-ZrN/Zr tandem structure-based solar selective absorber films
The book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in solar energy, solar thermal conversion, and materials science.
1. Introduction.
2. Radiation, Spectral Selectivity & Deposition
Techniques of Surfaces, Chronological Development of Spectral Selective
Surfaces.
3. Solar Selective Absorber Surfaces: Electrodeposition &
Sputtering Techniques and Characterization Techniques.
4. Low-Temperature
Solar Selective Absorber Surface: Black Chrome-Graphite Encapsulated FeCo NPs
Composite Structure.
5. High-Temperature Solar Selective Absorber Surfaces:
ZrOx/ZrC-ZrN/Zr Tandem Structure.
6. Solar Selective Absorber Surfaces for
Concentrating Solar Power Tower Technology (T>700°C).
7. Conclusion and Scope
of the Future Work. Annexure A. Miscellaneous work. Annexure B. MATLAB
Program for Absorptance and Emittance Calculation.
Belal Usmani is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics at Shibli National College, MSD State University Azamgarh.
Ambesh Dixit is a professor in the Department of Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur.
Vivek Vijay is an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur.
Rahul Chhibber is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur.
