Energy Efficient Buildings with Solar and Geothermal Resources

A modern and unique perspective on solar and geothermal technologies for heating and cooling buildings
This book will have a broad appeal reaching practising engineers in the industry as well as students. With introductory sections for each technology described, material includes chapters on: geothermal energy use for the heating and cooling of buildings; a chapter on electrically driven heat pumps/chillers; material on night radiative cooling, photovoltaic thermal collectors, temperature modelling and thin film photovoltaic modelling.
* Includes general introductory sections for each technology with market potential and applications
* Covers an increasingly important component of energy courses
* Considers a broad range of alternative renewable energy supplies relevant to the building sector, such as geothermal energy with heat pump
* With a special focus on solar cooling, provides detailed physical models of all technologies and example calculations
* Unique in covering the fundamentals of meteorological modelling