The third edition of John Duffy and William Beckman’s book Fundamentals of Solar Thermal Power Engineering is the most thorough, authoritative and cited fundamental scientific work among solar energy specialists, devoted to the description of computational, theoretical and experimental methods for studying the processes of thermal conversion of solar energy.
The book discusses both the basic processes of energy conversion, mathematical models and methods for designing solar power plants and solar heat supply systems, as well as approaches to the practical implementation of these systems. The book summarizes almost fifty years of experience of the Solar Energy Laboratory of the University of Wisconsin, USA. It is the developer of the dynamic simulation system for renewable energy installations TRNSYS, which has become in fact the standard for the design of solar installations in most countries of the world.
