Academic Press Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conversion: Technologies, Applications and Environmental Impacts

Product Description Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conversion - Technologies, Applications and Environmental Impacts features comprehensive and up-to-date knowledge on the photovoltaic solar energy conversion technology and describes its different aspects in the context of most recent scientific and technological advances. It also provides an insight into future developments in this field by covering four distinct topics include "PV Cells and Modules", "Applications of PV Systems", "Life Cycle and Environmental Impacts" and "PV Market and Policies". Review An up-to-date reference book on the advances of photovoltaic technology and its energy conversion About the Author Dr. Shiva Gorjian is assistant professor in the Department of Biosystems Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, and the Department of Renewable Energy, Faculty of Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, at Tarbiat Modares University (TMU), Tehran, Iran. She received her PhD in Mechanics of Biosystems Engineering from TMU in 2014 with the first rank. She is the editor of the book 'Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conversion: Technologies, Applications, and Environmental Impacts', published by Elsevier in 2020. Dr. Gorjian’s main research area is renewable energy applications in agriculture (AgroRenwables). She was the lead guest editor of a special issue on 'Feasibility, Efficiency, and Sustainability of Renewable Energy Applications in Agriculture' in the Journal of Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments (Elsevier) in 2021. Dr. Gorjian's research interests include solar desalination technologies, hybrid PVT systems, energy and exergy analysis, and renewable energy systems modeling and simulation. She has published several papers in high-impact international journals and has been invited to speak at several national and international conferences. Dr. Ashish Shukla received his PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He was awarded a prestigious FCS fellowship to work at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, in the Department of Architecture. Currently, he is an assistant professor of building engineering physics at Coventry University in the United Kingdom (UK). He is a prominent building physicist and a sustainability expert. His research interests are building engineering physics, energy management, energy-generating building envelopes, and energy storage. His vision is to design self-evolving climate-responsive sustainable buildings through integrated building design to bring new low-carbon innovations to onsite construction practice. He is also a fellow member of the Higher Education Academy in the UK.