Academic Press Solar Energy Advancements in Agriculture and Food Production Systems

Solar Energy Advancements in Agriculture and Food Production Systems provides a comprehensive overview of recent advancements in solar energy conversion technologies and their use in agriculture and the agri-food sectors. This book covers uses of solar energy in precision agriculture and concepts of agrophotovoltaic, aquavoltaic, solar bioreactors and solar pasteurization. Providing a technological and scientific look at assisting society, with scales to improve their productivity and sustainability, this book also addresses innovative, effective and more sustainable solutions for agriculture using sustainable, renewable energy sources and modern energy-efficient for cost-improved technologies. This reference is useful and practical for professionals, engineers, researchers, and anyone planning to develop solar powered projects in the agriculture and food production sectors. Review Presents advancements of solar energy technologies and their applications in agricultural farms and food production systems From the Back Cover <p><i>Solar Energy Advancements in Agriculture and Food Production Systems</i> provides a comprehensive overview of recent advancements in solar energy conversion technologies and their use in agriculture and agri-food sectors.</p> <p>Evaluating solar energy conversion technologies and the most recent advances of solar PV and Thermal technologies in different farm applications and food production systems, this book covers uses of solar energy in precision agriculture and concepts of agrophotovoltaic, aquavoltaic, solar bioreactors, and solar pasteurization. Providing a technological and scientific look at assisting society, with scales to improve their productivity and sustainability, this book addresses innovative, effective, and more sustainable solutions for agriculture using sustainable, renewable energy sources and modern energy-efficient for cost-improved technologies.</p> <p>This reference is useful and practical for professionals, engineers, researchers, and anyone planning to develop solar- powered projects in the agriculture and food production sectors.</p> 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. Petro Elia Campana is senior lecturer and associate professor (docent) in energy and environmental engineering at Mälardalen University. He is subject Editor for Applied Energy (IF=?9.746, Elsevier), and editor for the journal Energy Nexus (Elsevier) and Heliyon (Cell Press). He received his PhD in Energy and Environmental Engineering from Mälardalen University in Sweden in 2015. From 2015 to 2021, he was research assistant professor at Mälardalen University. He split his time between Mälardalen University and KTH-Royal Institute of Technology from 2017 to 2019. Dr. Campana´s research interests include simulation and op