Advances in Solar Heating and Cooling

Part I: Introduction1. Introduction to solar heating and cooling systems2. Resource assessment and site selection for solar heating and cooling systems3. Energy efficiency and environmental impact of solar heating and cooling systemsPart II: Solar heating systems4. Non-tracking solar collection technologies for solar heating and cooling systems5. Tracking solar collection technologies for solar heating and cooling systems6. Passive solar space heating7. Innovations in passive solar water heating systems8. Active solar space heating 9. Active solar water heating systemsPart III: Solar cooling technologies10. PV powered solar cooling systems11. Solar powered absorption cooling systems12. Solar powered adsorption cooling systems13. Solar powered desiccant cooling systems14. Other types of solar powered cooling systemsPart IV: Heat storage for solar heating and cooling applications15. Sensible heat storage for solar heating and cooling systems16. Latent heat storage for solar heating and cooling systems17. Chemisorption heat storage for solar low-energy buildingsPart V: Advanced applications of solar heating and cooling systems18. Thermochemical heat storage for solar heating and cooling systems19. Combined photovoltaic/thermal technology for building applications20. Future trends for solar energy use in nearly zero energy buildings

Professor Ruzhu Wang has been Director of the Institute of Refrigeration and Cryogenics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University since 1993 and is a leading scientist in the area of adsorption refrigeration research and solar cooling. In recent years he has also had a deep involvement in green building energy systems. Prof. Wang has published more than 300 journal papers, about 200 of which are in international journals, and has written 5 books on refrigeration technologies. He was elected as one of the top one hundred outstanding professors in China Universities by MOE China in 2007. Prof. Wang was appointed deputy Editor-in-Chief for the international journal Energy and Associate editor of Solar Energy. In the last ten years, he has been invited to give plenary lectures in international conferences more than 10 times.