SOLAR ENERGY Analysis of Solar Electric Generating System Loads and Costs Economics of Investment in an Industrial Solar-Energy System Designing a Flat-Plate Solar-Energy Heating and Cooling System Determination of Solar Insolation on Solar Collectors Under Differing Conditions Sizing Collectors for Solar-Energy Heating Systems | Source HANDBOOK OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING CALCULATIONS SECTION 17 SOLAR ENERGY Analysis of Solar Electric Generating System Loads and Costs Economics of Investment in an Industrial Solar-Energy System Designing a Flat-Plate Solar-Energy Heating and Cooling System Determination of Solar Insolation on Solar Collectors Under Differing Conditions Sizing Collectors for Solar-Energy Heating Systems F Chart Method for Determining Useful Energy Delivery in Solar Heating Domestic Hot-Water Heater Collector Selection Passive Solar-Heating System Design Determining if a Solar Water Heater Will Save Energy Sizing a Photovoltaic System for Electrical Service Economics and Applications ANALYSIS OF SOLAR ELECTRIC GENERATING SYSTEM LOADS AND COSTS Analyze the feasibility of a solar electric generating system SEGS for a power system located in a sub-tropical climate. Compare generating loads and costs with conventional fossil-fuel and nuclear generating plants. Calculation Procedure 1. Determine when a solar electric generating system can compete with conventional power Solar electric generation by definition requires abundant sunshine. Without such sunshine any proposed solar electric generating plant could not meet load demands. Hence such a plant could not compete with conventional fossil-fuel or nuclear plants. Therefore solar electric generation is at this time restricted to areas having high concentrations of sunshine. Such areas are in both the subtropical and tropical regions of the world. One successful solar electric generating system is located in the Mojave Desert in southern California. At this writing it has operated successfully for some 12 years with a turbine cycle efficiency of percent for a solar field of more than 2-million ft2 1 805 802 m2 . A natural-gas backup system has a percent effi- Downloaded from Digital Engineering Library @ McGraw-Hill Copyright .
