Solar Energy Solutions for Sustainable Urban and Built Environment

Xingxing Zhang, André Augusto

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2026
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443445217
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Energy

Solar Energy Solutions for Sustainable Urban and Built Environment provides a single comprehensive source of the latest solar energy systems, both solar thermal and electrical, in the built and urban environment. The book is structured in three interconnected sections, with the first focusing on small-scale solar energy systems and technologies and presenting recent research in building-integrated photovoltaics and solar thermal systems, radio interference from PV systems, and sustainability of PV systems. Within the built environment and throughout the book, the goal is to reduce the carbon footprint of buildings through energy efficiency and the use of more solar energy resources.The second part of the book examines large-scale energy systems with solar resources, exploring the development of flexible energy systems to integrate more solar resources in cities, while improving our planning and design of energy infrastructure to handle the increasing demand for both electricity and heating. Finally, the third section highlights various innovative topics related to solar assisted energy-efficient buildings. This is a valuable resource for all those with an interest in solar energy, energy systems, built environment, and urban planning, including researchers, advanced students, faculty, engineers, R&D, scientists, industry professionals, consultants, and policy makers. - Reveals the principles of the latest solar energy systems and related technologies and components - Offers systematic guidance on the development of solar energy systems from design/planning to implementation and monitoring, as well as replication at different scales - Investigates energy efficiency, flexibility, and production in complex systems, covering key domains in built and urban environments, energy supply, and mobility to create added value - Filters available information to map practical needs for the development of solar energy systems in the built and urban environment

Table of contents

• Title of Book
• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• List of contributors
• Preface
• 1 The rising role of solar energy for sustainable urban infrastructure and buildings
• 2 An optimization model of global tilted irradiance separation in high latitudes for building integrated photovoltaics applications
• 3 A compact solar thermal facade for building integration
• 4 Evaluation of IDA Indoor Climate and Energy 5.0: PV modeling with measured data
• 5 Photovoltaic systems interfering with radio communication in the built environment
• 6 Life cycle assessment of photovoltaic systems in the built environment
• 7 Solar district heating with pit thermal energy storage: analysis for Swedish case studies
• 8 Coherence of strategies to optimize photovoltaic systems within the built environment
• 9 A multiobjective analysis for transitioning building clusters into positive energy districts with solar energy resources
• 10 Multiobjective optimization of a hybrid energy system integrated with solar–wind–proton exchange membrane fuel cell and energy storage
• 11 Investigation on the thermal dynamic performance and thermal comfort of a photovoltaic–Trombe wall
• 12 Unlocking the nexus between industrial heat and district heating using solar thermal collector, high-temperature heat pump, and thermal storage
• 13 Techno-economic assessment of a novel hybrid system of solar thermal and photovoltaic driven sand storage for sustainable industrial steam production
• 14 Techno-economic analysis of utility-scale PV–BESS systems in Swedish climate
• 15 Digital mapping of techno-economic performance of a water-based solar photovoltaic/thermal system for buildings over large geographical cities
• 16 Multiobjective optimization of building-integrated photovoltaic windows in office building
• 17 Dynamic whole system testing of solar heating systems—30 years of research at SERC
• 18 Environmental and economic assessment of renovating Nordic district-heated multifamily buildings with a photovoltaic solution
• 19 Climate-resilient solar integration: a comparative analysis of residential areas in Borlänge, Riga, and Amsterdam
• Index