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Solar Engineering References

Solar engineering references -- books, software tools, and websites of use in solar designs.

General Engineering Reference Sites
The Engineering Tool Box http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/	A wide ranging engineering reference site. Material properties, Fluid Mechanics, Piping, HVAC calcs, ...
Units Conversion
Online Units Conversion http://www.onlineconversion.com/	Online calculator to convert units (eg metric to English)
Software Tool Lists
EERE Energy Software Tools Directory www.eere.energy.gov/buildings/tools_directory/	DOE EERE site list of software tools for a wide renewable energy applications. Some free.
Interactive Evaluation Tools for Small Wind, hydro, water heating, space heating, pool heating... http://www.eere.energy.gov	List of Interactive Evaluation Tools for renewable energy sources. From the EERE DOE site.
Technical Reference Books, Publications, and Websites Technical reference books that I have used and like, or have been highly recommended by others. Sites with an extensive library of solar publications.
Solar Thermal Engineering Peter Lunde	Covers a wide selection of topics, well written, practical, manageable math. 1980, 600 pages Out of print, but available used at Amazon.com and the like.
The Passive Solar Energy Book -- Expanded Professional Edition Edward Mazria	Covers all the basics, very readable, very little math. 1979, 700 pages Out of print, but available used at Amazon.com and the like.
Solar Engineering of Thermal Processes, 2nd Edition John Duffie and William Beckman	Very complete -- widest coverage of the books listed here. 1991, 900 pages
CANMET Energy Technology Center -- Buildings Group -- Publications www.buildingsgroup.nrcan.gc.ca	Outstanding list of publications on solar and renewable energy. Canada government site.
Solar Air Heating Systems Steve Kornher with Andy Zaugg Excerpts from this book	This is a fine book on designing and building solar air collectors and solar air heating systems of many types. Very good on design, very good on construction. Covers both active and passive air collectors. The book is out of print, but available at Amazon.com used books for less than $10 -- highly recommended. The link provides extensive excerpts from the book courtesy of Steve and Andy -- Thanks!!
Pumps and Turbines Arthur Williams	Nice combination of understandable physics and sensible economics. 2003 ITDG Publishing
Design: Solar Heating Of Buildings and Domestic Hot Water MIL-HNBK 1003/13A (1.6MB pdf)	170 page mil handbook on solar heating -- starts with general descriptions, but goes on to cover solar space heating and water heating in some depth. Covers both active and passive schemes. And its free!
Manual of Modern Hydronics, IPEX. WarmRite Floor Register to Download Hydronics Manual	Very good manual on designing and installing hydronic heating systems. Does not include any information on solar as a heat source, so look to the other refs listed in the section for that, but solar works well as a heat source for radiant floor heating. You have to go through a simple registration process before the download.
Active Solar Collectors and Their Application Ari Rabl	A great engineering reference on solar collectors of almost all types.
EERE Energy Software Tools Directory www.eere.energy.gov/buildings/tools_directory/	DOE EERE site list of software tools for a wide renewable energy applications. Some free.
Nick http://www.ece.vill.edu/~nick/	Nick Pine is a long time solar guru, creative solar thinker, and analyst. His site has some of his papers, and the full text of some 3000 usenet discussions he has participated in. These discussions cover just about every solar topic, and contain sample calculations to cover just about any analysis situation. You can download the entire "postlog" file and search for what you are interested in.