Master the basics of solar energy exploitation and radiation geometry in this free solar engineering course. You will learn about the nature of solar radiation, how the sun’s power reaches the earth and different ways of harnessing and using it. Explore various instruments and devices used in capturing and measuring solar radiation, and study the fundamentals of radiation geometry, how to calculate the solar time of a place and read sun-path diagrams. This course is your gateway to the field of solar energy engineering!
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 4-5 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | What You Will Learn In This Free Course • Recall the different ways of harnessing solar energy • Describe the devices commonly used for solar energy collection and storage • Explain how solar radiation reaches the surface of the earth from the surface of the sun • Distinguish between the two most popular theories of radiation • Explain the concepts of 'diffusion', 'scattering' and 'black-body radiation' • Identify the different instruments used for solar radiation measurement • Define the various terminology used in solar radiation geometry • Indicate the relationships between the different angles of solar radiation geometry • Distinguish between local time and standard time • Calculate the monthly average solar radiation at a given place • Explain the utility of sun-path diagrams |
| Course Code | 3041 |
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