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STE 411 Solar Thermal Heating and Cooling Technologies

HND2 levelEngineering & Technology27 topics

STE 411 covers 27 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Concept of solar thermal heating and cooling
  2. Passive and active solar heating technologies
  3. Passive and active solar cooling technologies
  4. Solar thermal heating collector technologies
  5. Solar thermal cooling technologies
  6. Components of solar thermal heating and cooling systems
  7. Working fluids and adsorbents for sorption cooling
  8. Selection criteria and applications of sorption cooling materials
  9. Principles of operation of solar heating and cooling systems
  10. Applications of solar thermal heating and cooling systems
  11. Maintenance of solar thermal heating and cooling systems
  12. Load calculation and solar radiation assessment
  13. System sizing and configuration
  14. Component selection and system integration
  15. Passive thermal systems
  16. Active thermal systems
  17. Solar thermal heating systems
  18. Solar thermal cooling systems
  19. Collector component properties
  20. Components of heating and cooling systems
  21. Assembly of thermal heating and cooling systems
  22. Temperature and pressure measurement
  23. Maintenance of solar thermal dryer
  24. Design guidelines for heating and cooling systems
  25. Component selection using charts and manuals
  26. Layout drawing with design software
  27. Use of PsyCalc software

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Concept of solar thermal heating and cooling

Solar thermal heating and cooling refers to the use of solar energy to produce heat for domestic or industrial processes and to provide cooling through absorption or absorption‑evaporative techniques. Mastering this concept is essential for the NUC CCMAS, NBTE, and NCCE exams because it underpins the design, sizing, and performance assessment of solar thermal systems, which are increasingly demanded in Nigerian…

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