The last guidelines approved by Italian government to financially support the solar Photovoltaic (PV) Energy production development include specific indications for more advantageously funding installations exploiting roofs/covers surfaces mainly located in urban or industrial areas. Since the 3D heterogeneity, albedo, atmospheric turbidity and casting shadows significantly influence here the l...

Scope of this chapter is to provide design criteria for spacecraft solar arrays at system level. The design a satellite solar array is usually influenced by several constraints; mission profile, chosen attitude, overall spacecraft configuration, mass and sizing requirements, etc. Moreover, its design has to be harmonised with the chosen solar array power conditioning, in order to optimize mass,...

A colour design tool targeted at both unskilled consumers and professional designers is currently under development, on the basis of psychophysical studies into semantic associations of colour, the cultural influences and colour harmony. From experimental results for single-colour associations, 3 underlying factors were identified: “warm-cool”, “heavy-light” and “active-passive”, which were fou...

Solar energy utilization for covering and offsetting the heating loads of buildings, is a sustainable way to reduce consumption (electricity, gas, etc.) space heating. As such, Trombe wall technology classic passive solar system used in that can be modified applied cold climate regions. This work presents case study on wall’s application relation its thermal output purposes at factory building ...