SUN AND ITS ENERGY: Solar Spectrum, solar constant & solar radiations. Sun earth angles, solar hourly radiations, Radiations on Horizontal and inclined.
MEASUREMENT OF SOLAR RADIATION: Pyrheliometer, Pyranometer, Sunshine Recorder.
COLLECTION OF SOLAR ENERGY: Flat plate collectors, classification, construction, heat transfer coefficients, optimization of heat losses, Analysis of flat plate collectors, testing of collectors.
SOLAR AIR HEATER: Description & classification, conventional air heater, air heater above the collector surface air heaters with flow on both sides of absorber to pan air heater, air heater, with finned absorber, porous absorber.
SOLAR WATER HEATER:Collection cum storage water heater, Natural circulation & forced circulation water heater, shallow solar ponds.
SOLAR CONCENTRATORS: Classifications, characteristic parameters, types of concentrators Materials in concentrators.
PASSIVE SOLAR HOUSE: Thermal Gain, Thermal Cooling, Ventilation.
ENERGY STORAGE: Sensible heat storage, Liquid, Solid, Packed bed. Latent heat storage.
Solar Distillation, solar cookers, solar refrigeration
 

List of Recommended Books:

1. Solar Thermal engineering Systems, G.N.Tiwari, Sayesta Suneja., Narosa Publishing House.

2. Solar Engineering, H.P.Gupta

3. Solar Thermal Engineering, Duffie & Backuran