Abstract
A logical contradiction is pointed out involving the employment of some commonly used formulae for effective diffuse and reflected angles, when simulating the total irradiance on a tilted solar collector, in situations where the incidence angle modifier of the collector is known. By re-deriving the appropriate formulae for these effective incidence angles, it is found that the error involved in using the commonly used formulae is quite small in most practical cases. Differences are particularly small in the case of conventional photovoltaic panels, but may reach figures in the neighborhood of 5% for solar-thermal collectors.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 81-88 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Solar Energy |
Volume | 89 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Mar 2013 |
Keywords
- Effective diffuse incident angle
- Effective reflected incident angle
- Incidence angle modifier
- Isotropic model
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
- General Materials Science