In the year 1994 the DLR in Cologne inaugurated a 20 kW solar furnace for technological and scientific experiments. One of the main applications of the solar furnace is the research on photochemical reactions using concentrated sunlight. For this purpose exact knowledge of the spectral...

Solar Global Horizontal Irradiance (GHI) fluctuates on both short (seconds to hours) and long (days to months) timescales leading to variability of power produced by solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. Under a high PV penetration scenario, fluctuations on short time scales may require a...

This paper focuses on the development of a dynamic multi-level model for simulating of a solar cooling system adopting an adsorption chiller. The model integrates detailed simulation of the adsorption cycle (component level) into the transient simulation of the solar cooling system (system...