According to its geographical location, Algeria holds one of the highest solar potential in the Mediterranean basin, as indicated in many studies. Unfortunately, an important lack of data of the solar global radiation is observed. With a huge area of 2 381 741 km2, it is necessary to have...

The paper presents selected isotropic and anisotropic mathematical models to calculate the distribution of solar radiation on the photovoltaic module plane with any spatial orientation. A comparison of solar radiation models for Poland is based on measured data and received from the Institute of...

Using solar energy in Romania, not only in Prahova County, presents great development perspectives. Solar energy is considered a primary energy source, free and safe, an investment recoverable in record time and satisfactory to the investor and has countless technological applications, such as...

Nineteenth-century U.S. state prison records contain information on European-American stature. The most commonly mentioned reasons for stature variation were diets, disease, and work effort. The statures of whites were positively associated with direct sunlight. Stature and insolation were...

The results of the Sun’s UV radiation and stratospheric ozone layer thickness over the region of Novi Sad (Serbia) are reported. Monitoring the UV radiation and stratospheric ozone layer thickness started in 2003 and 2007 respectively. Results recorded during these years have been analyzed....

This paper presents a solar radiation forecast technique based on fuzzy and neural networks, which aims to achieve a good accuracy at different weather conditions. The accuracy of forecasted solar radiation will affect the power output forecast of grid-connected photovoltaic systems which is...

A model for computing monthly average daily diffuse radiation for Bangkok Thailand was developed. The development of the model was based on the analysis of global and diffuse radiation data collected from four solar monitoring stations located at different parts of Bangkok, with the data...

Solar resource maps for use in solar energy applications have been produced for Myanmar. A satellite-based solar radiation model, originally developed for the tropics, was improved and applied for the region. A 13-year period (1998–2010) of imagery data from GMS 5, GOES 9 and MTSAT-1R...

Most of solar radiation incident on a greenhouse is absorbed by greenhouse components (i.e., the cover, humid air, plants and soil) and the remaining portion is lost to outside the greenhouse. It is essential to know the absorbed and lost energy terms for any thermal analysis of greenhouses....

The problem of flat plate solar energy collector with water flow is simulated and analyzed using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software. The considered case includes the CFD modeling of solar irradiation and the modes of mixed convection and radiation heat transfer between tube surface,...