Ali Khosravi1,*, Oscar Ricardo Sandoval Rodriguez2, Behnam Talebjedi1, Timo Laukkanen1, Juan Jose Garcia Pabon3, Mamdouh El Haj Assad4
Energy Engineering, Vol.117, No.5, pp. 249-265, 2020, DOI:10.32604/EE.2020.011024
- 07 September 2020
Abstract The energy coming from solar radiation could be harvested and transformed into electricity through the use of solar-thermal power generation and
photovoltaic (PV) power generation. Placement of solar collectors (thermal and
photovoltaic) affects the amount of incoming radiation and the absorption rate.
In this research, new correlations for finding the monthly optimum slope angle
(OSA) on flat-plate collectors are proposed. Twelve equations are developed to
calculate the monthly OSA by the linear regression model, for the northern and
the southern hemisphere stations from 15° to 55° and –20° to –45°, respectively.
Also, a new equation More >