Most existing solar atlases cover a continent or a country with a spatial resolution coherent with such visualization. These atlases generally depict yearly sum of Global Horizontal Irradiation (GHI). Thus they give a good idea of the large scale solar trends, which are particularly suited for an application of identification of wide areas of high solar potential. However, these large scale atl...

energy consumption is very high in greenhouses mainly due to off-season production. the main source of its energy supply is fossil fuels. due to the disadvantages of fossil fuels consumption and preventive laws in the incoming years, study on reducing consumption and replacing a part of them with renewable energy is essential. in this research, a solar heating system, equipped with a concentrat...

Research on automatic tracking solar concentrator photovoltaic systems has gained increasing focus in developing the solar PV technology. A paraboloidal concentrator with secondary optic is developed for a three-junction GaInP/GalnAs/Ge solar cell. The concentration ratio of this system is 200 and the photovoltaic cell is cooled by heat pipe. A detailed analysis on the temperature coefficient i...

n this special issue, three papers belong to the path 1 , six papers o the path 2 , and two papers to the path 3 . The thermal path to generate electricity is referred as “concenrated solar power” or CSP. The greatly insolated “sunbelt” reions of the world include large Asian regions in China and India s well as the southwestern United States, southern Europe, Ausralia, the MENA regions, etc. T...

In this study, the thermal performance of three kinds of roofs with different heat capacity and thermal conductivity under different external conditions has been investigated using a numerical method. For this purpose, the combined solar radiation, conduction and convection heat transfer were calculated implicitly in terms of a one-dimensional finite difference method. Different high and low so...