Determination of efficiency of flat-plate solar collectors using neural network approach

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1533-1539

  Sözen, Adnan ^a   Menlik, Tayfun ^a   Ünvar, Sinan ^a  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Efficiency; Flat plate; Solar collector

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DUST COLLECTORS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; MODEL STRUCTURES; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SOLAR COLLECTORS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; SOLAR HEATING; SUN; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ANN MODELING; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AZIMUTH ANGLES; COMPLEX STRUCTURES; CONVENTIONAL TESTING METHODS; DECLINATION ANGLE; EFFICIENCY; FLAT-PLATE; FLAT-PLATE SOLAR COLLECTORS; INPUT LAYERS; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; OUTPUT LAYERS; SIGMOID TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; SOLAR COLLECTOR; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TILT ANGLES; TRAINING DATA;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 48749106719     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2007.08.080     Document Type: Article

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