Outdoor testing of photovoltaic arrays in the Saharan region

Renewable Energy

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2516-2524

  Sadok, Mohammed ^a   Mehdaoui, Ahmed ^a  

^a CENTRE DE DÉVELOPPEMENT DES ENERGIES RENOUVELABLES   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Degradation; Electrical characteristic; Numerical method; Photovoltaic array; Standard test conditions

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL METHODS; STANDARDS; SULFATE MINERALS;

ALGERIA; AMBIENT TEMPERATURES; DEGRADATION; ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTIC; ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTICS; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS; EXPONENTIAL MODELS; I-V CHARACTERISTICS; NUMERICAL METHOD; OUTDOOR TESTING; PHOTOVOLTAIC ARRAY; PHOTOVOLTAIC ARRAYS; SOLAR IRRADIANCES; STANDARD CONDITIONS; STANDARD TEST CONDITIONS;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

ARRAY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; IRRADIANCE; MODELING; NUMERICAL METHOD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; TESTING METHOD;

AFRICA; ALGERIA; NORTH AFRICA; SAHARA;

EID: 49349092818     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2008.02.016     Document Type: Article

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