Performance study on the east-west oriented single-axis tracked panel

Energy

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1530-1538

  Chang, Tian Pau ^a  

^a NAN KAI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Gain; Rotation angle; Solar radiation; Tracked panel

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; IRRADIATION; QUANTUM OPTICS; ROTATION; SOLAR ENERGY; SUN;

CLEAR SKY; EMPIRICAL MODEL; ENERGY COLLECTION; GAIN; GLOBAL RADIATION; HIGHER LATITUDES; HORIZONTAL SURFACES; INCIDENT ANGLES; PERFORMANCE STUDY; RADIATION LEVELS; RADIATION SOURCE; ROTATION ANGLE; ROTATION ANGLES; SIMULATION RESULT; SINGLE-AXIS; THEORETICAL STUDY; TRACKED PANEL;

SOLAR RADIATION;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; GRAPHICAL METHOD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SOLAR POWER; SOLAR RADIATION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 69349096183     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2009.06.044     Document Type: Article

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