Determination of the optimal tilt angle and orientation for solar photovoltaic arrays

Renewable Energy

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2468-2475

  Mehleri, E D ^a   Zervas, P L ^a   Sarimveis, H ^a   Palyvos, J A ^a   Markatos, N C ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Global solar irradiance; Optimization; Orientation; Photovoltaic systems; Radial basis function (RBF); Tilt angle

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL SOLAR IRRADIANCE; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTIONS; SOLAR IRRADIANCES; TILT ANGLE;

ATTITUDE CONTROL; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; SOLAR RADIATION;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

ANISOTROPIC MEDIUM; CONTROL SYSTEM; DATABASE; IRRADIANCE; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; SOLAR RADIATION; TILT;

EID: 77954789416     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2010.03.006     Document Type: Article

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