Solar Radiation Resource: Measurement, Modeling, and Methods

Gueymard, Christian A.

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-819727-1.00101-1

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“…It synthesizes the "climate normal" conditions of a specific location into a single year by concatenating 12 actual months selected from long-term data records spanning at least ten years [59]. Each month's selection is based on statistical analyses to determine which month most closely represents the "normal" conditions in the distribution [60]. In the specific case of the CWEC, the typical meteorological year was generated using the Sandia method [61] on the hourly weather data from the Canadian Weather Energy and Engineering Datasets (CWEEDS) [62].…”

Section: Climate Regionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Alternative Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) System Considerations for Reducing Energy Use and Emissions in Egg Industries in Temperate and Continental Climates: A Systematic Review of Current Systems, Insights, and Future Directions

Vanbaelinghem,

Costantino,

Grassauer

et al. 2024

Sustainability

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Egg production is amongst the most rapidly expanding livestock sectors worldwide. A large share of non-renewable energy use in egg production is due to the operation of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. Reducing energy use, therefore, is essential to decreasing the environmental impacts of intensive egg production. This review identifies market-ready alternatives (such as heat pumps and earth–air heat exchangers) to traditional HVAC systems that could be applied in the industrial egg sector, specifically focusing on their use in temperate and continental climates. For this analysis, energy simulations were run to estimate the typical thermal loads of caged and free-run poultry housing systems in various Canadian locations, which were used as examples of temperate and continental climates. These estimations were then used to evaluate alternative HVAC systems for (1) their capability to meet the energy demands of egg production facilities, (2) their environmental impact mitigation potential, and (3) their relative affordability by considering the insights from a systematic review of 225 relevant papers. The results highlighted that future research should prioritize earth–air heat exchangers as a complementary system and ground source heat pumps as a stand-alone system to reduce the impacts associated with conventional HVAC system operation in egg production.

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Section: Climate Regionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Alternative Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) System Considerations for Reducing Energy Use and Emissions in Egg Industries in Temperate and Continental Climates: A Systematic Review of Current Systems, Insights, and Future Directions

Vanbaelinghem,

Costantino,

Grassauer

et al. 2024

Sustainability

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“…Among these, the one proposed by Reda and Andreas (2004), which is used in the open-source pvlib-python tool (Holmgren et al, 2018) and National Renewable Energy Laboratory (2014), enables predicting the θ z and solar azimuth angle (α z ) with an accuracy of 0.0003 °. The θ z and α z as well as the tilt angle of the investigated PV surface (β) and its azimuth (α) allows calculating the angle of incidence of the sunrays (Φ) (Gueymard, 2022). Following this, E gt can be calculated with the following equation:…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Quantifying E dh and E bn represents an issue due to the lack of measured data. Although it is feasible from a technological point of view, only E gh is usually monitored for economic reasons (Gueymard, 2022). Therefore, implementing numerical models for decomposing E gh into E dh and E bn are a topic largely debated by the scientific community.…”

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“…Once E dh and E bn have been determined, E gt can be estimated by applying the transposition models in the next step of the model chain. Numerous transposition models have been implemented for quantifying E gt on south-oriented MPV (Gueymard, 2009;Gueymard, 2022). Nonetheless, this calculation is still prone to significant errors when it comes to estimating E gt characterized by a low angle of incidence or impinging on faces away from direct sunlight (i.e., rear of a BPV) (Riedel-Lyngskaer et al, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Horizontal-to-tilt irradiance conversion for high-latitude regions: a review and meta-analysis

Manni,

Thorning,

Jouttijärvi

et al. 2023

Front. Built Environ.

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This review focuses on the solar irradiance model chain for horizontal-to-tilted irradiance conversion at high latitudes. The main goals of the work are 1) to assess the extent to which the literature accounts for decomposition and transposition models specifically developed for high-latitude application; 2) to evaluate existing validation studies for these particular conditions; 3) to identify research gaps in the optimal solar irradiance model chain for high-latitude application (i.e., latitude ≥60°). In total, 112 publications are reviewed according to their publication year, country, climate, method, and keywords: 78 publications deal with decomposition models and 34 deal with transposition models. Only a few models (6) have been parameterized using data from Nordic countries. Here, we compare 57 decomposition models in terms of their performance in Nordic climate zones and analyze the geographical distribution of the data used to parametrize these models. By comparing the Normalized Root Mean Square Deviation coefficients for direct normal irradiation, the decomposition models Skartveit1 and Mondol1 are most effective on one-hour scale and Yang4 on one-minute scale. Recent studies on the empirical transposition models estimating the global tilted irradiation on vertical surfaces show the best performance for Perez4 and Muneer models. In addition, innovative methods such as artificial neural networks have been identified to further enhance the model chain. This review reveals that a validated model chain for estimating global tilted irradiation at high latitudes is missing from the literature. Moreover, there is a need for a universal validation protocol to ease the comparison of different studies.

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“…One of the most employed irradiance data sources in literature is PVGIS. However, typical meteorological year data or on-site measurements from weather stations (WSs) and pyranometers are also recurrent, especially for validation purposes [109]. The estimation of electricity curves is mainly present in economic potential.…”

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Modeling and Optimization of Photovoltaic Installations at Urban Scale

Fuster Palop

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The building sector in developed countries consumes 20% to 40% of the global primary energy, contributing to 30% of the CO 2 emissions. The population growth, particularly in urban areas, is expected to exacerbate this trend, compromising the sustainability goals outlined in international agreements and accelerating climate change. However, the increasing interest and political support in mature renewable energy sources, particularly solar photovoltaic (PV), offers improvement opportunities. The deployment of PV systems in urban areas presents advantages regarding emissions, economic, environmental, and social benefits, enhancing grid efficiency, increasing energy independence, and promoting sustainability awareness and community involvement. To increase the adoption of rooftop PV self-consumption (PVSC) systems in urban environments, studies on the PV potential can help overcome social barriers and enable public administration, utility companies, and private corporations to optimize energy planning, promote PVSC, and attract private investment in clean energy. Although most of the PV potential studies in the literature rely on geospatial physical models, the opportunities provided by Machine Learning (ML) and agile statistical approaches to reduce the high computational cost of the previous models are not fully exploited. These opportunities, especially in the economic potential assessment, remain scarce.

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Solar Radiation Resource: Measurement, Modeling, and Methods

Cited by 8 publications

References 177 publications

Alternative Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) System Considerations for Reducing Energy Use and Emissions in Egg Industries in Temperate and Continental Climates: A Systematic Review of Current Systems, Insights, and Future Directions

Alternative Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) System Considerations for Reducing Energy Use and Emissions in Egg Industries in Temperate and Continental Climates: A Systematic Review of Current Systems, Insights, and Future Directions

Horizontal-to-tilt irradiance conversion for high-latitude regions: a review and meta-analysis

Modeling and Optimization of Photovoltaic Installations at Urban Scale

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