Estimating Solar Irradiance on Tilted Surface with Arbitrary Orientations and Tilt Angles
Estimating Solar Irradiance on Tilted Surface with Arbitrary Orientations and Tilt Angles
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估算任意方向和倾斜角度的倾斜表面上的太阳辐照度
作者:
Hsu;Chih;Kuo;C. Chan;Mei;Chih
Photovoltaics modules are usually installed with a tilt angle to improve performance and to avoid water or dust accumulation. However, measured irradiance data on inclined surfaces are rarely available, since installing pyranometers with various tilt angles induces high costs. Estimating inclined irradiance of arbitrary orientations and tilt angles is important because the installation orientations and tilt angles might be different at different sites. The goal of this work is to propose a unified transfer model to obtain inclined solar irradiance of arbitrary tilt angles and orientations. Artificial neural networks (ANN) were utilized to construct the transfer model to estimate the differences between the horizontal irradiance and the inclined irradiance. Compared to ANNs that estimate the inclined irradiance directly, the experimental results have shown that the proposed ANNs with differential outputs can substantially improve the estimation accuracy. Moreover, the trained model can successfully estimate inclined irradiance with tilt angles and orientations not included in the training data.