I-Corps: A solar radiation and sky condition monitoring system

I-Corps：太阳辐射和天空状况监测系统

• 批准号: 1708151
• 负责人: Qilong Min
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Albany
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2018-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1708151&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; solar; radiation; sky; condition

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is to provide accurate measurements of solar radiation and sky condition for weather, climate, air quality, and solar energy applications. The I-Corps project enables accurate monitoring and understanding of the inherent variability of solar radiation due to cloud cover, aerosol loading, and other atmospheric gases that are essential for determining solar energy generation. The technology and associated data analytics enable solar energy producers, developers, distributors, and researchers to improve solar energy prediction, to enhance solar panel efficiency, to reduce operation and maintenance costs, and to potnetially increase the penetration of solar energy into the power grid.This I-Corps project will enable customer discovery for a core technology which integrates a multi-channel radiometer and a sky imager into a shadowband scanning smart system. This smart system measures spectral and angular solar radiation distribution and meteorological parameters for monitoring solar radiation and weather conditions. It also combines communication, computing, remote sensing, and advanced analytics, and responds to feedback from the prevailing environment to deliver improved accuracy and performance. Thereby, it represents a multi-fold improvement over existing methods/systems. This enables more accurate retrievals of optical properties of aerosol, cloud, ozone, and water vapor in the atmosphere. The proposed activities will advance science and technology in weather, climate, air quality, and solar energy.

这个i-Corps项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是为天气、气候、空气质量和太阳能应用提供准确的太阳辐射和天空条件测量。I-Corps项目能够准确监测和了解由于云层覆盖、气溶胶负荷和其他对确定太阳能发电量至关重要的大气气体引起的太阳辐射的内在变异性。这项技术和相关的数据分析使太阳能生产商、开发商、分销商和研究人员能够改进太阳能预测，提高太阳能电池板的效率，降低运营和维护成本，并潜在地增加太阳能在电网中的渗透率。这个i-Corps项目将使客户能够发现一项核心技术，该技术将多通道辐射计和天空成像仪集成到阴影波段扫描智能系统中。这一智能系统测量光谱和角度太阳辐射分布以及气象参数，以监测太阳辐射和天气状况。它还结合了通信、计算、遥感和高级分析，并响应来自主流环境的反馈，以提供更高的准确性和性能。因此，它代表了对现有方法/系统的多倍改进。这使得能够更准确地提取大气中的气溶胶、云、臭氧和水蒸气的光学性质。拟议的活动将促进天气、气候、空气质量和太阳能方面的科学技术。