Recent Advancements in the Numerical Simulation of Surface Irradiance for Solar Energy Applications: Preprint

Yu Xie; Manajit Sengupta; Christopher Deline

Recent Advancements in the Numerical Simulation of Surface Irradiance for Solar Energy Applications: Preprint

Yu Xie, Manajit Sengupta, Christopher Deline

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This paper briefly reviews the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's recent efforts on developing all-sky solar irradiance models for solar energy applications. The Fast All-sky Radiation Model for Solar applications (FARMS) utilizes the simulation of clear-sky transmittance and reflectance and a parameterization of cloud transmittance and reflectance to rapidly compute broadband irradiances on horizontal surfaces. FARMS delivers accuracy that is comparable to the two-stream approximation, but it is approximately 1,000 times faster. A FARMS-Narrowband Irradiance over Tilted surfaces (FARMS-NIT) has been developed to compute spectral irradiances on photovoltaic (PV) panels in 2002 wavelength bands. Further, FARMS-NIT has been extended for bifacial PV panels.

Original language	American English
Number of pages	6
State	Published - 2017
Event	2017 IEEE 44th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC) - Washington, D.C. Duration: 25 Jun 2017 → 30 Jun 2017

Conference

Conference	2017 IEEE 44th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC)
City	Washington, D.C.
Period	25/06/17 → 30/06/17

Bibliographical note

See NREL/CP-5D00-74015 for paper as published in IEEE proceedings

NREL Publication Number

NREL/CP-5D00-67804

Keywords

FARMS
Fast All-sky Radiation Model for Solar applications
irradiance
models
photovoltaic
PV
solar energy

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Recent Advancements in the Numerical Simulation of Surface Irradiance for Solar Energy Applications: Preprint

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