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

Yu Xie; Manajit Sengupta; Christopher Deline

doi:10.1109/PVSC.2017.8366316

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

Yu Xie, Manajit Sengupta, Christopher Deline

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Abstract

This paper briefly reviews the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's recent efforts to develop all-sky solar irradiance models for solar energy applications. The Fast All-sky Radiation Model for Solar applications (FARMS) uses the simulation of clear-sky transmittance and reflectance and a parameterization of cloud transmittance and reflectance to rapidly compute broadband irradiances on horizontal surfaces. The accuracy of FARMS is comparable to that of two-stream approximation, but it is approximately 1,000 times faster. A FARMS for Narrowband Irradiance over Tilted surfaces (FARMS-NIT) has been developed to compute spectral irradiances on photovoltaic (PV) panels in 2,002 wavelength bands. FARMS-NIT has been extended to bifacial PV panels by accounting for solar radiation reaching the backside of a PV panel.

Original language	American English
Pages	116-119
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2017.8366316
State	Published - 2018
Event	2017 IEEE 44th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC) - Washington, D.C. Duration: 25 Jun 2017 → 30 Jun 2017

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

Bibliographical note

See NREL/CP-5D00-67804 for preprint

NREL Publication Number

NREL/CP-5D00-74015

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

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