 Estimation of hourly solar radiation for IndiaG.V. Parishwad, R.K. Bhardwaj and V.K. Nema Renewable Energy, 1997, vol. 12, issue 3, 303-313 Abstract: The ASHRAE constants predict high values of the hourly beam radiation and very low values of the hourly diffuse radiation when used to predict radiation at Indian locations. Hence a procedure has been developed for the estimation of direct, diffuse and global hourly solar radiation on a horizontal surface for any location in India. To calculate hourly solar radiation, an exponential curve, similar to the one used by ASHRAE, was fitted to the measured solar radiation data of six cities from different regions of India. The statistical analysis was carried out for the data computed using ASHRAE constants and the set of constants obtained for India using the measured data of four different Indian cities selected randomly. Three statistical indicators were used to compare the accuracy of the developed procedure. The results show that ASHRAE constants are not suitable to estimate hourly solar radiation in India. Hourly solar radiation estimated by constants obtained for India are fairly comparable with measured data. The mean percentage error with Indian constants for these four Indian cities was found as low as 2.27, −6.29 and −6.09% for hourly beam, diffuse and global radiation, respectively. Date: 1997 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:renene:v:12:y:1997:i:3:p:303-313 DOI: 10.1016/S0960-1481(97)00039-6 Access Statistics for this article Renewable Energy is currently edited by Soteris A. Kalogirou and Paul Christodoulides More articles in Renewable Energy from Elsevier |
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