Planeamento
Aulas Teóricas
1. Solar Radiation and Optics / Lesson 1
1.1 Solar geometry, extraterrestrial irradiance and incidence angles
- The sun (1.1)
- The solar constant (1.2)
- Variation of extraterrestrial radiation (1.4)
- solar time (1.5)
- Incidence Angle on Fixed Surfaces (1.6)
1. Solar Radiation and Optics / Lesson 2
1.1 Solar geometry, extraterrestrial irradiance and incidence angles
- Incidence Angle on Fixed Surfaces (1.6) (follow up)
1. Solar Radiation and Optics / Lesson 3
1.1 Solar geometry, extraterrestrial irradiance and incidence angles
- Incidence angle on tracking surfaces (1.7)
- Extraterrestrial radiation on a horizontal surface (1.10)
- Ratio of beam radiation on tilted surface to that on horizontal surface (1.8)
- air mass (1.5)
1. Solar Radiation and Optics / Lesson 4
1.2 Solar radiometry, solar radiation data and solar radiation models
- Solar radiometry (2.2, 2.3, 2.4).
- Solar radiation data (2.5)
- Solar radiation models
.. atmospheric attenuation (2.6)
.. estimation of average solar radiation from sunshine hours (2.7)
.. estimation of clear sky radiation (2.8)
1. Solar Radiation and Optics / Lesson 5
1.2 Solar radiometry, solar radiation data and solar radiation models
- Solar radiation models
.. beam and diffuse components of hourly radiation (2.10)
.. beam and diffuse components of daily radiation (2.11)
.. beam and diffuse components of monthly radiation (2.12)
.. estimation of hourly radiation from daily data (2.13)
.. radiation on sloped surfaces (2.14)
1. Solar Radiation and Optics / Lesson 6
1.2 Solar radiometry, solar radiation data and solar radiation models
- Solar radiation models
.. radiation on sloped surfaces: isotropic sky (2.15)
.. radiation on sloped surfaces: anisotropic sky (2.16)
.. radiation on tracking surfaces (2.18)
1. Solar Radiation and Optics / Lesson 7
1.2 Solar radiometry, solar radiation data and solar radiation models
- Solar radiation models
.. average radiation on sloped surfaces: isotropic sky (2.19)
.. average radiation on sloped surfaces: KT method (2.20)
1.3 Utilizability
- hour and monthly average hour utilizability (2.22)
- generalized utilizability (2.23)
- daily utilizability (2.24)
1. Solar Radiation and Optics / Lesson 8
1.4 Radiation characteristics of opaque materials
- absorptance and emmitance (4.1)
- a note on Kirschhoff's law (4.2)
- reflectance (4.3)
- relashionships among absorptance, emmitance and reflectance (4.4)
- calculation of emmitance and absorptance (4.6)
1. Solar Radiation and Optics / Lesson 9
1.4 Radiation characteristics of opaque materials
- selective surfaces (4.8)
- mechanisms of selectivity (4.9)
- angular dependence of solar absorptance (4.11)
- specularly reflecting surfaces (4.13)
1.5 Radiaton Transmission through Glazing
- reflection (5.1)
1. Solar Radiation and Optics / Lesson 10
1.5 Radiaton Transmission through Glazing
- reflection (5.1) (follow up)
- absorption (5.2)
- transmission of cover systems (5.3)
- transmittance for diffuse radiation (5.4)
1. Solar Radiation and Optics / Lesson 11
1.5 Radiaton Transmission through Glazing
- transmittance spectral dependence (5.7)
- effects of surface layers on transmittance (5.8)
- transmittance-absorptance product (5.5)
- transmittance-absorptance angular dependence (5.6)
- Absorbed solar radiation (5.9)
- Monthly average absorbed radiation (5.10)
2. Solar Collectors / Lesson 12
2.0 Types of solar collector used as fixed mounted for low and medium temperatures
2.1 Flate-plate Collectors
- Description (6.1)
- Energy balance equation (6.2)
- Temperature distribution (6.3)
- Collector overal heat loss coefficient (6.4)
2. Solar Collectors / Lesson 13
2.1 Flate-plate Collectors
- Collector overall heat loss coefficient (6.4) (follow up)
- Temperature distribution between tubes and the collector efficiency factor (6.5)
2. Solar Collectors / Lesson 14
2.1 Flate-plate Collectors
- Temperature distribution in flow direction (6.6)
- Collector heat removal factor and flow factor (6.7)
- Critical radiation level (6.8)
- Mean plate and fluid temperatures (6.9)
- Effective transmittance-absorptance product (6.10)
- Effects of dust and shading (6.11)
- Stagnation temperature (6.23)
2. Solar Collectors / Lesson 15
2.1 Flate-plate Collectors
- Heat capacity effects in flat-plate colletctors (6.12)
- Liquid heater plate geometries (6.13)
- Collector Characterizations (6.16)
- Collector tests: efficiency, incidence angle modifier and time constant (6.17)
- Certification and testing data sheets
2. Solar Collectors / Lesson 16
2.2 Concentrating Solar Collectors
- Configurations (7.1)
- Concentration limits (7.2)
- Concentration of diffuse radiation
- Thermal performance (7.3)
- Compound Parabolic Concentrators (CPC)
.. The CPC (7.6)
.. Truncation (7.6)
.. Orientation and absorbed energy (7.7)
.. Performance (7.8) (if possible)
Lesson 17
. Presentation of the 1st Homeworks