The horizontal coordinates indicate the time of day in hours; the vertical coordinates indicate the solar collector tilt angle in degrees; the different curves indicate the first day of the different months. The location is 37° N and 122° E. The solar azimuth is counted from due north, and 180° indicates due south.
During the period from the vernal equinox to the autumnal equinox, the optimal tilt angle of the day is greater than the solar tilt angle at noon. This means that during the summer and surrounding months, the inclination of the solar collector should be as small as possible for receiving more top-to-bottom irradiation.
The tilt angle corresponding to the maximum sum of Ht is the optimal tilt angle of the solar collector used in that period. In the following calculations, it is assumed that the collectors are installed on a concrete ground and the albedo of the ground is 0.22 .
The problem of solving the optimal pointing angle of a solar collector is transformed into a mathematical problem: the maximum cumulative projection from on . The cumulative amount received in a period can be expressed as follows: where is the total tme. Then the problem is transformed into solving the value of when gets the maximum value.
The results show that for daily fixed solar collectors, the altitude angle of the collector should be about 6° above the noon solar altitude angle in summer and 6° lower in winter. For annual fixed collectors, the tilt angle should be slightly higher than the latitude.
To provide guidance for fixed installation angles of solar collectors around the world, a refined theoretical model is proposed. This model mainly considers the Kepler motion of the Sun [ 22, 24, 25, 26 ]. This motion can be transformed and then described by the local coordinate system.
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