PURPOSE Risk functions can help general practitioners identify patients at high cardiovascular
risk, but overprediction inevitably leads to a disproportionate number of patients being …

The world population is growing by 1 billion people every 10 years. There will come a time
when there will be more people to feed but less land to grow food. Greenhouses can be the …

In this paper, we focus on the variation of the transmittance of the receiver glass envelope as
a function of the incidence angle and we measure its impact on the annual optical efficiency …

Stand-alone photovoltaic systems usually use batteries to adjust energy yield to energy
demand. An alternative energy storage system for stand-alone photovoltaic installations is …

This paper analyses the possible applications of medium temperature solar concentration
technologies, Compound Parabolic Collector, Linear Fresnel Collector and Parabolic Trough …

The design of solar power plants and the operating principles are learned by engineering
students during the last academic year. Typically, this subject is taught using the traditional …

Thermal energy for industrial processes can be generated using thermal (ST) or photovoltaic
(PV) solar energy. ST energy has traditionally been the most favorable option due to its cost …

Most technoeconomic feasibility studies of photovoltaic (PV) systems with batteries are mainly
focused on the load demand, PV system profiles, total system costs, electricity price, and …

Many of the available solar radiation databases only provide global horizontal irradiance (GHI)
while there is a growing need of extensive databases of direct normal radiation (DNI) …

It is very unusual to have global irradiance data for a tilted surface and even more for a
surface with a perfect sun tracking. The most common available data is the global horizontal …