The use of solar energy for domestic water heating and space heating has proved to be viable. Space cooling is another promising avenue for utilization of solar energy. Solar operated absorption air-conditioning systems, in different situations, have been found to be feasible. Such systems can...

The all-sky meteorological radiation model is a broadband solar-radiation estimation model that uses synoptic and sunshine information. The original model due to Muneer-Gul-Kambezidis was improved using regressions based on the sunshine fraction to increase the accuracy of the estimation of...

A detailed numerical simulation model is developed for a commercially available solar absorption chiller. The model incorporates the performance data of a Yazaki-manufactured water-cooled system. We take into consideration the variation of the COP and cooling water temperature. Using a summer...

Commerical solar absorption systems are now available for residential space cooling purposes. We have undertaken a cost analysis, based on a detailed simulation procedure, of a two-ton system to cool a proposed residence in Kufra, Libya. The meteorological data used for this study are measured...

Building simulation programmes need detailed hour-by-hour weather data. In the absence of measured irradiation and illuminance data, validated meteorological radiation and illuminance models may be used. These models are primarily based on the estimation of solar-beam attenuation through the...

An analysis of the temperature stratification inside an Integrated Collector Storage Solar Water Heater (ICS-SWH) was carried out. The system takes the form of a rectangular-shaped box incorporating the solar collector and storage tank into a single unit and was optimised for simulation in...

Clear-sky data need to be extracted from all-sky measured solar-irradiance dataset, often by using algorithms that rely on other measured meteorological parameters. Current procedures for clear-sky data extraction have been examined and compared with each other to determine their reliability and...