Solar Radiation Potential: Modeling, Measurement, and Utilization

Quantifying solar energy resource in any location of interest is essential for designing a location specific solar energy based desalination system. Procedures for estimating sun-earth geometric relations, solar angles, extra-terrestrial radiation intensity, and terrestrial radiation intensity over horizontal and tilted surfaces have been presented. Details about solar radiation spectrum, various solar radiation collection devices and solar radiation measuring instruments have been explained briefly.