SET Proceedings 2978-4387 Caravel Press 10.65582/set.2002.012 2002.012 A Theoretical Computation of Optimum Tilt Angle of Solar Collector QiuGuoquan Guoquan.Qiu@nottingham.ac.uk WangXiaolin ChenJianxin Dept of Thermal Science & Energy Engineering, University of Science & Technology of China, No.96, Jinzhai Road, Hefei City, 230027, P.R.China 12062002 1 978-1-995850-07-8 1 6 12 June 2002 © 2002 Copyright WSSET 2002

The aims of solar collectors or concentrators are to collect as much as solar radiation energy, so vertical incident to solar collectors is expected.It leads to the existion of optimum tilt angle of solar collectors as well as the reasonable design of solar collectors.This paper presents a novel and general calculation method about optimum tilt angle of solar collectors by means of a clear-day solar radiation model. Optimum tilt angle yearly,semiyearly in summer months and semiyearly in winter months,respectively,23 world famous cities are presented for references.

 12 to 14 June 2002 1st International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies SET2002 1 Porto, Portugal