Staff Members - Benha University
Comments on “Classification of solar radiation zones and general models for estimating the daily global solar radiation on horizontal surfaces in China’’, by Liu et al. [Energy Conversion and Management, 2017.10.043.]
Energy Conversion and Management • 2018
Publication Information
Authors
S G. Gouda, Q. Yuan
Keywords
Solar energy
Global solar radiation
Empirical models
China
Solar energy, Solar climatic zoning
Journal
Energy Conversion and Management
Publisher
Elsevier
Volume
168
Issue
Not Available
Pages
651-652
publication.type
International
Paper Link
Open Link
Supplementary Materials
Not Available
Abstract
This study presents some comments on paper “Classification of solar radiation zones and general models for
estimating the daily global solar radiation on horizontal surfaces in China’’, [Energy Conversion and
Management, 2017.10.043.] proposed by Liu et al. (2017). In their paper, the selected 4 models were studied
before by Almorox and Hontoria (2004) in Spain and they did not present all discussion of their results which
indicated that the cubic model gave a slight improve rather than the quadratic and linear models. The proposed
general global solar radiation model is not new, it was developed and evaluated before by Rensheng et al.
(2006).
estimating the daily global solar radiation on horizontal surfaces in China’’, [Energy Conversion and
Management, 2017.10.043.] proposed by Liu et al. (2017). In their paper, the selected 4 models were studied
before by Almorox and Hontoria (2004) in Spain and they did not present all discussion of their results which
indicated that the cubic model gave a slight improve rather than the quadratic and linear models. The proposed
general global solar radiation model is not new, it was developed and evaluated before by Rensheng et al.
(2006).