ENERGY EFFICIENCY CART MODELING OF SOLAR ENERGY COLLECTORS BY GENETIC PROGRAMMING.

A uniquely constructed technical solution of a solar energy collector is presented in this paper. It presents a great breakthrough in the field of energy efficiency and successful exploitation of renewable energy sources. The principle of this high-temperature energy storage enables the energy accumulated from the sun to be yielded when necessary and continuously, 24 hours a day and 365 days a year. Furthermore, this paper contains a modeling of Sun irradiance, generated energy intensity for flat solar panel and for a newly developed concentrator. The modeling is made with genetic programming which is found to be a suitable method for modeling energy intensity. It offers the results which are within the acceptable tolerances while maintaining the ease of use and short computational time. Genetic programming yielded the results of 12.97, 14.6 and 9.25% average percent error for the irradiance, the flat solar panel and the novel solar concentrator, respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]