Subject:Presentation TitleEngineering

Renewable Energy -1
Chapter : Solar Energy and its application
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Topic : Numerical of Local Solar time
• Comic Sans MS Numerical of Day length

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. Local Solar time or Local Apparent time

So final equation of LST or LAT,

LST or LAT = IST ± [(𝑳𝒔𝒕 - 𝑳𝒍𝒐𝒄𝒂𝒍 ) * 4] + E

Where, E = Equation of time correction in minutes

𝐿𝑠𝑡 = standard meridian for local time zone
𝐿𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑙 = longitude of the location in degree West or East

Here + sign is for Western Hemisphere

- sign is for Eastern Hemisphere

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. Numerical of LST or LAT
Calculate Local Apparent time corresponding to 16:00 hours Indian standard
time on 10th June, a location Ahmedabad (72.5714 E longitude). Also calculate
the hour angle for the same. Take E = 1:15.

Data given:

IST = 16:00 hours

N = 31 + 28 + 31 + 30 + 31 + 10 = 161 days
Llocal = 72.57140 E
Lst = 82.50
E = 1:15 = 1 minute and 15 seconds

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. Numerical of LST or LAT
Now LST or LAT,

LST or LAT = IST ± [(𝑳𝒔𝒕 - 𝑳𝒍𝒐𝒄𝒂𝒍 ) * 4] + E

= 16 hours – [(82.50 - 72.57140 ) * 4] + 1 minute & 15 s

= 16 hours – [9.9286 * 4] + 1 m & 15 s

= 16 hours – [39.7174 minute] + 1 m & 15 s

= 15 h and 60 m – [39 m & 43 s] + 1 m & 15 s

= 15 h & 20 m & 17 s + 1 m & 15 s

LST or LAT= 15 h & 21 m & 32 s

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. Numerical of LST or LAT
Now hour angle,

ω = (12:00 – 15.3588) * 15

= -3.3588 * 15

= -50.382 (minus sign for the afternoon)

ω = −𝟓𝟎. 𝟐𝟑𝟎

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. Numerical of Day length
The latitude of Srinagar is 340 . Find day length in hrs. When sunlight is
available on 1st July.

Data given:

Latitude = Ø = 340
N = 31 + 28 + 31 + 30 + 31 + 30 + 1 = 182

For the day length,

Td = 2× ω/15

So ω is needed to be found out for calculation of day length.

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. Numerical of Day length
Now,

ω = 𝒄𝒐𝒔−𝟏 (− 𝒕𝒂𝒏 Ø × 𝒕𝒂𝒏 𝜹 )

𝛿 is needed to be found out first.

δ = 23.45 * sin [360 / 365 * (284 + N)]

= 23.45 * sin [360 / 365 * (284 + 182)]
= 23.45 * sin [ 459.6164 ]
= 23.45 * 0.9859

δ = 𝟐𝟑. 𝟏𝟐𝟎

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.Now,
Numerical of Day length

ω = 𝒄𝒐𝒔−𝟏 (− 𝒕𝒂𝒏 Ø × 𝒕𝒂𝒏 𝜹 )

= 𝑐𝑜𝑠 −1 (− 𝑡𝑎𝑛 34 × 𝑡𝑎𝑛 23.12)

= 𝑐𝑜𝑠 −1 (−0.2879)

ω = 106.73

Now,
Td = 2× ω/15

= 2 × 106.73/15
= 14.23 hrs
Td = 14 hrs and 14 minutes
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