Presenting a plan for buildings with solar panels by obtaining optimal angles for different months of the year to increase the amount of electricity production

Subject Areas : environmental management

parya Shafipouryourdshahi ¹ (Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Technical and Vocational University (TVU), Tehran, Iran. *(Corresponding Author))
Hossein Soleimani ² (Assistant Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Technical and Vocational University (TVU), Tehran, Iran.)
Mehdi Soleymani Gharagol ³ (Department of Civil Engineering, Technical and Vocational University (TVU), Tehran, Iran.)

Received: 2023-02-12 Accepted : 2023-05-30 Published : 2023-09-23

Keywords: solar panels, Efficiency, optimal angle, architecture, Building,

Abstract :

Background and Objective: Nowadays, the design, architecture and urban beautification by solar panels to absorb clean energy that leads to the reduction of greenhouse gases and environmental pollution have attracted the attention of architects and engineers. In this article, due to the importance of the subject, a model is presented to obtain the most optimal angle of the panels to obtain the highest efficiency, so that the highest possible efficiency can be obtained by examining the different angles of placing the panels towards the sun in different components of the building.Material and Methodology: The current research is applied in terms of purpose and has a quantitative approach. In this article, a 2 kW power plant, separated from the electricity distribution network, located in Almanabad area of Urmia city, has been selected, and by entering its specifications in the PVsyst software and performing simulation, the information related to the produced energy for all months has been examined.Findings: The results show that The results showed that installing solar panels in different parts of the building with optimal angles creates the highest efficiency in all months. The comparison of the efficiency calculated in the optimal angles extracted from the software and the practical efficiency in the sample power distribution plant shows that the energy produced in both cases has a slight difference, which shows the confirmation of the simulations.Discussion and Conclusion: If the solar panels are set at the most optimal possible angle every month, they will have 5.8% more efficiency than the fixed state during a year. Therefore, in this research, various plans for urban design and beautification by solar panels are suggested, which in addition to maintaining efficiency, have a suitable design in terms of Iranian architecture.

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