This study investigated the performance of machine learning techniques as compared to the
empirical models to forecast the global solar radiation in Limpopo regions. The machine
learning techniques used in this study are ...
Challenges in utilising fossil fuels for generating energy call for the use
of renewable energy. This study focuses on modelling and forecasting
solar energy and optimum tilt angle of solar energy acceptance using
historical ...
Hematite has attracted research interest for many years due to its application in water splitting. Despite its attractive characters such as a reasonable optical band gap, the semiconductor is still faced with great ...
Background: Heat energy is essential for the anaerobic digestion of organic materials such as household, human or agricultural waste. Many developing countries have witnessed efforts to implement anaerobic digestion ...
The research mainly focused on the determination of global solar radiation using temperature-based model by Hargreaves and Samani for the Northern regions of Limpopo Province of South Africa. The daily maximum and minimum ...
Knowledge of the amount of solar radiation available in a location is important for solar energy systems, architectural designs, agronomy, and installation of pyranometers. Some developing countries do not have good quality ...
The sun is the most important source of renewable energy today. Producing energy from sunlight using cheap, abundant and non-toxic materials is considered a major challenge in the field of solar-electrical energy conversion. ...
Perovskite-based solar cells (PSC) is the fastest growing solar technology to date since inception in 2009. This technology has invigorated the photovoltaic (PV) community. While it has taken 15-42 years for traditional ...
Dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) have attracted rapid interest over the recent years with prospect of emerging as a viable alternative to conventional silicon based solar cells. The photoanode of DSSCs comprises of dye ...
The knowledge of solar radiation in this dispensation is crucial. The lack of grid lines in the remote rural areas of South Africa necessitates the use of solar energy as an alternative energy resource. Solar radiation ...
Currently the dye sensitized solar cells have attracted more attention due to their low cost, transparency and flexibility. These types of solar cells use the dye molecule adsorbed on TiO2 semiconductor in Nano architecture ...
Titanium dioxide (TiO2) is considered to be an ideal semiconductor for photocatalysis because of its high stability, low cost and safety towards both humans and the environment. Doping TiO2 with different elements has ...
Understanding how and why superconductivity (SC) occurs in a given material has been
very challenging for physicists for more than a hundred years, notwithstanding the major
milestones, such as the London theory, the ...
Since the discovery of water photolysis on a TiO2 electrode by Fujishima and Honda
in 1972, TiO2 has attracted extensive attention as an ideal photocatalytic material
because of its excellent properties such as high ...