Estimating Global Solar Radiation
for Tunceli City using ANFIS
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- Dicle Üniversitesi Mühendislik Fakültesi Mühendislik Dergisi
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Abstract (2. Language):
Because of the high cost of measurement equipment
and their maintenance, global solar radiation
measurement is not always implemented. Hence,
several forecasting approaches based on fuzzy sets,
artificial intelligence or soft computing are
proposed to forecast global solar radiation owing to
being less cost. However, it is vital to select the most
suitable approach for a specific purpose and region.
In this study, the adaptive-network based fuzzy
inference systems (ANFIS) is proposed to forecast
monthly mean daily global solar radiation for
Tunceli, Turkey.
The monthly data between 1990 and 2010 is used for
the proposed approach. The data was obtained from
provincial directorate of meteorology of Tunceli.
According to the gathered data, the highest value of
monthly average daily global solar radiation was
measured as 5.218 kWh/m² in the year of 1993. The
lowest one with a value of 3.905 kWh/m² belongs to
the year of 1997. Similarly, the highest value of
monthly average daily sunshine duration was
measured as 8.71 hours in the year of 1993. The
lowest one with a value of 6.64 hours belongs to the
year of 2009. When the data is analysed on a
monthly basis, the highest value of monthly average
daily global solar radiation was measured as 7.409
kWh/m² in the month of June. The lowest one with a
value of 1.762 kWh/m² belongs to the month of
December. Similarly, the highest value of monthly
average daily sunshine duration was measured as 12
hours in the month of July. The lowest one with a
value of 3.1 hours belongs to the month of
December.
The experiments were applied in MATLAB 7
package software in order to obtain the optimum
network architecture. In this network, there are 3
inputs (months, years and monthly average daily
sunshine duration) and 1 output (the estimation of
the monthly average daily global solar radiation).
The ANFIS proposed in this study has Gaussian
membership function and twenty fuzzy rules are
used. The number of the data points (monthly
average daily global solar radiation measurement)
is 245. As a performance measure of the ANFIS
network, the mean absolute percentage error
(MAPE) was used. In testing stage, the MAPE was
obtained as 6.365 which is quite well for this type of
problem. The coefficient of determination (RSquared)
value was calculated as 0.999 which is
significantly high. The highly successful results show
the success of the fuzzy based methodology of ANFIS
which provides estimations of global solar radiation
successfully.
The presented approach shows that the ANFIS
illustrates promising in the forecasting of monthly
mean daily global solar radiation using available
data. Future studies to estimate the monthly mean
global solar radiation of Tunceli city with greater
accuracy can be achieved using more apparent
meteorological input parameters and different
artificial intelligence techniques like artificial neural
networks, autoregressive moving average methods
or support vector machines. These methods can be
improved for available models of daily and hourly
estimation of global solar radiation.
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Abstract (Original Language):
Ölçüm araçları ve bakımlarının yüksek maliyetlerinden dolayı, global güneş radyasyonu ölçümü her zaman
uygulanmamaktadır. Bu nedenden dolayı, daha az maliyetli global güneş radyasyonu tahmin etmek için
bulanık, yapay zeka ve yazılım hesaplama tabanlı farklı tahmin teknikleri önerilmiştir. Fakat özel bir amaca
ve bölge için en uygun yaklaşımı seçmek çok önemli olmaktadır.
Bu çalışmada Tunceli ili için aylık ortalama günlük global güneş radyasyonunu tahmin etmek için adaptif ağ
tabanlı bulanık çıkarım sistemi (Adaptive-Network Based Fuzzy Inference Systems) yaklaşımı önerilmiştir.
Önerilen yaklaşım için 1990-2010 yılları arasındaki aylık veriler kullanılmıştır. Önerilen yaklaşım, adaptif
ağ tabanlı bulanık çıkarım sistemi, mevcut verileri kullanarak aylık ortalama günlük global güneş
radyasyonunu tahmin etmede iyi sonuçlar verdiğini göstermektedir.
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