Author(s)

Mahamat Hassane Babikir^1*, Donatien Njomo¹, Mahmoud Y. Khayal², Hermann D. Temene¹, Djampou T. Joel¹

¹Environmental Energy Technologies Laboratory (EETL) Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
²National Center of Research and Development (NCRD), University of N’Djamena, N’Djamena, Chad.

The aim of this paper is to estimate the direct solar radiation on a horizontal plane in five regions of Chad using the Liu and Jordan’s model in view of the installation of a thermo-solar power plant. For this purpose, the HelioClim-3 Data Base of Solar Irradiance V5’s is used. All the results presented in this paper were obtained using Microsoft Excel software 2015. These results show that compared to the other regions considered for this study, the direct solar radiation on a horizontal plane in Moundou is less.

Direct Solar Radiation, Inclined Plane, Excel, HelioClim-3, Chad

Hassane Babikir, M. , Njomo, D. , Y. Khayal, M. , D. Temene, H. and T. Joel, D. (2018) Estimation of Direct Solar Radiation of Chad. Energy and Power Engineering, 10, 212-225. doi: 10.4236/epe.2018.105015.