By Alyce Powell


Systems modeling software is an application that has the ability to resize a region for a particular task to be made on it. For such an application to function efficiently and effectively, some of the most important factors that it should focus and expound accordingly are the budgetary allocated for energy and the very factors that may affect the functionality of this kind of system that are essential. It finds use both in building and energy generation.

During the sizing of a structure, a building or a region, the person carrying out this whole operation puts all climatic and environmental factors into consideration. These organizations go as far of obtaining information from institutions such as the NASA to get to know more on the weather conditions of a place. Of their importance is the amount and intensity of solar radiation. The cost of production and all this process can also be approximated.

It is proven that amount of incident solar radiations differ from one place to another. Its intensity also differs then. As one moves from a lake region deep to the main land the solar intensity changes drastically. Around the lake the radiation is extremely high with a lot of heat energy as compared to that of a mainland. Therefore this differing rates of solar energy as one moves from one place to another dictates that after a model has been properly demonstrated.

Designer models for solar tapping have a lot of factors to look into. The duration of service rendered by the application for example need a close scrutiny. Other variables arise from the very batteries to be used. The duration of charging state to that of discharge state in unquestionable and has to be focused on. Temperature though environmental has an effect as well.

Real structures need maintenance and repair because they wear out with time. The designed structures must always depict the same. A used battery cannot at any given time perform as efficiently as a new one. This puts more work on the designers to find solutions to counter this unavoidable short coming. This issue has to be addressed during the design stage otherwise the same situation will be transferred to the main structure.

On finding the amount of solar energy this solar panel structure can harness in a specific locality, it should be put up in that region and coded in such a way that it produces the same energy as specified. It should be programmed so as to enable it generate the same power even on a cloudy day. This way its users are not affected on such extreme weather days.

Apart from designing it to cope with unexpected weather conditions, such structures should be able to with stand longer duration of such unfavorable weather conditions. Even though this coping mechanism can result in damaging or malfunctioning of the battery, it must at all times serve its purpose.

In its applications in solar energy harnessing, systems modeling software has brought a lot of changes. Weather in bad or good weather relative to the operating conditions of a solar panel one can find energy for lighting and other applications. Sizing and modeling has now been made easier thanks to this application.




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