Confidence interval computation method for dynamic performance evaluations of solar thermal collectors

摘要

For the further development and dissemination of solar thermal technology, a continuous demonstration of its reliability is required. For this purpose, meaningful performance and acceptance testing is indispensable. The reliable determination of optical and thermal collector performance parameters involves a suitable testing and evaluation procedure. It additionally requires a dependable quality assessment of the test results. Sophisticated statistical inference calculations, however, are not commonly available in solar thermal collector testing. If applied at all, mostly standardly implemented (linear) confidence interval computations are used.