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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Edgar Abreu

Citation names

  • Abreu, Edgar F.M.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
3313-6E35-F40B
ORCID iD
0000-0002-7195-1677

Email addresses

  • eabreu@uevora.pt (Professional)
  • edgarfmabreu@gmail.com (Personal)

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2016 - 2023
Concluded
 Engenharia Mecatrónica e Energia (Doutoramento)
Major in Energia
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
"Direct Normal Irradiance and circumsolar radiation: modelling, measurement and impact on Concentrating Solar Power" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2016
Concluded
 Engenharia da Energia Solar (Mestrado)
Major in Sem especialização
Universidade de Évora Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
"Avaliação do recurso solar e modelação de um sistema de energia fotovoltaica ligado à rede elétrica da Ilha da Madeira" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2010 - 2014
Concluded
 Engenharia de Energias Renováveis (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2018/11 - 2022/10 Direct Normal Irradiance Modelling and circumsolar radiation: modelling, measurement and impact on Concentrating Solar Power
SFRH/BD/136433/2018
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2016/08 - 2018/10 Medição e avaliação da radiação solar directa no Alentejo: a sua interação com efeitos atmosféricos locais e as respectivas implicações no mapeamento regional deste recurso energético (DNI-A)
ALT20-03-0145-FEDER-000011
 Alentejo 2020, Portugal 2020, Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional
Outputs

Publications

Conference paper
  1. Pereira, S.; Abreu, E.; Iakunin, M.; Canhoto, P.; Salgado, R.; Pereira, Sara; Abreu, Edgar F.M.; et al. "Prediction of Solar Resource and Photovoltaic Energy Production through the Generation of a Typical Meteorological Year and Meso-NH Simulations: Application to the South of Portugal". 2019.
    10.1109/REPE48501.2019.9025118
  2. Abreu, Edgar. "Circumsolar irradiance modelling using libRadtran and AERONET data". 2019.
    10.1063/1.5117698
Conference poster
  1. Abreu, Edgar. "Circumsolar Irradiance Modelling Using LibRadtran and AERONET Data". 2018.
    10.13140/RG.2.2.23828.96648
  2. Abreu, Edgar; Abreu, Edgar F.M.; Canhoto, Paulo; Costa, Maria João. "Direct Normal Irradiance and circumsolar radiation: modelling, measurement and impact on Concentrating Solar Power". 2017.
Journal article
  1. Edgar F.M. Abreu; Paulo Canhoto; Maria João Costa. "Prediction of Circumsolar Irradiance and Its Impact on CSP Systems under Clear Skies". Energies (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/en16247950.
    10.3390/en16247950
  2. Edgar F. M. Abreu; Christian A. Gueymard; Paulo Canhoto; Maria João Costa. "Performance assessment of clear-sky solar irradiance predictions using state-of-the-art radiation models and input atmospheric data from reanalysis or ground measurements". Solar Energy (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2023.01.051.
    10.1016/j.solener.2023.01.051
  3. Sara Pereira; Edgar F. M. Abreu; Maksim Iakunin; Afonso Cavaco; Rui Salgado; Paulo Canhoto. "Method for solar resource assessment using numerical weather prediction and artificial neural network models based on typical meteorological data: Application to the south of Portugal". Solar Energy (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2022.03.003.
    10.1016/j.solener.2022.03.003
  4. Maksim Iakunin; Edgar F. M. Abreu; Paulo Canhoto; Sara Pereira; Rui Salgado. "Impact of a large artificial lake on regional climate: A typical meteorological year Meso-NH simulation results". International Journal of Climatology (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.7299.
    10.1002/joc.7299
  5. Edgar F.M. Abreu; Paulo Canhoto; Maria João Costa; Abreu, Edgar; Canhoto, Paulo; Costa, Maria João. "Development of a clear-sky model to determine circumsolar irradiance using widely available solar radiation data". Solar Energy 205 (2020): 88-101. https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.solener.2020.05.010.
    10.1016/j.solener.2020.05.010
  6. Elena Carra; Aitor Marzo; Jesús Ballestrín; Jesús Polo; Javier Barbero; Joaquín Alonso-Montesinos; Rafael Monterreal; et al. "Atmospheric extinction levels of solar radiation using aerosol optical thickness satellite data. Validation methodology with measurement system". Renewable Energy 149 (2020): 1120-1132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2019.10.106.
    10.1016/j.renene.2019.10.106
  7. Hugo Gonçalves Silva; Edgar F.M. Abreu; Francis M. Lopes; Afonso Cavaco; Paulo Canhoto; Jorge Neto; Manuel Collares-Pereira. "Solar Irradiation Data Processing using estimator MatriceS (SIMS) validated for Portugal (southern Europe)". Renewable Energy 147 (2020): 515-528. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2019.09.009.
    10.1016/j.renene.2019.09.009
  8. Abreu, Edgar; Abreu, Edgar F.M.; Canhoto, Paulo; Costa, Maria João. "Prediction of diffuse horizontal irradiance using a new climate zone model". Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2019.04.055.
    10.1016/j.rser.2019.04.055
  9. Abreu, Edgar F.M.; Canhoto, Paulo; Costa, Maria João. "Circumsolar irradiance modelling using libRadtran and AERONET data". (2019): http://hdl.handle.net/10174/27145.
    https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5117698
  10. Abreu, Edgar F.M.; Canhoto, Paulo; Costa, Maria João. "Circumsolar irradiance modelling using libRadtran and AERONET data". (2019): https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5117698.
    https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5117698
  11. Edgar F.M. Abreu; Paulo Canhoto; Victor Prior; R. Melicio; Abreu, Edgar F.M.; Canhoto, Paulo; Prior, Victor; Melicio, R.. "Solar resource assessment through long-term statistical analysis and typical data generation with different time resolutions using GHI measurements". Renewable Energy (2018): https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.renene.2018.04.068.
    10.1016/j.renene.2018.04.068
Report
  1. Abreu, Edgar F.M.. 2016. Tratamento de dados associados com a radiação solar fornecidos pelo Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Madeira. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/19214.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Abreu, Edgar Francisco Mendes. "Avaliação do recurso solar e modelação de um sistema de energia fotovoltaica ligado à rede elétrica da Ilha da Madeira". Master, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/18417.

Other

Other output
  1. Comparison and assessment of circumsolar ratio models for Évora, Portugal. The sun rays are scattered due to molecules, aerosols and some cloud types, such as cirrus clouds, and a region near to the vicinity of the sun disk, known as circumsolar region, with relatively high diffuse sky radiance is formed [1]. Consequently, this diffuse radiation is called circumsolar normal irradiance (CSNI). Modelling the CSNI is important because pyrheliometers (the instruments that ar. 2020. Abreu, Edgar F.M.; Canhoto, Paulo; Costa, Maria João. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/27151.
  2. Modifying a pyrheliometer to measure direct normal and circumsolar irradiance. Direct normal irradiance (DNI) is key to concentrating solar power (CSP) systems energy generation. However, pyrheliometric measurements of DNI also include a circumsolar normal irradiance (CSNI) component because the aperture angle of the instrument is larger than the sun disk. CSNI is due to the scattering of the sun rays by molecules, aerosols and some cloud types such as cirrus clouds [1]. As. 2019. Abreu, Edgar F.M.; Canhoto, Paulo; Costa, Maria João. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/27082.
  3. Circumsolar Irradiance Modelling Using LibRadtran and AERONET Data. In this work, the monochromatic circumsolar irradiance (at 675 nm) is modelled using libRadtran and AERONET data at Évora, Portugal, for selected cases representing the 1st, 25th, 50th and 75th percentiles of the aerosol optical depth (AOD) measurements distribution at 675 nm and a maximum value of AOD registered during a Saharan dust outbreak in February 2017. Since there are no measurements of c. 2018. Abreu, Edgar F.M.; Canhoto, Paulo; Costa, Maria João. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/23578.
  4. Simulation of Direct normal Irradiance (DNI) in Portugal with the Meso-NH Model. Several Case Studies. Simulations of short-term forecasts of DNI with the Meso-NH model.. COMPETE 2020 (Operational Program Competitiveness and Internationalization) through the ICT (UID/GEO/04683/2013, POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007690), DNI-A (ALT20-03-0145-FEDER-000011) and ALOP (ALT20-03-0145-FEDER-000004) projects. 2017. Lopes, Francisco; Abreu, Edgar; Cavaco, Afonso; Salgado, Rui; Silva, Hugo; Canhoto, Paulo; Costa, Maria João; et al. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/24012.
  5. Contribution to the diffuse radiation modelling in Évora, Portugal. Solar radiation data is crucial for the design of energy systems based on the solar resource. Since diffuse radiation measurements are not always available in the archive data series, either due to the inexistence of measuring equipment, shading device misplacement or missing data, models to generate these data are needed. In this work, one year of hourly and daily horizontal solar global and diff. 2016. Abreu, Edgar F.M.; Canhoto, Paulo; Costa, Maria João. http://www.wes2016.ict.uevora.pt/.
  6. Assessment of PV Systems Performance in the Madeira Island Using Typical Meteorological Year Data. This paper focus on the development of an algorithm using Matlab to generate Typical Meteorological Years from weather data of eight locations in the Madeira Island and to predict the energy generation of photovoltaic systems based on solar cells modelling. Solar cells model includes the effect of ambient temperature and wind speed. The analysis of the PV system performance is carried out through. 2016. Abreu, Edgar F.M.; Canhoto, Paulo; Prior, Victor; Melício, Rui. http://cetc2016.isel.pt/.
  7. Determination of a Mean Solar Radiation Year and of a Typical Meteorological Year for the region of Funchal in the Madeira Island. This paper presents the determination of a mean solar radiation year and of a typical meteorological year for the region of Funchal in the Madeira Island, Portugal. The data set includes hourly mean and extreme values for air temperature, relative humidity and wind speed and hourly mean values for solar global and diffuse radiation for the period 2004-2014, with maximum data coverage of 99.7%. The. 2016. Abreu, Edgar; Canhoto, Paulo; Prior, Victor; Melício, Rui. http://www.ucm.es/9asamblea_gg/.