Parametric study and cost analysis of a solar-heating-and-cooling system for detached single-family households in hot climates
dc.contributor.author | Arsalis, A. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Alexandrou, Andreas N. | en |
dc.creator | Arsalis, A. | en |
dc.creator | Alexandrou, Andreas N. | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-05-06T12:23:20Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-05-06T12:23:20Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://gnosis.library.ucy.ac.cy/handle/7/48218 | |
dc.description.abstract | A solar-heating-and-cooling (SHC) system, consisting of a flat-plate solar collector array, a hot water storage tank, and an absorption chiller unit is designed and modeled to satisfy thermal loads (space heating, domestic hot water, and space cooling). The system is applied for Nicosia, Cyprus, a location with prolonged summer-like conditions, where heating demand is moderate, while space cooling demand is comparatively very high. The study investigates the potential of a solar system installed and operated onsite in a detached single-family household to satisfy all necessary thermal loads. The hot water storage tank is also connected to an auxiliary heater (diesel-fired boiler) to supplement solar heating, when needed. The main purpose of the study is to model the overall system and contact a parametric study that will determine the optimum economic system performance in terms of design parameters. The system is compared, through a cost analysis, to an electric heat pump (EHP) system. It is found that the optimum system combination of solar collector area and volumetric capacity of the hot water storage tank is 70m2 and 2000L, respectively. The total annualized cost (in USD) for the optimum SHC system is $3,719. The sensitivity analysis showed that the SHC system would be unfavorable to compete with EHP technology, if the solar collector cost is above $360/m2. © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.source | Solar Energy | en |
dc.subject | Sensitivity analysis | en |
dc.subject | performance assessment | en |
dc.subject | Costs | en |
dc.subject | Cost benefit analysis | en |
dc.subject | Cost accounting | en |
dc.subject | Water | en |
dc.subject | Absorption cooling | en |
dc.subject | Cooling systems | en |
dc.subject | Heating | en |
dc.subject | Water absorption | en |
dc.subject | absorption | en |
dc.subject | Absorption chiller | en |
dc.subject | Absorption chillers | en |
dc.subject | Air conditioning | en |
dc.subject | cooling | en |
dc.subject | Cost analysis | en |
dc.subject | cost-benefit analysis | en |
dc.subject | Heat pump systems | en |
dc.subject | Parametric study | en |
dc.subject | Refrigerators | en |
dc.subject | Solar air-conditioning | en |
dc.subject | Solar collector | en |
dc.subject | Solar collectors | en |
dc.subject | Solar energy | en |
dc.subject | Solar heating | en |
dc.subject | Solar heating and cooling | en |
dc.subject | solar power | en |
dc.subject | Tanks (containers) | en |
dc.subject | Thermal load | en |
dc.title | Parametric study and cost analysis of a solar-heating-and-cooling system for detached single-family households in hot climates | en |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.solener.2015.04.024 | |
dc.description.volume | 117 | |
dc.description.startingpage | 59 | |
dc.description.endingpage | 73 | |
dc.author.faculty | Πολυτεχνική Σχολή / Faculty of Engineering | |
dc.author.department | Τμήμα Μηχανικών Μηχανολογίας και Κατασκευαστικής / Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering | |
dc.type.uhtype | Article | en |
dc.description.totalnumpages | 59-73 |
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