Optimum Analysis of Energy Conversion for Solar Water Heating System

Author

Bin Yang ; Zhao, Jun ; Lu, Suzhen ; Zhu, Qiang

Author_Institution

Sch. of Mech. Eng., Tianjin Univ., Tianjin, China

fYear

2010

fDate

25-27 June 2010

Firstpage

5380

Lastpage

5383

Abstract

Based on the principle of thermodynamics and heat and mass transfer, a set of mathematical models on solar water heating system are founded. Solar water heating system (SWHS) is simulated by TRNSYS software to investigate whole-year transient performance of system. Different factors, such as collector area, tank volume, load temperature, shelter, daily hot water consumption pattern, are analyzed in order to attain optimized design parameters for SWHS, which will have a profound significance for improving system performance. The results, referring to evaluating the SWHS, present a reference for design and assemblage of the high-performance SWHS.

Keywords

heat transfer; mass transfer; power engineering computing; solar heating; solar power; thermodynamics; TRNSYS software; energy conversion; heat transfer; mass transfer; optimized design parameters; optimum analysis; solar water heating system; thermodynamics; transient performance; Optimization; Solar heating; Solar system; Space heating; Storage tanks; Water heating; solar water heating system; system model; trnsys;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Control Engineering (ICECE), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6880-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/iCECE.2010.1306

Filename

5630568