Abstract :
This work explores the possibility to perform heating and air-conditioning of state of the art building located near Paris in France.
For air-conditioning, enhanced compound parabolic solar collectors are used as a heat source of an adsorption system (methanol/activated
carbon), while during winter direct coupling with the building is performed.
A model describing the adsorption unit, the solar collectors and the house was used to simulate the performances of such an
installation.
For air-conditioning, thermal comfort is achieved as indoor temperature is kept below 25 C during five consecutive hot days (heat
wave effect), contrarily to the case for which only free-cooling during nighttime is used. For heating, the indoor temperature remains
below the comfort temperature value by 2 K. Nevertheless, the auxiliary heating need will remain limited so that savings on electricity
or fossil fuel consumption will be possible.
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