Simulation of solar absorption cooling system for a residential building in South Africa

Author

Luta, D. ; Raji, A. ; Fritz, W.

Author_Institution

Cape Peninsula Univ. of Technol., Bellville, South Africa

fYear

2014

fDate

1-2 April 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In recent years, solar energy applications have been extended to HVAC systems in general and cooling systems in particular. Compared to conventional cooling systems, solar powered cooling technologies have the advantage of reducing the use of electricity from the grid thus saving energy and reducing the system operating cost. In addition, unlike conventional cooling technologies which present some concerns by the use of CFC (ChloroFluoroCarbon) and HCFC (HydroChloroFluoroCarbon) as refrigerants, solar powered cooling technologies do not lead to environmental concerns due to their fewer greenhouse gas emissions. In this paper, we have performed a simulation of solar absorption cooling system using INSEL software. The aim is to examine the performance of this type of cooling system and see if it can be suitable for a residential building located in Cape Town in the Republic of South Africa.

Keywords

HVAC; buildings (structures); cooling; power grids; refrigerants; solar absorber-convertors; solar power; Cape Town; HCFC; HVAC systems; INSEL software; South Africa; grid; hydrochlorofluorocarbon; refrigerants; residential building; solar absorption cooling system; solar energy; solar powered cooling technologies; HVAC; Solar absorption cooling system;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Domestic Use of Energy (DUE), 2014 Proceedings of the Twenty-Second

Conference_Location

Cape Town

Print_ISBN

978-0-9922041-4-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DUE.2014.6827775

Filename

6827775