Preliminary Assessment on the Potential Use of Solar Energy in House Heating: A Case Study of an Elementary Classroom with Attached Sunspace in Lintan County, Gansu Province

Author

Guanghua, Luo ; Shuwen, Niu ; Xifeng, Zhang ; Yihan, Li

Author_Institution

Coll. of Resource & Environ., Lanzhou Univ., Lanzhou, China

fYear

2011

fDate

19-20 Feb. 2011

Firstpage

1637

Lastpage

1641

Abstract

Fruitful resources of solar energy in China have a huge prospect to development and utilization. In this paper, an elementary school classroom located in alpine region has been studied to estimate the potential benefits of solar energy used in house heating. The effectiveness of Warming in classroom with attached sunspace has been analyzed based on solar radiation received at unit area. Results show that attached sunspace is possible to receive the effective solar radiation of average 41.6 MJ/M² -Day and achieve indoor warming of daily average 13°C in a heating period (from September of this year to April of next year). They are consistent with the actual results of survey. Therefore there will be a widespread prospect of utilization of solar energy in house heating, if attached sunspace is constructed by inexpensive material.

Keywords

solar heating; solar power; solar radiation; space heating; attached sunspace; elementary school classroom; house heating; indoor warming; solar energy; solar radiation; Computers; Decision support systems; Distributed control; Hafnium; Helium; Monitoring; Attached sunspace; Heating; Solar energy; Utilization potential;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Distributed Control and Intelligent Environmental Monitoring (CDCIEM), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Changsha

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-278-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4350-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CDCIEM.2011.15

Filename

5748130