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Retrofitting Conventional Electric Domestic Hot Water Heaters to Solar Water Heating Systems in Single-Family Houses-Model Validation and Optimization

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

System cost reductions and development of standardised plug-and-function systems are some of the most important goals for solar heating technology development. Retrofitting hot water boilers in single-family houses when installing solar collectors has the potential to significantly reduce both material and installation costs. In this study, the TRNSYS simulation models of the retrofitting solar thermal system were validated against measurements. Results show that the validated models are in good agreement with measurements. On an annual basis a deviation of 2.5% out of 1099 kWh was obtained between the auxiliary energy from results and from the simulation model for a complete system. Using the validated model a system optimization was carried out with respect to control strategies for auxiliary heating, heat losses and volume of auxiliary storage. A sensitivity analysis was carried out regarding different volumes of retrofitted hot water boiler, DHW profiles and climates. It was estimated that, with adequate improvements, extended annual solar fractions of 60%, 78% and 81% can be achieved for Lund (Sweden), Lisbon (Portugal) and Lusaka (Zambia), respectively. The correspondent collector area was 6, 4 and 3 m(2), respectively. The studied retrofitted system achieves a comparable performance with conventional solar thermal systems with the potential to reduce the investment cost.

Publiceringsår

2013

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

953-972

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Energies

Volym

6

Issue

2

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

MDPI AG

Ämne

  • Building Technologies

Nyckelord

  • solar thermal
  • storage tank
  • hot water boiler
  • retrofit
  • domestic hot
  • water

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1996-1073