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Case study of a solar cooling system combining an absorption chiller with domestic hot water production
The example in chapter 4 shows a typical optimized solar cooling system for French climatic and economic conditions. The concept is to optimize the use of solar energy all over the year by producing solar domestic hot water ( DHW ) as a base load. Nevertheless, to reach a high solar fraction for producing this DHW , especially in winter time, the solar collector field is oversized. This oversizing is exploited in summer time by running a single effect absorption chiller; Ideal conditions were found in Montpellier, South of France for a group of 2 buildings which are connected via a small heating network. One is an office building where cooling is used in Summer time and the other building is a residential one. Running now (2017) for more than 4 years, the system regularly performs with overall yearly electric efficiency of more than 20, and has not raised any major technical issues. One key is that the control of the system is very simple and robust, another key being the system is safe, for instance using a drain‐back strategy in the solar collection circuit.
Case study of a solar cooling system combining an absorption chiller with domestic hot water production
The example in chapter 4 shows a typical optimized solar cooling system for French climatic and economic conditions. The concept is to optimize the use of solar energy all over the year by producing solar domestic hot water ( DHW ) as a base load. Nevertheless, to reach a high solar fraction for producing this DHW , especially in winter time, the solar collector field is oversized. This oversizing is exploited in summer time by running a single effect absorption chiller; Ideal conditions were found in Montpellier, South of France for a group of 2 buildings which are connected via a small heating network. One is an office building where cooling is used in Summer time and the other building is a residential one. Running now (2017) for more than 4 years, the system regularly performs with overall yearly electric efficiency of more than 20, and has not raised any major technical issues. One key is that the control of the system is very simple and robust, another key being the system is safe, for instance using a drain‐back strategy in the solar collection circuit.
Case study of a solar cooling system combining an absorption chiller with domestic hot water production
Mugnier, Daniel (author) / Neyer, Daniel (author) / White, Stephen D. (author) / Seleme, Léon Ramos (author)
2017-10-02
32 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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