Appl. Sci. 2018, 8(4), 491; doi:10.3390/app8040491
Design and Analysis of a Floor Radiant Heating System Based on Energy Substitution Technology
Department of New Energy, Tianjin Sino-German University of Applied Sciences, Tianjin 300350, China
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Received: 14 February 2018 / Revised: 23 March 2018 / Accepted: 23 March 2018 / Published: 25 March 2018
(This article belongs to the Section Energy)
Abstract
With the development of renewable energy, energy substitution technology has been applied to many fields. This research suggests that solar energy, as renewable energy, takes the place of conventional energy: a floor radiant heating system driven by solar energy is combined with a photovoltaic floor radiant heating system, and the photothermal floor radiant heating system has been proposed and investigated in this study. This research also designs a fuzzy PID (Proportion, Integration, Differentiation) control system to control the indoor temperature within the set range precisely. In this paper, the proposed floor radiant heating system has been tested and analyzed. The experimental results show that the inhomogeneity of the indoor floor surface temperature distribution is larger than that of other places, and the standard deviation of the indoor floor surface temperature can reach 1.87 °C. The standard deviation was approximately 0.36 °C at 0.6 m, 1.2 m and 1.8 m, which indicates this is suitable for habitation. Three kinds of floor radiant heating systems were compared and analyzed to demonstrate the advantage of the proposed floor radiant heating system. The calculation method of the heating system was proposed and applied to the actual heating system in this paper. The proposed floor radiant heating system is a highly efficient and environmental protection system that can be used for heating extensive areas to realize the objective of energy saving and emission reduction. View Full-TextKeywords:
photovoltaic floor radiant heating system; photothermal floor radiant heating system; fuzzy PID control; heat calculation
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