Hardware and Software Implementation for Solar Hot Water System in Northern Regions of Russia

Tsvetkov, Nikolay; Boldyryev, Stanislav; Shilin, Aleksandr; Krivoshein, Yuriy; Tolstykh, Aleksandr

doi:10.3390/en15041446

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Hardware and Software Implementation for Solar Hot Water System in Northern Regions of Russia

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Nikolay Tsvetkov

¹,

Stanislav Boldyryev

^2,*

,

Aleksandr Shilin

²,

Yuriy Krivoshein

¹ and

Aleksandr Tolstykh

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Department of Heat and Gas Supply and Engineering Systems in Construction, Tomsk State University of Architecture and Building, 2, Solyanaya Sq., 634003 Tomsk, Russia

²

Research School of Chemical and Applied Biomedical Sciences, Tomsk Polytechnic University, 30, Lenin Ave., 634050 Tomsk, Russia

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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

Energies 2022, 15(4), 1446; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15041446

Submission received: 9 December 2021 / Revised: 14 February 2022 / Accepted: 15 February 2022 / Published: 16 February 2022

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Solar Energy Harvesting in Northern Territories)

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Acceleration of energy transition will become the crucial social, political and technical challenge of the 21st century and will be largely associated with the growing use of renewable energy sources, including solar power. This study provides some experimental results of using solar hot water systems (HWS) embedded in apartment buildings located in the energy-efficient district called Zhatay in Yakutsk city, in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The low annual solar fraction of HWS was found for 2019. It is equal to 0.2869 and caused by thermal energy loss from the hydraulic circuit during the nighttime. The study suggests increasing solar fraction in HWS and implementing a software and hardware system. The experimental evaluation of these studies was performed by testing a solar water heating pilot plant in Kaftanchikovo village in Tomsk Region (Western Siberia). As a result of HWS testing, it was found that the annual solar fraction can be significantly increased by preventing the heating agent from night freezing in hydraulic circuits of tube collectors, even when the outdoor temperature is below its freezing point.

Keywords: renewable energy; permafrost region; solar energy; hardware and software implementation; hot water system

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Tsvetkov, N.; Boldyryev, S.; Shilin, A.; Krivoshein, Y.; Tolstykh, A. Hardware and Software Implementation for Solar Hot Water System in Northern Regions of Russia. Energies 2022, 15, 1446. https://doi.org/10.3390/en15041446

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Tsvetkov N, Boldyryev S, Shilin A, Krivoshein Y, Tolstykh A. Hardware and Software Implementation for Solar Hot Water System in Northern Regions of Russia. Energies. 2022; 15(4):1446. https://doi.org/10.3390/en15041446

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Tsvetkov, Nikolay, Stanislav Boldyryev, Aleksandr Shilin, Yuriy Krivoshein, and Aleksandr Tolstykh. 2022. "Hardware and Software Implementation for Solar Hot Water System in Northern Regions of Russia" Energies 15, no. 4: 1446. https://doi.org/10.3390/en15041446

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Tsvetkov, N., Boldyryev, S., Shilin, A., Krivoshein, Y., & Tolstykh, A. (2022). Hardware and Software Implementation for Solar Hot Water System in Northern Regions of Russia. Energies, 15(4), 1446. https://doi.org/10.3390/en15041446

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