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Solar Heating and Cooling 2019

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A2: Solar Energy and Photovoltaic Systems".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2019) | Viewed by 5173

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Timothy Anderson

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand
Interests: solar and renewable energy systems; experimental and computational heat transfer and fluid mechanics; sustainable built environments; heat pumps and refrigeration
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Following the success of previous Special Issues on Solar Heating and Cooling, this issue aims to communicate the most recent advances in the field.

Dr. Timothy Anderson
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • solar heating
  • solar cooling
  • solar collectors
  • absorption cooling
  • adsorption cooling
  • thermal storage

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The Impact of Subsidy Programs for Solar Thermal Applications: A Case Study for a Remote Island
by Wei-Min Lin, Keh-Chin Chang and Kung-Ming Chung
Energies 2019, 12(20), 3944; https://doi.org/10.3390/en12203944 - 17 Oct 2019
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Government intervention in the form of financial incentives is crucial for translating customer choice into a larger market share for solar thermal applications. The lengthy subsidy programs for solar water heaters in Taiwan have expanded the local market. On a remote island (Kinmen [...] Read more.
Government intervention in the form of financial incentives is crucial for translating customer choice into a larger market share for solar thermal applications. The lengthy subsidy programs for solar water heaters in Taiwan have expanded the local market. On a remote island (Kinmen County), the area of solar collectors that are installed per 1000 inhabitants is 192.9 square meters. This study investigates a market-driven mechanism in terms of disposable income, household structure, building type and financial viability. The dual subsidy programs appear to have distorted the local market. The cumulative energy savings for solar water heaters that are installed is misleading because the systems are over-designed and there is a high replacement rate (or shorter service period). Full article
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Installation and Operation of a Solar Cooling and Heating System Incorporated with Air-Source Heat Pumps
by Li Huang, Rongyue Zheng and Udo Piontek
Energies 2019, 12(6), 996; https://doi.org/10.3390/en12060996 - 14 Mar 2019
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A solar cooling and heating system incorporated with two air-source heat pumps was installed in Ningbo City, China and has been operating since 2018. It is composed of 40 evacuated tube modules with a total aperture area of 120 m2, a [...] Read more.
A solar cooling and heating system incorporated with two air-source heat pumps was installed in Ningbo City, China and has been operating since 2018. It is composed of 40 evacuated tube modules with a total aperture area of 120 m2, a single-stage and LiBr–water-based absorption chiller with a cooling capacity of 35 kW, a cooling tower, a hot water storage tank, a buffer tank, and two air-source heat pumps, each with a rated cooling capacity of 23.8 kW and heating capacity of 33 kW as the auxiliary system. This paper presents the operational results and performance evaluation of the system during the summer cooling and winter heatingperiod, as well as on a typical summer day in 2018. It was found that the collector field yield and cooling energy yield increased by more than 40% when the solar cooling and heating system is incorporated with heat pumps. The annual average collector efficiency was 44% for cooling and 42% for heating, and the average coefficient of performance (COP) of the absorption chiller ranged between 0.68 and 0.76. The annual average solar fraction reached 56.6% for cooling and 62.5% for heating respectively. The yearly electricity savings accounted for 41.1% of the total electricity consumption for building cooling and heating. Full article
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