Journal
APPLIED ENERGY
Volume 109, Issue -, Pages 470-475Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2012.09.062
Keywords
Phase change materials (PCMs); Thermal energy storage (TES); Solar domestic hot water (SDHW) system; Numerical model
Categories
Ask authors/readers for more resources
The use of phase change materials (PCMs) to increase solar domestic hot water (SDHW) system efficiency has been already studied by different ways. Some studies place the storage material in the water tank, others directly in the solar thermal collector. However both of them show that the effectiveness of such a use is not relevant. This paper is devoted to a new approach: the PCM is placed in the heat transfer fluid solar loop from the SDHW system. This configuration is studied under different weather conditions and system parameters. On the contrary to previous results, this parametric study highlights a significant increase of the system efficiency due to the PCM. Then, a genetic algorithm allows proposing an optimized system configuration. (c) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available