Dimensioning a Small-Sized PTC Solar Field for Heating and Cooling of a Hotel in Almería (Spain) | Zendy

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Dimensioning a Small-Sized PTC Solar Field for Heating and Cooling of a Hotel in Almería (Spain)

Author(s) -

Manuel Quirante,

Loreto Valenzuela

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

energy procedia

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.474

H-Index - 81

ISSN - 1876-6102

DOI - 10.1016/j.egypro.2012.11.109

Subject(s) - dimensioning , environmental science , parabolic trough , solar air conditioning , solar energy , meteorology , thermal , engineering , aerospace engineering , electrical engineering , physics

This paper presents a solar field configuration to supply thermal energy to the heating and air conditioning system of a hotel located in Almería (Southern Spain). The solar collector technology selected for the solar field is parabolic trough collector (PTC) technology, in particular a small sized PTC prototype especially designed for industrial process heat and air-conditioning systems. Each PTC collector is 8m long and its aperture length is 1m. The heat transfer fluid in the solar field is pressurized hot water. Considering the space available for the solar collector field just close to the hotel and its thermal energy demand profile, the solar field configuration proposed consists of 8 parallel rows, north-south oriented, composed of 32 PTCs connected in series. With this solar field configuration, 25% of the cooling demand is covered the hottest day of the summer and 76% of the heating demand is covered the coldest day of the winter

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