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Status of solar cooling in the World: markets and available products
Author(s) -
Mugnier Daniel,
Jakob Uli
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
wiley interdisciplinary reviews: energy and environment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.158
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 2041-840X
pISSN - 2041-8396
DOI - 10.1002/wene.132
Subject(s) - renewable energy , solar energy , solar air conditioning , environmental science , air conditioning , thermal , process engineering , meteorology , engineering , mechanical engineering , electrical engineering , geography
Solar thermal cooling technology is nowadays facing a very exciting challenge. Air conditioning is a constant growing energy segment, especially in sunny and emerging countries. The worldwide trend for development of Renewables must cover this critical cooling application and solar thermal energy presents a natural and strong solution to address it. However, even if reliable technologically advanced products are presently available, the solar cooling sector needs to leap from a pre‐industrial and demonstration status into a competitive mass market. The solar cooling market is made for the time being of solar cooling kits, some custom made solar desiccant evaporative cooling systems and sorption systems. WIREs Energy Environ 2015, 4:229–234. doi: 10.1002/wene.132 This article is categorized under: Solar Heating and Cooling > Systems and Infrastructure