Open AccessAn energy balance model for passive solar systems operation
Author(s) -
Catherine Baxevanou,
D. Fidaros,
Aris Tsangrassoulis
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1343/1/012130
Subject(s) - energy balance , passive solar building design , solar energy , energy (signal processing) , balance (ability) , opacity , software , space (punctuation) , computer science , mechanical engineering , engineering , architectural engineering , electrical engineering , physics , thermodynamics , medicine , optics , quantum mechanics , physical medicine and rehabilitation , programming language , operating system
Passive solar systems (such as Trombe-Michel walls and their modifications) are a cost effective technology to reduce the energy demand for buildings’ space heating. In the present paper an energy balance model for the description of the performance of a passive solar system composed of an opaque element with transparent insulation is presented. This energy balance model has the form of a closed system of equations that could easily be solved in an open source software by an engineer.