Combining solar collectors with a heat pump system is an economically viable option in tropical regions (Mohanraj et al., 2018a, Lazzarin, ... The energy, economical and environmental impact assessment studies revealed that the proposed configuration is suitable for drying, water heating and space heating applications (Mohanraj et al. 2018b). 5.
SWHS play a pivotal role in addressing energy efficiency and environmental sustainability, making it imperative to conduct in-depth studies on their utilization. ... The solar collector serves as a specialized form of heat exchanger within an SWHS framework. Its main function is to absorb solar energy and convert it into thermal …
DOI: 10.1016/J.PECS.2020.100898 Corpus ID: 233543948; Recent advances on nanofluids for low to medium temperature solar collectors: energy, exergy, economic analysis and environmental impact
The outcomes reveal that a solar-thermal framework provides more than four times release to air ( 100% ) than the solar-PV ( 23.26% ), and the outputs by a solar-PV system to soil ( 27.48% ) and ...
The efficient exploitation of solar irradiation is one of the most encouraging ways of handling numerous environmental concerns. Solar collectors are suitable devices that capture solar ...
Twisted tape inserts in parabolic trough solar collectors: Assessment of Energy, Exergy, and Environmental impacts. Author links open overlay ... into renewable energy is becoming increasingly popular due to the inadequate reserve of fossil fuels and the severe effects of climate change [1]. Solar energy is favored among many alternatives …
Solar collectors can be categorized as non-concentrating and concentrating. ... Environmental impact: The DTT insert with the smallest pitch ratio (y/y 0 = 2) resulted in a significant CO 2 reduction, estimated at 1.53 tons/year, leading to an annual enviro-economic gain of 22.19 USD. 6)
In this work, we address and discuss the environmental impacts of solar energy systems, demonstrated by commercially available and emerging solar PV …
When attempting to comprehend the benefits and drawbacks of various collector designs, it is essential to compare them. This makes choosing the technology best suited for a particular environment and application easier. This study compares and contrasts the direct flow and heat pipe evacuated tube collectors (ETCs) utilized in solar …
Followed by the entropy, economic and environmental analyses of the nanofluid based solar collectors have been presented in depth. Also, a state-of-the-art review on energy, exergy, economic, and environmental effects of solar collectors in buildings as essential applications of using solar energy has been introduced and …
Furthermore, the combination of solar thermal collectors and heat pumps is a more robust technology called Solar-Assisted Heat Pump (SAHP) that can improve the system''s performance and requires less electrical energy [61].Buker and Riffat studied and analyzed direct SAHP systems extensively [41].However, long-term maintenance costs …
This paper presents a comprehensive investigation of absorption and adsorption cooling systems powered by different solar collectors, namely flat plate …
The chapter presents the fundamentals for performance evaluation of different types of solar thermal collectors (STC): flat thermal collectors (FTC), …
(1) can be rewritten as (3) η = a o − a 1 ∆ T I T − a 2 ∆ T 2 I T where, Q u is the thermal energy gain of the solar collector, A is the gross solar collector area, I T. is the overall solar radiation incident on the horizontal surface, F R. is the heat removal factor, and U L. is the overall heat loss coefficient of the collector per ...
Because of its potential to directly transform solar energy into heat and energy, without harmful environmental effects such as greenhouse gas emissions. Hybrid nanofluid is an efficient way to …
The energy analysis and the environmental balance during the life time operation of solar thermal collectors have been presented by Ardente et al. [56], while the economic, environmental and ...
Solar collectors have thermal and photovoltaic applications, in which solar irradiation would be converted into thermal and electric energies in thermal and photovoltaic applications, respectively. ... deleterious effects on the environment, needing higher power of pumping, ambiguous health implications on human''s body, and so forth. These ...
Nowadays, solar thermal collectors use solar energy to distribute low-cost domestic and industrial heating. In this review a comprehensive analysis of peer …
A few studies have even looked at two objectives together-namely cost and environmental impact-for solar ... To evaluate the performance of parabolic trough solar collectors (PTCs) and flat plate ...
The BI solar thermal system which is examined (Fig. 1) was developed and tested at the University of Corsica, in France is based on a patented solar collector for water heating [22], integrated into building gutters (high building integration with no visual impact: Fig. 1 a). The solar collector is tilted 25° (Fig. 1 a).The ducting connecting the …
The major intent of this article was to determine the amount of energy received by two active systems used to convert solar radiation and to estimate their impact on reducing the emission of pollutants. Thermal solar collectors with an area of 51.36 m2 and photovoltaic panels with an area of 50.4 m2 were subject to comparative analysis. It …
The evaluation of the environmental impact of solar and wind power plants is based on a wide range of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) studies. ... In a PTC plant, the distribution is somewhat different. Τhe manufacturing impact of the collectors is found to be around 40% the total impact, that of the storage block around 18%, and that of the ...
To overcome the environmental impact and declining source of fossil fuels, renewable energy sources need to meet the increasing demand of energy. Solar thermal energy is clean and infinite, suitable to be a good replacement for fossil fuel. However, the current solar technology is still expensive and low in efficiency. One of the …
Single crystalline Si solar cells are considered for the solar PV system and an evacuated glass tube collector is considered for the solar thermal system in this analysis. A life-cycle inventory (LCI) is developed considering all inputs and outputs to assess and compare the environmental impacts of both systems for 16 impact indicators.
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2024.123566 Corpus ID: 270212429; Twisted tape inserts in parabolic trough solar Collectors: Assessment of Energy, Exergy, and Environmental impacts @article{Mehta2024TwistedTI, title={Twisted tape inserts in parabolic trough solar Collectors: Assessment of Energy, Exergy, and Environmental …
1. Introduction. Heating and domestic hot water (DHW) systems consume far more energy than other household appliances and represent the largest proportion of CO 2 emissions from domestic energy consumption. DHW in the UK was responsible for 125TWh of energy consumption in 2001 and 7.4 Mt of CO 2 emissions (Shorrock and …
As previously stated, there is main four parts of a SWH system, e.g., i) solar thermal collector, ii) heat storage tank, iii) heat exchanger with transferring fluid, and iv) nan absorber plate with absorbing materials which has been discussed briefly based on thermal performance (Fig. 2).Additionally, various components such as a pump, piping …