An economic analysis of a solar assisted heat pump system for cooling, water heating and drying

A solar assisted heat-pump system has been developed to provide cooling, water heating and drying. The energy required for the system is met by a combination of energy collected from the sun, ambient and the energy recovered from a vapor compression heat-pump system, which also serves as an air-cond...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Hawlader, Mohammad Nurul Alam, Shaochun, Ye
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	2011
Subjects:	TJ807 Renewable energy sources
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/8901/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/8901/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/8901/1/RSET2011_Paper_hawlader_8901.pdf

id	iium-8901
recordtype	eprints
spelling	iium-89012012-01-04T09:57:03Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/8901/ An economic analysis of a solar assisted heat pump system for cooling, water heating and drying Hawlader, Mohammad Nurul Alam Shaochun, Ye TJ807 Renewable energy sources A solar assisted heat-pump system has been developed to provide cooling, water heating and drying. The energy required for the system is met by a combination of energy collected from the sun, ambient and the energy recovered from a vapor compression heat-pump system, which also serves as an air-conditioner. The presence of evaporator-collector, which is in parallel connection with the room evaporator, enables the system to operate round the clock. Experiments and simulations were carried out to provide a better understanding of the system. Based on the validated simulation model, an economic optimization was performed to identify the best collector size for a given load and its distribution, using two methods, life cycle savings (LCS) and payback period. The load pattern is determined based on a typical small hotel with the air-con room area of 500m2, daily hot water demand of 18m3 and daily drying demand of 90kg. It is found that the life cycle saving method leads to the prediction of the optimum collector area of 55 m2. The analyses based on payback period, on the other hand, predicted an optimum collector area of 45 m2. The minimum payback period is about 1.5 years. 2011-11-21 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/8901/1/RSET2011_Paper_hawlader_8901.pdf Hawlader, Mohammad Nurul Alam and Shaochun, Ye (2011) An economic analysis of a solar assisted heat pump system for cooling, water heating and drying. In: 3rd Regional Symposium on Engineering and Technology 2011, 21-23 November 2011, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. (Unpublished) http://www.mset.org.my/index.php?q=content/3rd-regional-symposium-engineering-technology
repository_type	Digital Repository
institution_category	Local University
institution	International Islamic University Malaysia
building	IIUM Repository
collection	Online Access
language	English
topic	TJ807 Renewable energy sources
spellingShingle	TJ807 Renewable energy sources Hawlader, Mohammad Nurul Alam Shaochun, Ye An economic analysis of a solar assisted heat pump system for cooling, water heating and drying
description	A solar assisted heat-pump system has been developed to provide cooling, water heating and drying. The energy required for the system is met by a combination of energy collected from the sun, ambient and the energy recovered from a vapor compression heat-pump system, which also serves as an air-conditioner. The presence of evaporator-collector, which is in parallel connection with the room evaporator, enables the system to operate round the clock. Experiments and simulations were carried out to provide a better understanding of the system. Based on the validated simulation model, an economic optimization was performed to identify the best collector size for a given load and its distribution, using two methods, life cycle savings (LCS) and payback period. The load pattern is determined based on a typical small hotel with the air-con room area of 500m2, daily hot water demand of 18m3 and daily drying demand of 90kg. It is found that the life cycle saving method leads to the prediction of the optimum collector area of 55 m2. The analyses based on payback period, on the other hand, predicted an optimum collector area of 45 m2. The minimum payback period is about 1.5 years.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Hawlader, Mohammad Nurul Alam Shaochun, Ye
author_facet	Hawlader, Mohammad Nurul Alam Shaochun, Ye
author_sort	Hawlader, Mohammad Nurul Alam
title	An economic analysis of a solar assisted heat pump system for cooling, water heating and drying
title_short	An economic analysis of a solar assisted heat pump system for cooling, water heating and drying
title_full	An economic analysis of a solar assisted heat pump system for cooling, water heating and drying
title_fullStr	An economic analysis of a solar assisted heat pump system for cooling, water heating and drying
title_full_unstemmed	An economic analysis of a solar assisted heat pump system for cooling, water heating and drying
title_sort	economic analysis of a solar assisted heat pump system for cooling, water heating and drying
publishDate	2011
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/8901/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/8901/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/8901/1/RSET2011_Paper_hawlader_8901.pdf
first_indexed	2023-09-18T20:18:42Z
last_indexed	2023-09-18T20:18:42Z
_version_	1777407961810862080

An economic analysis of a solar assisted heat pump system for cooling, water heating and drying

Similar Items