Producing cost-competitive small and medium-sized solar cooling systems is currently a significant challenge. Due to system complexity, extensive engineering, design and equipment costs; the installation costs of solar thermal cooling systems are prohibitively high. In efforts to overcome these limitations, a novel sorption heat pump module has been developed and directly integrated into a sola...

1Thermal Engineering, IES College of Tech. Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. 2Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Eng., IES College of Tech. Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. ---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract In modern life as we seen that the requirement of space heating and coolin...

Heat pump technology has been used for heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning in domestic and industrial sectors in most developed countries of the world including South Africa. However, heat pump drying (HPD) of fruits and vegetables has been largely unexploited in South Africa and by extension to the sub-Saharan African region. Although studies on heat pump drying started in South Africa ...

The ground heat exchanger is traditionally used as a heat source or sink for the heat pump that raises the temperature of water to about 50 ◦C to heat houses. However, in winter, the heating thermostat (temperature at which heating begins) in the Australian Nationwide House Energy Rating Scheme (NatHERS) is only 20 ◦C during daytime and 15 ◦C at night. In South-East Melbourne, the temperature a...

Innovative mechanical services coupled with renewable energy systems are crucial for achieving a net zero goal houses. Conventional tend to be vastly oversized because they lack the means buffer flows and based on peak loads. This paper presents an approach achieve houses by using solar PV system, heat pumps, thermal electrical storage batteries, all off-the-shelf. Constraining one part of syst...

Minimising building life cycle energy consumption is becoming of paramount importance. Performance metrics tracking offers a clear and concise manner of relating design intent in a quantitative form. A methodology is discussed for storage and utilisation of these performance metrics through an Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) instantiated Building Information Model (BIM). The paper focuses on ...