Thermal Performance and Cost to Produce 90°C-Hot Water of Solar Thermal Collector and Hybrid Photovoltaic Thermal (PVT) Collector Systems

Shigeki Hirasawa; Tsuyoshi Kawanami; Katsuaki Shirai

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Thermal Performance and Cost to Produce 90°C-Hot Water of Solar Thermal Collector and Hybrid Photovoltaic Thermal (PVT) Collector Systems

Shigeki Hirasawa, Tsuyoshi Kawanami, Katsuaki Shirai

Published in International Journal of Energy and Power Engineering (Volume 5, Issue 4)

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Abstract

The effects of types of collector systems, operation-control methods, and locations in the world on thermal performance of solar thermal collector systems and cost to produce required amount of 90°C-hot water were studied through numerical simulations. Also performance of a hybrid photovoltaic thermal (PVT) collector system was examined. Calculation results showed that the costs for all solar thermal collector systems were much less than that without solar thermal collector system. Effect of the locations in the word on the cost was large. Total energy efficiency and exergy efficiency of PVT system were lower than those of the solar thermal collector system. The cost for PVT system was higher than that for the solar thermal collector system.

Published in	International Journal of Energy and Power Engineering (Volume 5, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijepe.20160504.13
Page(s)	155-162
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright	Copyright © The Author(s), 2016. Published by Science Publishing Group

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Thermal Efficiency, Exergy, Cost, Solar Thermal Collector, Hybrid Photovoltaic Thermal Collector

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Shigeki Hirasawa, Tsuyoshi Kawanami, Katsuaki Shirai. (2016). Thermal Performance and Cost to Produce 90°C-Hot Water of Solar Thermal Collector and Hybrid Photovoltaic Thermal (PVT) Collector Systems. International Journal of Energy and Power Engineering, 5(4), 155-162. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijepe.20160504.13

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Shigeki Hirasawa, Tsuyoshi Kawanami, Katsuaki Shirai. Thermal Performance and Cost to Produce 90°C-Hot Water of Solar Thermal Collector and Hybrid Photovoltaic Thermal (PVT) Collector Systems. Int J Energy Power Eng. 2016;5(4):155-162. doi: 10.11648/j.ijepe.20160504.13

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Shigeki Hirasawa

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kobe University, Rokkodai, Nada, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
Tsuyoshi Kawanami

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kobe University, Rokkodai, Nada, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
Katsuaki Shirai

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kobe University, Rokkodai, Nada, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

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Shigeki Hirasawa, Tsuyoshi Kawanami, Katsuaki Shirai. Thermal Performance and Cost to Produce 90°C-Hot Water of Solar Thermal Collector and Hybrid Photovoltaic Thermal (PVT) Collector Systems. Int J Energy Power Eng. 2016;5(4):155-162. doi: 10.11648/j.ijepe.20160504.13

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