Solar and Heat Pump Systems for Residential Buildings
Solar and Heat Pump Systems for Residential Buildings shows different ways in which these two technologies can be combined, and it presents the path to high-performance hybrid systems. The book is the result of a collaborative international work within the Solar Heating and Cooling Programme and the Heat Pump Programme of the International Energy Agency (IEA). It is a great pleasure for me, as a former chairman of the IEA SHC Executive Committee, to introduce Solar and Heat Pump Systems for Residential Buildings.
The steady growth of solar thermal systems for more than three decades has shown that solar heating systems are both mature and technically reliable. However, solar thermal systems have usually been sold as an add-on to a conventional hot water or space heating system.
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- Contents
- preference
- About the editor and the supervisors
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- List of contributors
- IEA solar heating and cooling programme
- Forewords
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- System description, categorization, and comparison
- Components and thermodynamic aspects
- Performance and its assessment
- Laboratory test procedures for solar and heat pump systems
- Practical Considerations
- System simulations
- Economic and market issues
- Conclusion and outlook
- Glossary
- Index
This book is about a hybrid technology called “solar and heat pump.” It is basically the combination of a solar system with a heat pump delivering heat to a building. When the sun is shining, the collectors will be the primary source of energy for the domestic hot water preparation and for the space heating. Furthermore, When the sun is less abundant or when the solar storage is empty, the heat pump will take over the duty. The source of the primary low-energy “heat” for the heat pump to operate air, ground, or water from a river or an aquifer.
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