Performance Analysis of Different Solar Water Heating Systems in West Bank
| dc.contributor.author | Mansour, Linda | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-09-22T06:03:19Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-09-22T06:03:19Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-09-29 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis investigates experimentally the energy performance of flat plate collectors (FPCs) and evacuated tube collectors (ETCs), which are the mostly common, used for Solar Water Heating Systems (SWHSs) in Palestine. A locally made SWHS, with 0.48m2 serpentine type flat plate collector (S-FPC), 0.48m2 parallel type flat plate collector (P-FPC) and 0.31m2 U-Pipe ETC was installed on the rooftop of Energy Research Center building at Al-Najah National University. The three collectors were connected in parallel to one storage tank of 30 Liter capacity. Water circulation between collectors and storage tank was controlled by valves in away allowed to test only one collector at a time. Every 15 minutes, data of collector’s inlet temperature, collector’s outlet temperature and tank temperature were collected by means of temperature sensors. The weather data (ambient temperature and solar radiation at tilted plan) were collected also using a meteorological weather station. The data were gathered for 13 days in May 2019 and June 2019 (4 days for S-FPC, 5 days for P-FPC and 4 days for ETC). The performance of each system were studied separately. Then, three days with the same weather condition were used to compare the performance of the three collectors. The results show that the daily energy collected by S-FPC is 1015 Wh/m2, 1415 Wh/m2 for P-FPC and 1854 Wh/m2 for ETC. The system efficiencies were 26%, 38% and 49% for S-FPC, P-FPC and ETC respectively. Economic analysis shows that all SWHSs are economically feasible with Net Present Value (NPV) and simple payback period (SPP) 7660 NIS, 1.56 years for S-FPC, 18400NIS, 1.5 years for P-FPC and 10400 NIS, 5.35 years for ETC | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11888/17417 | |
| dc.language.iso | other | en_US |
| dc.publisher | جامعة النجاح الوطنية | en_US |
| dc.supervisor | Dr. Imad Ibrik, Dr. Abdelrahim Abusafa | en_US |
| dc.title | Performance Analysis of Different Solar Water Heating Systems in West Bank | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | تحليل أداء أنظمة السخانات الشمسية المختلفة في الضفة الغربية | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |