Objective
The proposed research project aims to investigate an advanced solar-driven air-conditioning system suitable for the Mediterranean climate. The proposed system comprises modular evacuated solar tubes coupled with an ejector-cooling device, a booster cold storage and air-handling unit. The system will use glass-glass sealed, evacuated tube solar collectors able to provide a substantial energy output even under extreme weather conditions and have an advantage over other types of evacuated tubes in that the vacuum is maintained between two glass tubes thus providing excellent sealing, for long term use.
The evacuated tubes could be installed on the roof of buildings in order to collect solar energy. The heat from the tubes would be extracted using closed-loop heat-pipes and the extracted heat would be used to produce vapour to drive a jet refrigeration device. The proposed system uses a new, compact ejector configuration, which incorporates all the ejector components in a single shell-and-tube heat exchanger u nit. The proposed ejector system eliminates the need for separate heat exchangers, and allows more effective heat transfer in the evaporator as well as condenser sections. Significant reduction of the size, weight and cost of the ejector system is therefore possible. Other components of the system include a cold store unit employing microencapsulated phase change material (MCPCM) slurries for improved continuity of cooling supply, and an air handing unit which could be integrated into the air-conditioning system.
MCPCM have the advantage that it could be used as a heat transport and storage medium at the same time. The work programme will involve design optimisation and evaluation of laboratory-scale components of the system, development of a parametric computer model for system performance analysis, investigation of a building-solar tubes integration and installation and evaluation of a full-scale prototype in a Mediterranean climate.
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FP6-2004-INCO-MPC-3
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NOTTINGHAM
United Kingdom
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