Objective
Solar thermal systems with enlarged collector areas for additional solar assisted heating are comming up now on the European market. In the daily practice, however, due to the enlarged collector areas (in relation to the installed hot water storage volume) there are problems with overheating and stagnation during summer time. The aim of the project is the development of collector systems which guarantee a continuous and maintenance-free operation even under stagnation conditions. The approach to find solutions to the stagnation problems will be:
1. Experimental investigations to get a clear and exact understanding of all the steps of the processes that take place when under stagnation conditions the collector fluid evaporates in the collector loop.
2. Different system concepts (with respect to stagnation conditions) will be investigated by means of numerical simulation. The aim is to analyse the stress of the components and the materials (especially the fluid) in the collector loop.
3. Investigation of new control strategies. The aim of the strategies will be to minimise the number of stagnation events.
4. Testing of prototypes of controllers which use the new control strategies. They will be used in existing solar systems and checked on their performance and behaviour under realistic operating conditions.
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology environmental engineering energy and fuels renewable energy solar energy solar thermal
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Coordinator
4655 Vorchdorf
Austria
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