Monitoring and Measurement System to Optimize the Performances of Solar Assisted Heating Plant

This work deals with the development and characterization of innovative domestic heating system driven by solar assisted heat pump in order to increase the system efficiency. A suitable on-line measurement system of overall observable quantities has been integrated in the plant, to give accurate and updated measurements of all the variables interesting the whole system. A more detailed analysis of quantities that main influence the system performance has been carried out, by developing a suitable mathematic model able to describe and control the behaviour of interested phenomena. The heating energy amount is a function of the local weather conditions. In the thermal plant here proposed there is a solar energy harvesting device; this kind of plant needs of a high sensitive control system because of the great sensitivity of a solar systems to climate variation