An estimation approach to effective solar heat gain power

Author

Cao, Jinling ; Yang, Zunfeng

Author_Institution

Tianjin Electron.-Inf. Technol. Coll., Tianjin, China

Volume

10

fYear

2010

fDate

22-24 Oct. 2010

Abstract

This paper presents a simply but effective solution of measuring the solar heat gain in the solar collector systems. The estimation approach is based on the proportional relationship between effective solar heat gain power and water heating rate under the normal operation conditions. In addition, the measurement data shows that solar heat gain decays with the increasing of desired water temperature. The result of this paper can be used to choose the minimal desired water temperature in the intelligent control design, which can improve the efficiency of sunlight-heat energy conversion in solar collector systems.

Keywords

estimation theory; intelligent control; solar absorber-convertors; solar heating; sunlight; estimation approach; intelligent control; normal operation; solar collector systems; solar heat gain power; sunlight-heat energy conversion; water heating rate; water temperature; Temperature sensors; Water heating; Solar energy; heating rate method; intelligent control; solar collector system; solar heat gain power;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Application and System Modeling (ICCASM), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Taiyuan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7235-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-7237-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCASM.2010.5622693

Filename

5622693