TY - GEN
T1 - Solar cooling with ice storage
AU - Peyton-Levine, Tobin
AU - Sherbeck, Jonathan
AU - Magerman, Beth
AU - Phelan, Patrick
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Solar photovoltaics (PV) is hampered by the lack of solar radiation during peak energy demand hours of the day, e.g. 5- 8pm. The ability to shift the PV power curve and make the energy accessible during peak hours can be accomplished through pairing solar PV with energy storage technologies. A system of combining solar PV and ice thermal storage in order to operate conventional heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC) units has been developed. The hybrid air conditioning system (HACS) consists of an array of PV panels running a DC compressor which operates a conventional HVAC unit using R134a that has two evaporators. A simple test run consisting of cycling the glycol solution through the glycol air handler with all other components shut down was performed. The glycol air handler ran for 6 hours and the initial cooling power was 4.5 kWth.
AB - Solar photovoltaics (PV) is hampered by the lack of solar radiation during peak energy demand hours of the day, e.g. 5- 8pm. The ability to shift the PV power curve and make the energy accessible during peak hours can be accomplished through pairing solar PV with energy storage technologies. A system of combining solar PV and ice thermal storage in order to operate conventional heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC) units has been developed. The hybrid air conditioning system (HACS) consists of an array of PV panels running a DC compressor which operates a conventional HVAC unit using R134a that has two evaporators. A simple test run consisting of cycling the glycol solution through the glycol air handler with all other components shut down was performed. The glycol air handler ran for 6 hours and the initial cooling power was 4.5 kWth.
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U2 - 10.1115/IMECE2012-93106
DO - 10.1115/IMECE2012-93106
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9780791845264
T3 - ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE)
SP - 235
EP - 240
BT - ASME 2012 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 2012
T2 - ASME 2012 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 2012
Y2 - 9 November 2012 through 15 November 2012
ER -