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ArticleAuthors
Huang, Bin-JuineHou, Tung-Fu
Hsu, Po-Chien
Lin, Tse-Han
Chen, Yan-Tze
Chen, Chi-Wen
Li, Kang
Lee, K.Y.
KAUST Grant Number
KUK-C1-014-12Date
2015-12-05Online Publication Date
2015-12-05Print Publication Date
2016-04Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/597945
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© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. Solar air conditioning system directly driven by stand-alone solar PV is studied. The air conditioning system will suffer from loss of power if the solar PV power generation is not high enough. It requires a proper system design to match the power consumption of air conditioning system with a proper PV size. Six solar air conditioners with different sizes of PV panel and air conditioners were built and tested outdoors to experimentally investigate the running probabilities of air conditioning at various solar irradiations. It is shown that the instantaneous operation probability (OPB) and the runtime fraction (RF) of the air conditioner are mainly affected by the design parameter rpL (ratio of maximum PV power to load power). The measured OPB is found to be greater than 0.98 at instantaneous solar irradiation IT > 600 W m-2 if rpL > 1.71 RF approaches 1.0 (the air conditioner is run in 100% with solar power) at daily-total solar radiation higher than 13 MJ m-2 day-1, if rpL > 3.Citation
Huang B-J, Hou T-F, Hsu P-C, Lin T-H, Chen Y-T, et al. (2016) Design of direct solar PV driven air conditioner. Renewable Energy 88: 95–101. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2015.11.026.Sponsors
This study was supported by National Energy Program II, MOST103-3113-E-002-006 made by Ministry of Science and Technology,Taiwan, and by Award No.KUK-C1-014-12, made by King AbdullahUniversity of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia.Publisher
Elsevier BVJournal
Renewable Energyae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1016/j.renene.2015.11.026