{"title":"Dynamic modelling of a ground-coupled solar ejector cooling system","authors":"Youssef Mazloum, Akram S. Ghanem","doi":"10.1080/14786451.2022.2121963","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This work presents a solar-driven air conditioning system based on ejector technology with closed-loop vertical geothermal boreholes. Modeling and simulation are carried out using Dymola software for dynamic transient analysis, with the refrigerant R134a. Condenser temperature regulation produces a 267% improvement of performance compared to a solar-only configuration. Solar fraction increases with increasing solar collector area, which benefits the system up to the limit of 27 m2 for a cooling load of 9 kW. The reservoir volume ensuring high solar fraction is 14 m3. Optimal generator saturation temperature ensures a seasonal coefficient of performance value of 0.772 and a maximum overall efficiency of 39%. When the system encounters deviations from the optimum set point, the overall efficiency becomes 37.4%.","PeriodicalId":14406,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sustainable Energy","volume":"41 1","pages":"1903 - 1937"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Journal of Sustainable Energy","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14786451.2022.2121963","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"ENERGY & FUELS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
ABSTRACT This work presents a solar-driven air conditioning system based on ejector technology with closed-loop vertical geothermal boreholes. Modeling and simulation are carried out using Dymola software for dynamic transient analysis, with the refrigerant R134a. Condenser temperature regulation produces a 267% improvement of performance compared to a solar-only configuration. Solar fraction increases with increasing solar collector area, which benefits the system up to the limit of 27 m2 for a cooling load of 9 kW. The reservoir volume ensuring high solar fraction is 14 m3. Optimal generator saturation temperature ensures a seasonal coefficient of performance value of 0.772 and a maximum overall efficiency of 39%. When the system encounters deviations from the optimum set point, the overall efficiency becomes 37.4%.
期刊介绍:
Engineering and sustainable development are intrinsically linked. All capital plant and every consumable product depends on an engineering input through design, manufacture and operation, if not for the product itself then for the equipment required to process and transport the raw materials and the final product. Many aspects of sustainable development depend directly on appropriate and timely actions by engineers. Engineering is an extended process of analysis, synthesis, evaluation and execution and, therefore, it is argued that engineers must be involved from the outset of any proposal to develop sustainable solutions. Engineering embraces many disciplines and truly sustainable solutions are usually inter-disciplinary in nature.