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Solar System Design and Energy Performance Assessment Approaches

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Recently, solar system has gained a rapid development in many countries because it is clean and sustainable. Many solar systems including the solar photovoltaic/loop-heat-pipe (PV/LHP), solar loop-heat-pipe (LHP), solar photovoltaic/micro-channel heat pipe (PV/MCHP) system, and solar thermal facade system (STF) have been designed for energy saving. To assess these systems’ performance, there are many approaches such as energy and exergy assessment which is used in this chapter to analyze their performance. Besides the system design, the authors set up dedicated experimental models in combination with computer models to test the systems’ performance. Furthermore, some systems are compared with the conventional system, and the performance of these solar systems is better than the conventional system. In addition, these solar systems are applied in many real buildings and their performance is examined, the results show that the solar systems have more potential to boost the building energy efficiency and create the possibility of solar development in buildings.

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  2. Department of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Ningbo, China

    Xinru Wang

  3. School of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Hull, Hull, HU6 7RX, UK

    Xudong Zhao

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Zhang, X., Wang, X., Zhao, X. (2019). Solar System Design and Energy Performance Assessment Approaches. In: Zhao, X., Ma, X. (eds) Advanced Energy Efficiency Technologies for Solar Heating, Cooling and Power Generation . Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17283-1_12

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