COMPUTER SIMULATION FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS.

In this paper, the performance of two types of solar energy systems is to be examined, namely solar hot water system and solar air-conditioning system. The computer simulations make use of the digital program called TRNSYS developed by Solar Energy Laboratory of the University of Wisconsin. For the hot water system, domestic scale size is considered. The analysis aims at developing a generalised method for optimum size design selection, and is then compared with the conventional f-chart method. Water/lithium-bromide absorption cooling is selected for solar air-conditioning simulation. Parametric analyses are carried out for different values of collector sizes.