AN IDENTIFICATION APPROACH FOR PERFORMANCE CHARACTERIZATION AND SIMULATION OF LARGE SOLAR HEATING SYSTEMS

摘要

An efficient and simple simulation methodology for large solar water heaters has been developed, based on the input-output approach. This approach gives the ability to estimate the expected energy behavior under specific meteorological condition by using the characteristic Input-Output equation of the solar system. The coefficients of this equation can be determined through an experiment-based identification procedure The proposed methodology can be used not only for optimization of the system performance but also for evaluation of experimental results of an existing system in order to improve it further.