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IEA SHC Task 38 Solar Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Subtask A Report, November 2009
2 Solar Combisystems
By Dagmar Jaehnig, AEE INTEC, Austria and Wolfgang Streicher, Graz University of
Technology, IWT, Austria
2.1 Scope
This section aims at identifying solar combisystems for domestic hot water preparation and
space heating that may be suitable for integration into a solar cooling system. The analysis
is mainly based on the generic systems that were elaborated within IEA SHC Task 26 on
Solar Combisystems. An overview of these generic systems was published in 2000 (Suter et
al., 2000). In total, 21 generic systems were identified within Task 26.
2.2 Generic Solar Combisystems Without Cooling Function from IEA SHC
Task 26
The 21 generic solar combisystems identified by IEA SHC Task 26 differ from one another in
many ways.
Two systems (#20 and #21) are designed for seasonal heat storage. The excess solar heat
in the summer months is stored to be used in the winter months. Therefore, a combination
with a solar cooling system does not make much sense and these systems are excluded
from this analysis of suitability of solar combisystems for integration of a cooling system.
Fig. 1 shows a classification of the remaining 19 systems according to three categories
which will be explained in detail in the following three subchapters. The letters and numbers
in the figure refer to the IEA SHC Task 26 lettering scheme of system categories and the
IEA SHC Task 26 system numbering respectively.
TYPE OF SOLAR CHARGING
A
No storage tank
for space heating
B
Well stratified tank
Multiple tanks and/or
multiple inlet/outlet pipes
C
Natural convection
(Tank not well straftified)
D
Well stratified tank
Built-in stratifying device
M
DHW preparation inside
DHW preparation inside
AUXILIARY HEAT MANAGEMENT CATEGORY
Parallel Mode Mixed Mode
S
P
Can be with integrated burner
AS (# 2)
AP (# 1,# 3)
DHW preparation outside
DHW preparation inside
BS (# 10, # 18)
DHW preparation outside
CM (# 5, # 6)
CM (# 7, # 8, # 9, # 11)
DHW preparation inside
DHW preparation outside
BM (# 13,# 14) DM (# 15, # 19)
BP (# 14)
CS (# 4)
DHW preparation inside
DS (# 16, 17)
Fig. 1: Generic solar combisystems according to IEA SHC Task 26.
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