Solar Thermal Cooling vs. Photovoltaic Solar Cooling in (MENA) Region. Analytical and Comparative Study for Solar Thermal Cooling and Photovoltaic Solar Cooling in the MENA Region

      Аннотация: A comparison and analyses of solar thermal and solar photovoltaic (PV) air-conditioning technologies for a Typical Single Family House (TSFH) in two different MENA climates, Aswan-Egypt and Aqaba-Jordan, are performed. The building cooling demand is firstly obtained from annual building simulation in TRNSYS software. Based on these simulation results, three scenarios are designed in order to compensate the TSFH’s annual cooling demand in each selected climate. These scenarios are solar thermal air-conditioning with storage (absorption chiller), PV air-conditioning without storage and PV air-conditioning with storage. The cooling compensation is simulated by Matlab-Simulink for each scenario.

Ключевые слова: MENA Middle East and North Africa, Solar PV Photovoltaic air conditioning system, solar thermal cooling, TRNSYS TRaNsient SYstem Simulation program, NERC National Energy Research Center, IWES Institute for Wind Energy, Energy System Technology