The Potential of Solar Air Heating in the Turkish Industrial Sector

Authors

  • Balázs Bokor
    Affiliation

    Department of Building Service and Process Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, H-1111 Budapest, Műegyetem rkp. 3-9., Hungary

  • Hacer Akhan
    Affiliation

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Trakya University, TR-22030 Edirne, Ahmet Karadeniz Campus, Turkey

  • Dogan Eryener
    Affiliation

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Trakya University, TR-22030 Edirne, Ahmet Karadeniz Campus, Turkey

  • László Kajtár
    Affiliation

    Department of Building Service and Process Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, H-1111 Budapest, Műegyetem rkp. 3-9., Hungary

https://doi.org/10.3311/PPme.13028

Abstract

Transpired solar collector (TSC) systems are simple solutions for the preheating of ventilation air with solar energy. Their performance is a function of several environmental factors, so the climatic conditions of the location play an important role. In this paper, the effect of different climatic zones on the thermal performance of the TSC is investigated. To exclude other sources of influence, the same reference industrial building is examined in four Turkish locations (Antalya, Istanbul, Ankara and Sivas) representing different climatic conditions. RETScreen simulation is carried out for all four regions to obtain the drop of conventional heating requirement in case absorber azimuth of 0°, 45° and 90°. To illustrate the performance, temperature rise, heating energy savings and annual solar fraction are presented. Generally, it can be stated that a location with cold climate and high solar radiation at the same time benefits most from the use of a TSC system. A mathematical correlation has been found showing the solar fraction's dependence on solar radiation and heating degree days. Finally, simulation results have been compared to a set of measurement data from an industrial building's TSC system near Istanbul.

Keywords:

solar air heating system, solar space heating, transpired solar collector, unglazed transpired collector

Published Online

2018-11-19

How to Cite

Bokor, B., Akhan, H., Eryener, D., Kajtár, L. “The Potential of Solar Air Heating in the Turkish Industrial Sector”, Periodica Polytechnica Mechanical Engineering, 63(1), pp. 57–66, 2019. https://doi.org/10.3311/PPme.13028

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