Comparative study between photovoltaic and thermal solar cooling

Abstract

In recent years, research on thermal comfort in the building sector has increasingly focused on renewable energy as an alternative energy. TRNSYS software is used for modeling two types of air conditioning systems. A photovoltaic wage air conditioning system that refers to all air conditioning techniques using electricity produced by photovoltaic panels. The second thermal energy absorption system produced by a vacuum tube solar sensor. In this work, were compared the performance of solar thermal air conditioning and solar photovoltaic air conditioning under the influence of a different conditions, temperature, surface area, auxiliary energy, yield, ring fraction and cost. The results shows that the total energy consumed in the mechanical compression system is very high and up to 170%, compared to the absorption system during the hot season.