Life Cycle Assessment and Economic Energy Efficiency of a Solar Thermal Installation in a Family House
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Título: | Life Cycle Assessment and Economic Energy Efficiency of a Solar Thermal Installation in a Family House |
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Autor/es: | Košičan, Jaroslav | Pardo Picazo, Miguel Ángel | Vilčeková, Silvia | Košičanová, Danica |
Grupo/s de investigación o GITE: | Ingeniería Hidráulica y Ambiental (IngHA) |
Centro, Departamento o Servicio: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Ingeniería Civil |
Palabras clave: | Solar thermal | Domestic hot water | T*SOL | Life cycle assessment | OneClickLCA | Multi-criteria analysis | Flat-plate collector | Slovakia |
Área/s de conocimiento: | Ingeniería Hidráulica |
Fecha de publicación: | 20-feb-2021 |
Editor: | MDPI |
Cita bibliográfica: | Košičan J, Pardo Picazo MÁ, Vilčeková S, Košičanová D. Life Cycle Assessment and Economic Energy Efficiency of a Solar Thermal Installation in a Family House. Sustainability. 2021; 13(4):2305. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13042305 |
Resumen: | Designing solar strategies is a powerful step forward to set up an adequate residential house in terms of energy. Many types of research have simulated the energy needs for residential buildings. Designing an improper installation can contribute to a growth in the overall energy expenditure in ensuring thermal comfort. The use of solar thermal processes in Slovakia is on a rise as compared to recent years. This study models twelve solar water heating systems created on the roof of the household. Solar energy techniques are carried out to comply with the demands of heating and domestic hot water. The analysis deals with the most efficient alternative for the arranged solar systems of the building. Considering these installations and the corresponding overall prices of machinery, the best workable alternative is selected. The potential energy performance of auxiliary heating and the energy output of the solar thermal installation are examined. The required amounts of the different energy contributions are modelled and simulated in specific software for a family house in Kosice, Slovakia. We determine the limits of the design for an apartment and analyse which procedure is used to provide the typical average water expenditure and heating need, covering a multi-criteria analysis considering costs, energy, and life cycle analysis of every installation. This approach can support professionals to decide the best scheme considering these criteria, and this method can be satisfactorily applied. In these conditions, converting a conventional gas boiler into a solar thermal system involves monthly economic savings of around EUR 140–250, with payback periods of 2.5–7 years. The energy requirements are fully covered by the solar thermal schemes and the life cycle assessment resulted in reasonable impacts on the environment. |
Patrocinador/es: | This study was financially supported by Grant Agency of Slovak Republic to support project No. 1/0512/20. This paper is also the result of the Project implementation: University Science Park TECHNICOM for Innovation Applications Supported by Knowledge Technology, ITMS: 26220220182, supported by the Research & Development Operational Programme funded by the ERDFI. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/113140 |
ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
DOI: | 10.3390/su13042305 |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipo: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Derechos: | © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Revisión científica: | si |
Versión del editor: | https://doi.org/10.3390/su13042305 |
Aparece en las colecciones: | INV - IngHA - Artículos de Revistas |
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