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CLEAN ENERGY PROJECT ANALYSIS:
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SOLAR AIR HEATING PROJECT ANALYSIS
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Minister of Natural Resources Canada 2001 - 2004.
ISBN: 0-662-35673-X Catalogue no.: M39-100/2003E-PDF Minister of Natural Resources Canada 2001 - 2004.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 SOLAR AIR HEATING BACKGROUND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.1 Description of Solar Air Heating Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1.2 Solar Air Heating System Application Markets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.2.1 Commercial and residential buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.2.2 Industrial buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 1.2.3 Process air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2 RETSCREEN SOLAR AIR HEATING PROJECT MODEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.1 Collected Solar Energy Savings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
2.1.1 2.1.2 2.1.3 2.1.4 Usable incident solar energy calculation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Average collector effi ciency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Solar utilization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Active solar energy savings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7
Building Heat Recapture Savings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Destratifi cation Savings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Energy Savings for Heating Systems for Non-Industrial Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Energy Savings for Heating Systems for Industrial Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Validation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
REFERENCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
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