Mobile HIL Test Bench for Low Cost Radiative Heating and Cooling Collectors
Abstract
This paper presents a mobile hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test bench that has been developed to simulate a solar assisted cooling and heating system for residential buildings in hot climates. The main component of the system is a low cost uncovered solar collector that is used for the production of night radiative cooling or daytime heating energy (hardware component). The collector was designed for low cost housing projects in Egypt, whose cooling and heating demand was modeled using the program TRNSYS (software component). The design and construction of a mobile HIL test bench is presented together with some performance results from the HIL-tests in cooling mode.