Assessing the Feasibility and Economic Viability of Solar CPC for Absorption Cooling System in Diverse Indian Climate Zones
Abstract
The present work analyzes the feasibility of a solar absorption cooling system in the Indian context. A compound parabolic collector (CPC) is used with a single-effect vapour absorption chiller to meet a building cooling load. The thermal economic and environmental performance analysis is carried out for four cities in different climate zones of the country using TRNSYS software. The effect of parameters like solar collector area, storage volume, and collector slope have been observed on the solar fraction (SF), auxiliary heat energy consumption, collector useful energy gain, payback period (PBP), and levelized cost of cooling (LCOC). The optimized values of the parameters have been decided based on the payback period and solar fraction.
Keywords
Trnsys, Solar cooling, Cpc, Economic analysis, Absorption chiller