ملخص
Abstract
In spite of their widely-spread use across the globe, the domestic solar water heaters are still subject to essential, technical difficulties that need to be deeply studied. Such technical impediments are latent in how appropriate to each other the different, mutually-dependent components of the system are; and how appropriate they are to the prevailing meteorological conditions of the application site which is still under research and development. This thesis presents a clear-cut, straightforward mathematical model that determines the basic factors influencing such systems, and, in specific, discusses the optimum design month as well as the optimum tilt angle of the solar collector, bearing in mind the contribution of the energy obtained to meet the targeted load. Furthermore, the study considers the required thermal capacity that should be provided by the solar collector. To avoid assumptions that could be unjustified in practice, and to get as precise results as possible, the study was thoroughly based on normalized mathematical parameters. In the case where the total demand for energy used in water heating is to be fully satisfied by the solar energy system, provided that the required temperature of the heated water is 45oC and consumption is 100 (litre/day) per person for a given house, the results of the study concluded that according to the climate information of Tripoli city, 32.68°N latitude, the optimum design month is December, the optimum tilt angle is 75°, and the solar collector area fulfilling the following specifications: Glazed type, Fr () = 0.58, and Fr UL= 4.00 (W/m2oC) is 2.83 square meters. On the other hand, the results suggest an optimum tilt angle of 50°, which is the same angle obtained by the traditional technique, and solar collector area of 1.6 square meters if up to 80% of demand is to be covered by solar energy.