Experimental Performance of an Advanced Air-Type Photovoltaic/Thermal (PVT) Collector with Direct Expansion Air Handling Unit (AHU)

Evaluation of a PVT Air Collector

Hybrid Photovoltaic Thermal (PVT) collectors are an emerging technology that combines PV and solar thermal systems in a single solar collector producing heat and electricity simultaneously. The focus of this thesis work is to evaluate the performance of unglazed open loop PVT air system integrated on a garage roof in Borlänge. As it is thought to have a significant potential for preheating vent...

Experimental Investigation of Thermal Performance in an Advanced Solar Collector with Spiral Tube

This paper reports the thermal performance of a new cylindrical solar collector based on an experimental investigation with this difference that instead of the collector tube with absorbent coating, coil into a spiral copper tube is placed in the center of the collector. The spiral shape of the tube, heat transfer without disruption or increase the heat transfer area, is increasing. In this cas...

Design and Implementation of an Intelligent Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC) for Air Handling Unit (AHU) for Smart House

Intelligent Building Automation System (IBAS) is one of the heaviest researched areas motivated by the continuous high demand on economically-effective systems that are designed to provide a desirable controlled space for various organizations. IBAS has been developed along with the rapid sophistication of the information and control technologies in this study. The main objective of the continu...

Cooling output optimization of an air handling unit

A data-driven optimization approach for minimization of the cooling output of an air handling unit (AHU) is presented. The models used in this research are built with data mining algorithms. The performance of dynamic models build by four different data mining algorithms is studied. A model extracted by a neural network is selected for identifying the functional mapping between specific outputs...

Process monitoring and fault classification for an air handling unit