Cost reduction trends in Solar Water Heating Systems
Due to technological feasibility and economic viability among various other applications, Solar Water Heating systems are one of the most popular systems of utilizing solar energy as the energy source. There exist numerous low-temperature applications for various end-uses, such as residential hot water production, space heating/cooling, commercial buildings, hotels, schools, swimming pool heating, industrial process heat, solar-assisted district heating, desalination, and crop drying. Solar Water Heating technologies are already well developed and can be easily marketed at considerably low prices. From the energy utilization perspective, conducted an energy analysis based on ‘‘Three Procedure Theory’’ in which three sub-procedures, such as conversion procedure, utilization procedure, and recycling procedure are closely related to each other. To provide a good assessment of saving the cost of the system and to increase the efficiency of the domestic scale Solar Water Heaters, an en...