Publications related to Central solar heating

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Thermochromic coatings for overheating protection of solar thermal collectors - novel type of doping (TARGET95)

Overheating and the resulting stagnation of solar thermal collectors is a common problem even in central European latitudes. During stagnation, high temperatures lead to water evaporation, glycol degradation and stresses in the collector with increasing va ...

2018

Solar thermal and geothermal integration with low temperature CO 2 DENs

François Maréchal, Luc Girardin, Raluca-Ancuta Suciu

Taking into account the high efficiency of solar thermal collectors and the fact that heating demands represent around 80% of the total energy needs in residential buildings, it is of interest to integrate solar thermal systems to supply HVAC services. How ...

Elsevier2018

IntegrCiTy - D4.2 Report - Method towards key bottlenecks identification

Luc Girardin

The increasing use of renewable energy is a deep going trend [1] mainly supported by the sustained annual growth rate of solar photovoltaic (+45.5%), wind power (+24.0%) and Biogases (+12.8%) (Figure 1). In this context, decentralized power generation and ...

2018