Performance evaluation of a novel PVT-GSHP heating system on energy-efficient poultry houses: long-term monitoring

Solar-assisted localized ventilation system for poultry brooding

Tugba Gurler, Theo Elmer, Yuanlong Cui, Siddig Omer and Saffa Riffat

International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies, 2021, vol. 16, issue 2, 393-406

Abstract: The case study presented in this paper is an innovative ground source heat pump (GSHP) system constituted by a hybrid Photovoltaic Thermal (PVT) solar system for poultry houses. Farmers tend to not to apply GSHPs because of the high prices of excavation and time consumption. The innovative heat pump system assessed in this study comprises of a new type of heat exchangers; a thin-tube solar polyethylene heat exchanger installed between roof tiles and PV panels and a novel vertical ground heat exchanger to utilize the heat stored in the soil. The heating system applied to a poultry house are monitored and evaluated under a variety of environmental and operating conditions to achieve annual/long-term efficiency of the heating system in Kirton, UK. The maximum heating demand of the poultry house is determined 34.4 MWh/PC while the minimum is 11,1 MWh/PC. The monitored results show that the heat pump produced 15.02 MWh of thermal energy per annum. Solar PV and heat pump worked very well together with solar PV covering all the heat pump’s annual electrical energy requirement and generated 8.74 MWh of extra electricity exported to the grid. The seasonal coefficient of performance is found 3.73 through a year. The novel PVT-GSHP heating system is a very promising solution for high fossil fuel consumption in the agriculture industry and the energy savings of the whole system can be noticeably increased dependent up on the system controlling.

Keywords: poultry house; energy efficiency; solar polyethylene heat exchanger (PHE); vertical ground heat exchanger (VGHE); PVT-GSHP heating system (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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