Techno-Economic Investigation of Using Solar Energy for Heating Swimming Pools in Buildings and Producing Hydrogen: A Case Study

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Almutairi, Khalid
Mostafaeipour, Ali
Baghaei, Negin
Techato, Kuaanan
Chowdhury, Shahariar
Jahangiri, Mehdi
Rezaei, Mostafa
Hosseini Dehshiri, Seyyed Jalaladdin
Goudarzi, Hossein
Issakhov, Alibek
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Solar energy is a free and environmentally friendly supply of power that has negligible impact on the environment, and it has long been used by humans through different methods. However, solar energy technology would use for heating water for buildings as an alternative resource, which would help reduce CO2 reduction and safe environment. A data analysis was performed using the RETScreen software, and the financial outcomes that were calculated using two methods. Clearly, the software is operational with two different methods. Both methods indicate that this project is economically feasible. The aim of this study is to evaluate the utilization of solar energy for household and commercial purposes. The first goal is to explore the technical, economic, and environmental aspects of using evacuated glass tube solar collectors to heat water in an indoor pool in the building, having an area of 50 m2, in the city of Yazd, Iran. The second goal is to evaluate the amount of hydrogen that can be obtained from the installation photovoltaic systems in the province. The results also show that this project will decrease greenhouse gas emissions by 142 ton-CO2 over 20 years of the useful life of a collector, thereby indicating the possible significant role of such collectors in the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Furthermore, the findings indicate that installing a single X21-345 photovoltaic system with a performance rate of 20% can result in the production of 2.1 kg of hydrogen annually.

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Frontiers in Energy Research

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9

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© 2021 Almutairi, Mostafaeipour, Baghaei, Techato, Chowdhury, Jahangiri, Rezaei, Hosseini Dehshiri, Goudarzi and Issakhov. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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Nanotechnology

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solar collectors

heating systems

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Almutairi, K; Mostafaeipour, A; Baghaei, N; Techato, K; Chowdhury, S; Jahangiri, M; Rezaei, M; Hosseini Dehshiri, SJ; Goudarzi, H; Issakhov, A, Techno-Economic Investigation of Using Solar Energy for Heating Swimming Pools in Buildings and Producing Hydrogen: A Case Study, Frontiers in Energy Research, 2021, 9, pp. 680103

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