Preliminary Assessment on the Potential Use of Solar Energy in House Heating: A Case Study of an Elementary Classroom with Attached Sunspace in Lintan County, Gansu Province
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Guanghua, Luo; Shuwen, Niu; Xifeng, Zhang; Yihan, Li
- Source
- 2011 International Conference on Computer Distributed Control and Intelligent Environmental Monitoring Computer Distributed Control and Intelligent Environmental Monitoring (CDCIEM), 2011 International Conference on. :1637-1641 Feb, 2011
- Subject
- Computing and Processing
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Decision support systems
Helium
Hafnium
Monitoring
Computers
Distributed control
Attached sunspace
Solar energy
Heating
Utilization potential
- Language
Fruitful resources of solar energy in China have a huge prospect to development and utilization. In this paper, an elementary school classroom located in alpine region has been studied to estimate the potential benefits of solar energy used in house heating. The effectiveness of Warming in classroom with attached sunspace has been analyzed based on solar radiation received at unit area. Results show that attached sunspace is possible to receive the effective solar radiation of average 41.6 MJ/M2¡¤Day and achieve indoor warming of daily average 13¡æ in a heating period (from September of this year to April of next year). They are consistent with the actual results of survey. Therefore there will be a widespread prospect of utilization of solar energy in house heating, if attached sunspace is constructed by inexpensive material.