Assessment of solar thermal power generation potential in India

The effectiveness of heating of housing unit by renewable energy source

“…Construction of housing units is mostly made of standard bricks, concrete, isolation and plaster. However, in terms of layout and layer thicknesses of construction materials there were divided five types of walls (Sharma et al 2015). The arrangement of these types of walls in building structures is shown in Fig.…”

“…Heat transfer coefficient is actually the inverse of the thermal resistance (Table 1). Therefore, the higher its value, the better thermal insulation properties material or structure has (Sharma et al 2015;Manzone et al 2015). External cladding of housing units is also formed by windows and doors.…”

“…Fuel wood contains free and bound moisture in its structure (Sharma et al 2015). During the combustion of fuel wood it increases the heating value of the heat required for evaporation of the moisture contained in it.…”

“…Fuel wood, however, is largely sold in units of volume, not weight. Fuel wood volume immediately after extraction is changing over time, specific gravity of drying fuel wood decreases, respectively (Sharma et al 2015). The average weight of white acacia in the extraction is 780 kg/m 3 and absolute moisture 30%.…”

“…Dendromass is a product consisting of lignified plant matter or of lignified plant matter from agriculture (Ampatzi et al 2013), wood-processing industry or from other sources such as e.g. communal sphere that can be used to produce energy (Trenčiansky 2007;Sharma et al 2015). In the last 30 years, in order to increase production of woody biomass for energy purposes plantations of woody biomass were established of fast-growing trees with a minimum production volume 10 m 3 /ha/year (Dzurenda et al 2010;Sovacool 2012).…”