Potential of Direct Solar Thermal Driven Absorption Heat Pump in Hybrid Systems

Renewable Thermal Energy Systems: Characterization of the Most Important Thermal Energy Applications in Buildings and Industry (Report 1)

“…found that while the capital expenditures were higher than current solutions, if there was a cooling requirement as well as a heating load, the hybrid RTES could reduce energy costs by up to 70% (Gritzer et al 2018). Similarly, when PVT was coupled with heat pumps as a hybrid RTES, the thermally driven heat pump (which also had grid backup when the PV was not generating electricity), was not economically viable under conditions at that time, but could be valuable over a 20-year period (Sanz Martinez, Fuente Dacal, and Martín Miranda 2018).…”

“…Another area of considerable research, modeling, and analysis is the use of photovoltaics (PV) or photovoltaic thermal (PVT) coupled with solar thermal and a heat pump for the provision of building demands (Sanz Martinez, Fuente Dacal, and Martín Miranda 2018; Gritzer et al 2018). The Austrian project "SolarHybrid" was focused on the optimization and hybridization of both the solar thermal and the PV technologies that could then couple to a variety of heat pumps and chillers to meet the heating and cooling loads of a building (Gritzer et al 2018). Gritzer et al…”