{"id":663,"date":"2017-12-15T14:29:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T13:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xn--solare-prozesswrme-ztb.info\/?page_id=663"},"modified":"2017-12-18T14:33:12","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T13:33:12","slug":"vorauslegung-solaranlage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.xn--solare-prozesswrme-ztb.info\/en\/vorauslegung-solaranlage\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Plant Sizing and Layout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gmail-msonormal\">This tool enables the quick energetic prediction of solar plants for the generation of process heat. After entering the key process parameters, the collector area and storage volume are automatically calculated, dimensioned to cover the summer process heat demand. In addition, the annual utilization rate (annual efficiency) and specific yield of the solar system are calculated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail-msonormal\">Please fill out the fields marked with an asterisk (*). If known, fill in all other additional fields.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<form id=\"auslegung\" name=\"auslegung\" enctype=\"multipart\/form-data\" method=\"post\" accept-charset=\"UTF-8\"><div class=\"showError\">Please fill out all mandatory fields<\/div><div class=\"row\"><fieldset><legend>Process temperature<span class=\"required\"> * <\/span><\/legend><div class=\"form-group\"><label>Return temperature<span class=\"required\"> * <\/span><span class=\"tooltip\" aria-label=\"Return (minimum) temperature of the heat sink (process) to be heated with solar energy.\">?<\/span><\/label><input type=\"text\" name=\"t_rl\" maxlength=\"4\" class=\"requiredElm\" value=\"\" placeholder=\"e.g. 15\"><\/div><div class=\"form-group\"><label>Flow temperature<span class=\"required\"> * <\/span><span class=\"tooltip\" aria-label=\"Flow temperature or max. temperature of solar assisted heat sink, respectively.\">?<\/span><\/label><input type=\"text\" name=\"t_vl\" maxlength=\"4\" class=\"requiredElm\" value=\"\" placeholder=\"e.g. 40\"><\/div><\/fieldset><fieldset><legend><\/legend><div class=\"form-group\"><label class=\"no-padding-left\"><strong>Collector type<\/strong><span class=\"required\"> * <\/span><span class=\"tooltip\" aria-label=\"At low process temperatures (< 50 \u00b0C) low-priced flat-plate collectors are usually best suited. At higher temperatures, advanced flat-plate , vacuum tube, or CPC collectors are becoming increasingly suitable.\">?<\/span><\/label><SELECT name=\"coltype\" id=\"id_coltype\" size=\"1\" onchange=\"updaterecommendedratiorangeandslider()\" class=\"requiredElm\"><OPTION value=\"FK\">Flat plate collector<\/OPTION><OPTION value=\"FK-DG\">High temperature flat plate collector<\/OPTION><OPTION value=\"VRK\">Evacuated tube collector<\/OPTION><OPTION value=\"CPC\">CPC-Evacuated tube collector<\/OPTION><\/SELECT><\/div><div class=\"form-group\"><label>&nbsp;<span class=\"tooltip\" aria-label=\"High efficiency collectors have high specific solar yields, though are more expensive. They are only recommended when installation space is limited or higher temperatures are required. The specific characteristics of advanced and high efficiency collectors can be found in the SolFood Guideline for the preliminary design of solar process heat plants (page 31).\">?<\/span><\/label><SELECT name=\"colsubtype\" size=\"1\" ><OPTION value=\"Verbesserter Kollektor\">Advanced collector<\/OPTION><OPTION value=\"Hocheffizienzkollektor\">High performance collector<\/OPTION><\/SELECT><\/div><\/fieldset><fieldset><legend><\/legend><div class=\"form-group\"><label class=\"no-padding-left\"><strong>No. of heat exchangers<\/strong><span class=\"tooltip\" aria-label=\"The number of required heat exchangers influences the temperature level of the solar plant. Two are often required, one to charge the storage and the other to discharge to the process.\">?<\/span><\/label><SELECT name=\"nr_hxu\" size=\"1\" class=\"selectpicker requiredElm\"><OPTION value=\"\">please insert here<\/OPTION><OPTION value=\"1\" >1<\/OPTION><OPTION value=\"2\" >2<\/OPTION><OPTION value=\"3\" >3<\/OPTION><OPTION value=\"4\" >4<\/OPTION><OPTION value=\"5\" >5<\/OPTION><OPTION value=\"6\" >6<\/OPTION><OPTION value=\"7\" >7<\/OPTION><OPTION value=\"8\" >8<\/OPTION><OPTION value=\"9\" >9<\/OPTION><OPTION value=\"10\" >10<\/OPTION><\/SELECT><\/div><\/fieldset><fieldset><legend>Load profile<span class=\"required\"> * <\/span><\/legend><div class=\"form-group\"><label>Daily load profile<span class=\"required\"> * <\/span><span class=\"tooltip\" aria-label=\"Daily Load: The heat requirement is mainly between 8:00 and 18:00.  |  Constant Load: the heat requirement is nearly constant over a 24 hour period.  |  Bath Heating: Heat is mainly needed early morning to midday.\">?<\/span><\/label><SELECT name=\"prof_d\" id=\"id_prof_d\" size=\"1\" onchange=\"updaterecommendedratiorangeandslider()\" class=\"requiredElm\"><OPTION value=\"Tageslast\">Daytime<\/OPTION><OPTION value=\"Badbeheizung\">Bath heating<\/OPTION><OPTION value=\"Konstant\">Constant<\/OPTION><\/SELECT><\/div><div class=\"form-group\"><label>Weekly load profile<span class=\"required\"> * <\/span><span class=\"tooltip\" aria-label=\"Indicate if heat is needed 5 or 7 days a week\">?<\/span><\/label><SELECT name=\"prof_w\" size=\"1\" ><OPTION value=\"5 Tagewoche\">5 days per week<\/OPTION><OPTION value=\"Konstant\">Constant<\/OPTION><\/SELECT><\/div><\/fieldset><fieldset><legend><\/legend><div class=\"form-group\"><label class=\"no-padding-left\"><strong>Location<\/strong><span class=\"required\"> * <\/span><span class=\"tooltip\" aria-label=\"Is the planned solar heating plant located in Germany or Europe?\">?<\/span><\/label><SELECT name=\"location\" id=\"in\" size=\"1\" ><OPTION value=\"DE\">Germany<\/OPTION><OPTION value=\"EU\">Europe<\/OPTION><\/SELECT><\/div><div class=\"form-group\"><div class=\"breitengrad\" style=\"display:none\"><label>Latitude<span class=\"required\"> * <\/span><span class=\"tooltip\" aria-label=\"For locations outside of Germany, the latitude must be specified.\">?<\/span><\/label><input type=\"text\" name=\"breitengrad\" maxlength=\"8\" class=\"requiredElm\" value=\"\" placeholder=\"e.g. 50\"><\/div><div class=\"plz\" style=\"display:inline\"><label>ZIP<span class=\"required\"> * <\/span><span class=\"tooltip\" aria-label=\"To determine the climate data (temperature and irradiation), please enter the post code.\">?<\/span><\/label><input type=\"text\" name=\"zipcode\" maxlength=\"8\" class=\"requiredElm\" value=\"\" placeholder=\"please insert here\"><\/div><\/div><\/fieldset><fieldset><legend><\/legend><div class=\"form-group\"><label class=\"no-padding-left\"><strong>Daily heat demand in summer in kWh\/d<\/strong><span class=\"required\"> * <\/span><span class=\"tooltip\" aria-label=\"The solar heating plant is sized in a way to cover the full demand of the heat sink on a summer day with high irradiation. Usually, this yields in the most economic plant size.\">?<\/span><\/label><input type=\"text\" name=\"qsummerd\" maxlength=\"8\" class=\"requiredElm\" value=\"\" placeholder=\"e.g. 1000\"><\/div><\/fieldset><fieldset><legend>Spec. storage capacity in kWh\/m<sup>2<\/sup><span class=\"required\"> * <\/span><\/legend><div class=\"form-group\"><label>Recommendation<span class=\"tooltip\" aria-label=\"A higher specific storage capacity can positively affect the specific yield of the solar heating plant, but also increases system costs. For a 5-day week, the storage capacity should be in the higher range of the recommended interval so more heat can be stored during the weekend.\">?<\/span><\/label><div id=\"id_recommendedratiorange\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"form-group\"><label>Own input<span class=\"required\"> * <\/span><\/label><input type=\"range\" id=\"id_sliderratio\" min=\"2.0\" max=\"8.5\" step =\"0.1\" value=\"3.7\" onChange=\"printValue('id_sliderratio','id_ratio4storage')\"\/><input type=\"text\" name=\"ratio4storage\" id=\"id_ratio4storage\" maxlength=\"8\"  class=\"requiredElm\" value=\"\" onChange=\"printValue('id_ratio4storage','idsliderratio')\" placeholder=\"please insert here\"><\/div><\/fieldset><\/div><div><p><strong>Optional input<\/strong><br\/>&nbsp;<\/p><\/div><div class=\"row\"><fieldset><legend>Conventional heat supply<\/legend><div class=\"form-group\"><label>Final energy source<span class=\"tooltip\" aria-label=\"Please chose the energy source that is used for heat generation at the moment.\">?<\/span><\/label><SELECT name=\"convsys_fuel\" id=\"id_convsys_fuel\" size=\"1\" onchange=\"updateconvsysdropdown('id_convsys_type',this)\" class=\"requiredElm\"><OPTION value=\"Erdgas\">Natural gas<\/OPTION><OPTION value=\"\u00d6l\">Oil<\/OPTION><OPTION value=\"Elektrisch\">Electricity<\/OPTION><OPTION value=\"Holz\">Wood<\/OPTION><OPTION value=\"Sonstige\">Others<\/OPTION><\/SELECT><\/div><div class=\"form-group\"><label>Heating system<span class=\"tooltip\" aria-label=\"Please choose a conventional heating system that best matches the system in operation.\">?<\/span><\/label><SELECT name=\"convsys_type\" id=\"id_convsys_type\" size=\"1\" ><OPTION value=\"\"><\/OPTION><\/SELECT><\/div><\/fieldset><fieldset><legend>Yearly energy consumption<\/legend><div class=\"form-group\"><label>Specified as<span class=\"tooltip\" aria-label=\"Choose final energy source, to insert a known fuel (based on caloric value) or electricity consumption. Select net energy when specifying the process heat consumption without conversion losses.\">?<\/span><\/label><SELECT name=\"yearlydemand_type\" id=\"id_convsys_fuel\" size=\"1\" ><OPTION value=\"Endenergie\">Final energy<\/OPTION><OPTION value=\"Nutzenergie\">Net energy<\/OPTION><\/SELECT><\/div><div class=\"form-group\"><label>Value in MWh\/a<span class=\"tooltip\" aria-label=\"Please insert the yearly energy consumption of the heat sink in MWh\/a.\">?<\/span><\/label><input type=\"text\" name=\"yearlydemand\" id=\"yearlydemand\" maxlength=\"8\" value=\"\" onChange=\"\" placeholder=\"please insert here\"><\/div><div class=\"form-group\"><label><strong>Azimuth in \u00b0<\/strong><span class=\"tooltip\" aria-label=\"An azimuth angle of 0 \u00b0 corresponds to a south facing orientation. -90 \u00b0 corresponds to an east and + 90 \u00b0 west orientation. Without specification, a south orientation is automatically used for calculations.\">?<\/span><\/label><input type=\"text\" name=\"azimuth\" id=\"azimuth\" maxlength=\"8\" value=\"\" onChange=\"\" placeholder=\"please insert here\"><\/div><div class=\"form-group\"><label>tilt angle in \u00b0<span class=\"tooltip\" aria-label=\"Please indicate the tile angle of the installed collectors. This may e.g. correspond to the roof pitch. 0 \u00b0 corresponds to a horizontal (flat) orientation. Without specification the optimal inclination is used for calculation.\">?<\/span><\/label><input type=\"text\" name=\"tilt\" id=\"tilt\" maxlength=\"8\" value=\"\" onChange=\"\" placeholder=\"please insert here\"><\/div><\/fieldset><\/div><div class=\"row row-button\"><div class=\"form-group\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"setbtn\" name=\"setbtn\" value=\"\" \/><input type=\"submit\" id=\"buttoncalcresults\" name=\"buttoncalcresults\" value=\"Calculate\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/form>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The calculated collector area represents the reasonable upper limit for collector area and storage volume. Increasing the collector area past this point will usually lead to overproduction in summer, decreasing economic feasibility.<\/p>\n<p>A smaller collector area results in an &#8220;undersized&#8221; system, which may have a positive effect on the specific yield of the solar system, depending on the temperature levels.<\/p>\n<p>The methodology for the preliminary design and all relevant parameters are described in detail in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solare-prozessw\u00e4rme.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Leitfaden_Machbarkeitsabschaetzung.pdf\">SolFood guideline<\/a> for the planning of solar process heat.<\/p>\n<p>The data entered by the user in this form are only for the purpose of calculating the size of solar process heat plants and will not be stored, transmitted or otherwise used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tool enables the quick energetic prediction of solar plants for the generation of process heat. 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