abstract: With the need to address the world's growing energy demand, many new
alternative and renewable energy sources are being researched and developed. Many
of these technologies are in their infancy, still being too inefficient or too costly to
implement on a large scale. This list of alternative energies include biofuels,
geothermal power, solar energy, wind energy and hydroelectric power. This thesis
focuses on developing a concentrating solar thermal energy unit for the application
of an on-demand hot water system with phase change material. This system already
has a prototype constructed and needs refinement in several areas in order to
increase its efficiency to determine if the system could ever reach a point of
feasibility in a residential application. Having put additional control refining
systems on the solar water heat collector, it can be deduced that the efficiency has
increased. However, due to limited testing and analysis it is undetermined just how
much the efficiency of the system has increased. At minimum, the capabilities of the
research platform have dramatically increased, allowing future research to more
accurately study the dynamics of the system as well as conduct studies in more
targeted areas of engineering. In this aspect, the thesis was successful. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Engineering 2016
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:38469 |
| Date | January 2016 |
| Contributors | Donovan, Benjamin James (Author), Rajadas, John (Advisor), Kannan, Arunachala (Committee member), Rogers, Bradley (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher) |
| Source Sets | Arizona State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Masters Thesis |
| Format | 41 pages |
| Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/, All Rights Reserved |
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