Review of the recent advances in solar assisted heat pumps integrated with renewable energy sources

• Autor(a) principal: Filipe Nogueira de Carvalho
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Willian Moreira Duarte, Luiz Machado
• Tipo de documento: Artigo de conferência
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFMG
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/58541
• topic: Solar assisted heat pump; Solar evaporator; Photovoltaic panels; Thermal energy; Evaporadores

This review article aims to investigate the arrangements, energy performance, economic viability and environmental impacts of solar assisted heat pumps (SAHP) integrated with renewable energy sources. Such equipments have been the object of recent studies in the area of energy and sustainability as it involves the conversion of solar energy into thermal energy to promote direct heating of water, space, drying, desalination and also expansion of the refrigerant fluid in the evaporator of the equipment. In addition it is also responsible for the conversion of photovoltaic energy to generate electric current to supply the compressor power demand when combined with photovoltaic panels. The renewable source energy production strategy to enhance the heat pump performance is a promising technology to fulfill the Net Zero Scenario. Furthermore, the increasing sales year after year demonstrate that SAHPs are able to completely overcome the heat demand provided by boilers that consume fossil fuels and contribute to accelerate the ozone layer depletion. The information presented in this article contribute with other researches and professionals interested in the SAHP and renewable energy sources technology.