Operation strategy of cross-season solar heat storage heating system in an alpine high-altitude area

Abstract

The full use of renewable energy sources such as solar energy to meet the various energy supply needs of buildings is now a research focus and an industry development trend, as energy consumption has been increasing and environmental pollution has become a serious problem. In the high-cold and high-altitude area in western China, due to the abundant solar energy and hydropower resources, the use of electric auxiliary cross-season solar heat storage heating system (CSHSHS) is an effective way to achieve clean heating. In this article, the authors applied a CSHSHS in a typical town in the Sichuan West Plateau and analysed and compared three operation strategies: heating storage priority control mode; electro-thermally assisted priority control mode and hybrid control mode. The results show that the heat storage priority control mode would require a large installed capacity of electrical auxiliary heat. The power consumption of the electro-thermally assisted priority control mode is high. The hybrid control mode can effectively reduce the installed capacity of the electrical auxiliary heat and the power consumption in the heating season. The solar fraction of the hybrid control mode was 38.29%, which has an obvious advantage. The results are of great engineering significance for optimizing the operation strategy of CSHSHS.