ENERGY EFFICIENT SOLAR HEAT SUPPLY SYSTEMS FOR BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES

Abstract

Today, the energy sector of Ukraine requires significant consumption of traditional energy sources (oil, gas, coal, nuclear energy). However, their use is associated with a number of difficulties, including thermal, chemical, and radioactive contamination of the environment and the exhaustion of their reserves. The paper is devoted to solving the actual problem of improving the efficiency of solar heat supply systems with solar collectors. An analysis of the potential of solar energy and existing solar heat supply systems is presented. The advantages and disadvantages of various solar collector designs and methods of their research are analyzed. The analysis of the main directions for improving the efficiency of solar collectors and solar heat supply systems, in general, is presented. An improved solar heat supply system with the proposed design of a solar collector is obtained and its temperature characteristics are established depending on the intensity of solar energy intake.