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2016
vi, 34 pages : color illustrations, color maps
Masters Thesis
Academic theses
Text
eng
Donovan, Benjamin
Rajadas, John
Kannan, Arunachala
Rogers, Bradley
Arizona State University
Partial requirement for: M.S., Arizona State University, 2016
Includes bibliographical references (page 27)
Field of study: Engineering
With the need to address the world's growing energy demand, many new<br/><br/>alternative and renewable energy sources are being researched and developed. Many<br/><br/>of these technologies are in their infancy, still being too inefficient or too costly to<br/><br/>implement on a large scale. This list of alternative energies include biofuels,<br/><br/>geothermal power, solar energy, wind energy and hydroelectric power. This thesis<br/><br/>focuses on developing a concentrating solar thermal energy unit for the application<br/><br/>of an on-demand hot water system with phase change material. This system already<br/><br/>has a prototype constructed and needs refinement in several areas in order to<br/><br/>increase its efficiency to determine if the system could ever reach a point of<br/><br/>feasibility in a residential application. Having put additional control refining<br/><br/>systems on the solar water heat collector, it can be deduced that the efficiency has<br/><br/>increased. However, due to limited testing and analysis it is undetermined just how<br/><br/>much the efficiency of the system has increased. At minimum, the capabilities of the<br/><br/>research platform have dramatically increased, allowing future research to more<br/><br/>accurately study the dynamics of the system as well as conduct studies in more<br/><br/>targeted areas of engineering. In this aspect, the thesis was successful.
Engineering
Energy
Sustainability
Solar water heaters
Energy Storage
Development of automated solar tracker for a solar concentrating water heater with phase change energy storage