Solar Heat Worldwide 2005

Weiss, Werner; Bergmann, Irene; Faninger, G.

doi:10.18777/ieashc-shw-2005-0001

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“…China has been leading in the global solar thermal market for several years (Islam et al, 2013). In 2015, China accounted for 71% of the total installed thermal capacity in the world (Wang et al, 2015;Weiss et al, 2017). The case region of this study, Shandong Province, is one of the major production bases of SWH systems in China (Luo and Huo, 2003).…”

Section: Shandong Province and The Swh Industrymentioning

confidence: 99%

The verticality of policy mixes for sustainability transitions: A case study of solar water heating in China

Huang

2019

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Climate change and sustainable development are the defining challenges of the modern era. The field of sustainability transitions seeks systematic solutions for fundamental transformations of socio-technical systems towards sustainability, and exploring the role of policy mixes has been a central research agenda within the field. In the extant literature, there exists a lack of both conceptual and empirical research on the vertical dimension of policy mixes for sustainability transitions. This study provides a multilevel and evolutionary interpretation of the vertical interactions of policy mixes in the process of industrial path development towards sustainability transitions. An exemplary case of solar water heating (SWH) technology in Shandong Province in China is presented, capturing both the bottom-up and top-down processes of interactions. On the one hand, urban-level policy initiatives can inform higher-level policymaking; on the other hand, national-level priorities can greatly configure policy strategies for lower-level governments. Moreover, as the industry matures, the interactions of multilevel policy mixes evolve from simpler, unidirectional patterns to more complex, bidirectional ones through a vertical policy-learning feedback mechanism. This study generates two important policy implications that extend beyond the Chinese context: first, dynamic vertical interactions between multilevel governments indicate the need to develop more nuanced perspectives on the design of policy mixes; second, policy makers need to hold a more dynamic view of policy mixes by recognizing their temporal and coevolutionary nature through the policy learning process.

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Section: Shandong Province and The Swh Industrymentioning

confidence: 99%

The verticality of policy mixes for sustainability transitions: A case study of solar water heating in China

Huang

2019

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“…Despite well-understood technology options, deployment of CST systems for IPH has been slow to develop. There were 741 solar IPH (SIPH) projects worldwide as of 2018 with a capacity of 567 MWth (Weiss and Mauthner 2019). Approximately 330 of these plants spread across 34 countries are recorded in the Solar Heat of Industrial Processes database.…”

Section: Challenges In Industrial Process Heatingmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Role of Concentrating Solar-Thermal Technologies in a Decarbonized U.S. Grid

Augustine

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Mehos

2021

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NREL), envisions how, over the next few decades, solar could come to power 40% or more of U.S. electricity demand, dramatically accelerating the decarbonization of buildings, transportation, and industry.Through state-of-the-art modeling, the Solar Futures Study is the most comprehensive review to date of the potential role of solar in decarbonizing the U.S. electric grid and broader energy system. However, not all the detailed analysis that informed the Solar Futures Study could be included within its pages. This further analysis is collected in additional National Renewable Energy Laboratory reports, each dedicated to a different technology or socioeconomic concern.This report, The Role of Concentrating Solar-Thermal Technologies in a Decarbonized U.S. Grid, focuses on a particular technology area that could contribute to decarbonization.

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“…For the fixed control, an evacuated tube type of solar thermal collector is installed. For the flexible control, a flat plate collector is also considered, based on the report in [21]. In 2017, flat plate collectors were ranked second place in terms of their total installed capacity in operation according to collector type, but the report says that the share of flat plate collectors increased by 10% in 2017.…”

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Energy Performance Evaluation of a Desiccant Air Handling System to Maximize Solar Thermal Energy Use in a Hot and Humid Climate

2020

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A desiccant air handling unit is one of the major types of dehumidification handling systems and requires hot water or hot air to regenerate sorption materials. If solar thermal energy is used as the heat source for regeneration, in general, a backup electrical heater, backup boiler, or combined heat and power (CHP) is installed in order to maintain a stable hot water supply. In this study, effective control is proposed for a desiccant air handling system that uses solar thermal energy (flexible control), and its energy performance is compared to that of a traditional control (the fixed control) through a system simulation. The diurnal behavior shows that the system with a fixed control without a backup boiler cannot process the latent load properly (28 GJ of unprocessed latent load for July and August). On the other hand, the system with a flexible control without a backup boiler is able to process required latent heat load. Based on the fact that the fixed control needs a backup boiler to process the latent load, the system with a fixed control with a backup boiler is considered for the energy performance comparison. The simulation results show that the primary energy-based coefficient of performance (hereafter, COP) of the system with a flexible control without a backup boiler reaches 1.56. On the other hand, the primary energy-based COP of the system with a fixed control with a backup boiler reaches only 1.43. This proves that the flexible control contributes to the higher energy performance of the system and maximizes the use of solar thermal energy more than the fixed control.

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Solar Heat Worldwide 2005

Cited by 21 publications

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The verticality of policy mixes for sustainability transitions: A case study of solar water heating in China

The verticality of policy mixes for sustainability transitions: A case study of solar water heating in China

The Role of Concentrating Solar-Thermal Technologies in a Decarbonized U.S. Grid

Energy Performance Evaluation of a Desiccant Air Handling System to Maximize Solar Thermal Energy Use in a Hot and Humid Climate

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