TY - GEN
T1 - Design of an Automatic Hybrid Water Heating System
AU - Maine, Precious Kgomotso
AU - Longe, Omowunmi Mary
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.
PY - 2020/8
Y1 - 2020/8
N2 - Heating, Ventilating and Air-conditioning (HVAC) accounts for about 30-50% of energy consumption and expenditure in residential premises. Hence, the need to meet this essential demand affordably and in an environmentally friendly manner. Therefore, an automatic hybrid water heating system (AHWHS) is proposed in this work, to heat up water for bathroom and kitchen use, using power supply from either the utility grid or an installed solar panel depending on certain factors such as availability and cost of solar resource, availability and cost of utility grid supply, water demand by consumers, etc. The AHWHS was designed and constructed by charging a battery from either the utility grid or solar panel, which then powers the direct current coil element to heat up the water needed for use in the home. The AHWHS was found to reduce household energy expenditure by 68.33% and 71.59% during low and high demand seasons respectively.
AB - Heating, Ventilating and Air-conditioning (HVAC) accounts for about 30-50% of energy consumption and expenditure in residential premises. Hence, the need to meet this essential demand affordably and in an environmentally friendly manner. Therefore, an automatic hybrid water heating system (AHWHS) is proposed in this work, to heat up water for bathroom and kitchen use, using power supply from either the utility grid or an installed solar panel depending on certain factors such as availability and cost of solar resource, availability and cost of utility grid supply, water demand by consumers, etc. The AHWHS was designed and constructed by charging a battery from either the utility grid or solar panel, which then powers the direct current coil element to heat up the water needed for use in the home. The AHWHS was found to reduce household energy expenditure by 68.33% and 71.59% during low and high demand seasons respectively.
KW - Automatic Hybrid Water Heating System (AWHS)
KW - Battery
KW - Grid Electricity
KW - Solar Energy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85095123479&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/PowerAfrica49420.2020.9219821
DO - 10.1109/PowerAfrica49420.2020.9219821
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85095123479
T3 - 2020 IEEE PES/IAS PowerAfrica, PowerAfrica 2020
BT - 2020 IEEE PES/IAS PowerAfrica, PowerAfrica 2020
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 7th Annual IEEE PES/IAS PowerAfrica Conference, PowerAfrica 2020
Y2 - 25 August 2020 through 28 August 2020
ER -
