Application of Solar Cooling System in a Campus Library in Hainan, China

This paper introduces the biggest solar cooling system in China. The solar cooling system is applied to a campus library in Hainan Island, which is the furthest south province in China. Some important factors, such as scheme selection, supplementary energy resource choice, chiller type comparison, solar collector selection, system configuration, operation and control strategy determination etc., are mainly discussed in this paper. The project was finished in 2011 summer and an on-line monitoring system was installed to know how the system operates. Some primary technical and economic analysis is made and some suggestions about how to promote solar cooling system in China are also put forward in this paper.