Residential air conditioning and heating by means of enhanced solar collectors coupled to an adsorption system

This work explores the possibility to perform heating and air-conditioning of state of the art building located near Paris in France. For air-conditioning, enhanced compound parabolic solar collectors are used as a heat source of an adsorption system (methanol/activated carbon), while during winter direct coupling with the building is performed.A model describing the adsorption unit, the solar collectors and the house was used to simulate the performances of such an installation.For air-conditioning, thermal comfort is achieved as indoor temperature is kept below 25 °C during five consecutive hot days (heat wave effect), contrarily to the case for which only free-cooling during nighttime is used. For heating, the indoor temperature remains below the comfort temperature value by 2 K. Nevertheless, the auxiliary heating need will remain limited so that savings on electricity or fossil fuel consumption will be possible.