Periodic Reporting for period 2 - SunHorizon (Sun coupled innovative Heat pumps)
Período documentado: 2020-04-01 hasta 2021-09-30
Cross-cutting activities among the demo are devoted to solve technical, organizational, legal, regulatory and market-related issues and to evaluate solutions from the economic and business points of view.
For each demo, an energy audit has been performed to evaluate the baseline conditions. Several on-site visits to the buildings were performed by the partners to understand the best integration of SunHorizon system within the existing system. Preliminary conceptual design of the TPs relying on dynamic TRNSYS simulation of the new heating system models were defined. Firstly, dynamic simulations were carried out in reference to the building envelope models that provides H&C energy requirements under weather profiles, and usage profiles. Such baseline energy demand configuration was used to develop and size the new H/C/DHW system and to evaluate the energy consumption. In addition to activities performed in demo sites, transversal activities on the development of the cloud monitoring platform and the control strategies to be applied in the demos have been performed. The prediction models for the demand characterization as well as the pro-active maintenance strategies have been developed. Moreover, a preliminary version of the SunHorizon app for the Thermal comfort evaluation is now ready. A survey have been developed to evaluate the market and social acceptance of SunHorizon technologies among stakeholders’ as well as a macro-market analysis including PESTLE and conceptual business models definition.