Enabling Economic and Environmental Sustainability Assessment of Solar Thermal Systems via Temporally and Spatially Explicit Life Cycle Analysis

通过时空显式生命周期分析实现太阳能热系统的经济和环境可持续性评估

• 批准号: 1034348
• 负责人: Ming Qu
• 金额: $ 29.94万
• 依托单位: Purdue University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-07-15 至 2015-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1034348&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Enabling; Economic; Environmental; Sustainability; Assessment

Solar cooling and heating for buildings are promising alternative energy approaches. However, the lack of reliable tools to evaluate the technical, economic, and especially the environmental benefits of these technologies presents one of the critical barriers to their widespread deployment. The overarching goal of this project is to close this knowledge gap by developing an evaluation platform that accurately quantifies the life cycle cost, energy payback, and carbon footprint of solar thermal systems. Four research tasks will be conducted in the project: 1) testing and optimizing performance of an integrated solar heating and cooling system installed on the Purdue campus; 2) predicting and evaluating system performance for 11 benchmark building types in 16 distinct climate zones based on simulation; 3) developing life cycle inventory database that integrates temporal and spatial perspectives for systems simulated; 4) developing a life cycle economic and environmental sustainability assessment platform, which integrates experimental, modeling, and database development efforts. This project promises to deliver a novel, easy-to-use, web-based decision support tool that facilitates the wide deployment of solar building technologies and the move toward green buildings. The integrated and modularized solar cooling/heating systems developed in the project will be a new generation with plug-play system components and optimal control strategies. The project will compare the economic and environmental performance of solar heating and cooling technologies applied to standardized benchmark buildings in 16 distinct climate zones in the U.S. focusing on life cycle cost, energy savings, and greenhouse gas emission reduction. The project will apply a temporally and spatially explicit life cycle assessment approach to evaluate the economic and environmental sustainability of solar cooling and heating systems. Through cyber-infrastructure, distance learning, and student internships, the project will implement a novel approach to engage students, especially women students, in sustainability engineering and green building research. The findings resulting from the research may be widely used in the solar technology industry.Bruce K. Hamilton6/16/10

太阳能制冷和供暖是一种很有前途的替代能源。 然而，缺乏可靠的工具来评估这些技术的技术、经济、特别是环境效益，这是广泛应用这些技术的关键障碍之一。该项目的总体目标是通过开发一个评估平台来缩小这一知识差距，该平台可以准确量化太阳能热系统的生命周期成本，能源回报和碳足迹。该项目将进行四项研究任务：1）测试和优化普渡大学校园安装的集成太阳能加热和冷却系统的性能; 2）基于模拟预测和评估16个不同气候区的11种基准建筑类型的系统性能; 3）开发集成模拟系统的时间和空间视角的生命周期库存数据库;（4）开发一个集实验、建模和数据库开发于一体的生命周期经济和环境可持续性评估平台。 该项目承诺提供一个新颖的，易于使用的，基于网络的决策支持工具，促进太阳能建筑技术的广泛部署和走向绿色建筑。 该项目开发的集成和模块化太阳能制冷/制热系统将是具有即插即用系统组件和最佳控制策略的新一代系统。 该项目将比较太阳能加热和冷却技术应用于美国16个不同气候区的标准化基准建筑的经济和环境性能，重点关注生命周期成本，节能和温室气体减排。 该项目将采用时间和空间明确的生命周期评估方法，以评估太阳能制冷和供暖系统的经济和环境可持续性。 通过网络基础设施、远程学习和学生实习，该项目将采用一种新的方法，让学生，特别是女学生参与可持续性工程和绿色建筑研究。 这项研究的结果可能会广泛应用于太阳能技术行业。汉密尔顿6/16/10