Heating, cooling and ventilation with the solar-assisted heat pump based on the air solar collector

A new concept for solar-assisted heat pumps based on an air solar collector is discussed in this paper. The main objectives of the system have been set on a partial covering of the cooling demand of a building during summer season and simultaneous charging of the thermal storage for domestic hot water usage. Beside this, the proposed system fully covers the ventilation need of the building. The current paper presents the performance results of proposed concept for different weather conditions. The results demonstrate that such system is competitive with the existed solar-assisted heat pumps in terms of technical simplicity to cover broad range of tasks simultaneously.