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Energy demand and carbon emission analyses of a solar-driven domestic regional environment mobile robot as household auxiliary heating and cooling method

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  • Xi, Yan-Ao-Ming
  • Li, Yun-Ze
  • Chen, Ya-Hui
  • Jiang, Hai-Hao
  • Huang, Zhao-Bin

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Under the trend of energy saving and carbon reduction, reducing household energy consumption, which is an important part of social energy consumption, has become a hot topic. In order to solve the problem of mismatch between supply and demand of household environment control systems as well as to better meet the individual needs of users, we innovatively designed a solar-driven domestic regional environment mobile robot as auxiliary heating and cooling method. In this paper, a simplified thermal network analysis of the thermal conditions of a dwelling is utilized to calculate the energy saving and carbon reduction potential on summer and winter reference days in Beijing and Guangzhou, China. The simulation results show that the system has good energy saving potential and carbon reduction effect. In particular, the single-day energy saving potential of the system on winter days in Beijing reaches to 583.6 kWh compared to the traditional method. Under the power supply mode, the single-day carbon reduction can reach 462 kg CO2 on winter days in Guangzhou, and it can reach 333.2 kg CO2 on summer days in Beijing. We also discuss the effect of regional space size and clothing thermal resistance. As the local space size and the clothing thermal resistance increases, the energy saving potential and carbon reduction benefits of the system decrease, but the overall impact is small. The proposed mobile robot following in the vicinity of home inhabitants to help maintain their thermal comfort, can improve the efficiency of dwellings heating and cooling systems and utilize the limited solar energy resources in family area.

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  • Xi, Yan-Ao-Ming & Li, Yun-Ze & Chen, Ya-Hui & Jiang, Hai-Hao & Huang, Zhao-Bin, 2024. "Energy demand and carbon emission analyses of a solar-driven domestic regional environment mobile robot as household auxiliary heating and cooling method," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 371(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:appene:v:371:y:2024:i:c:s0306261924011267
    DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2024.123743
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