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Experiences with solar cooling systems in Kuwait

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  • Al-Homoud, A.A.
  • Suri, R.K.
  • Al-Roumi, Raed
  • Maheshwari, G.P.

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Solar space cooling is important in the countries of the Arabian Peninsula where nearly half of the total produced electricity is used for air conditioning of residential commercial and public buildings. In Kuwait, large proportion of funds were allocated for research in solar cooling applications. By the year 1985, several small and medium capacity demonstration projects were installed and tested and more were anticipated for the future. These systems used flat plate collectors and small vapor absorption refrigeration (VAR) system of 5 to 10 tons cooling capacity (TR). The first large installation in Kuwait was carried out in the early eighties for a school building. Immediately thereafter, an equally important installation comprising of 300 m2 of flat plate collector area and three 10 TR VAR chillers, was completed in 1983 for an office building of the Ministry of Defense (MOD). These two well instrumented installations were tested for more than one summer season. The system at MOD is the most successful installation and it has been functioning excellently, to-date. Performance results of the system taken during the summer of 1995 have been presented in this paper.

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  • Al-Homoud, A.A. & Suri, R.K. & Al-Roumi, Raed & Maheshwari, G.P., 1996. "Experiences with solar cooling systems in Kuwait," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 9(1), pages 664-669.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:renene:v:9:y:1996:i:1:p:664-669
    DOI: 10.1016/0960-1481(96)88374-1
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    1. Fong, K.F. & Lee, C.K., 2014. "Performance advancement of solar air-conditioning through integrated system design for building," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 73(C), pages 987-996.
    2. Hanif, M. & Mahlia, T.M.I. & Zare, A. & Saksahdan, T.J. & Metselaar, H.S.C., 2014. "Potential energy savings by radiative cooling system for a building in tropical climate," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 32(C), pages 642-650.
    3. Patlitzianas, Konstantinos D. & Doukas, Haris & Askounis, Dimitris Th., 2007. "An assessment of the sustainable energy investments in the framework of the EU–GCC cooperation," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 32(10), pages 1689-1704.
    4. Al-Alili, A. & Islam, M.D. & Kubo, I. & Hwang, Y. & Radermacher, R., 2012. "Modeling of a solar powered absorption cycle for Abu Dhabi," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 93(C), pages 160-167.
    5. Patlitzianas, Konstantinos D. & Doukas, Haris & Psarras, John, 2006. "Enhancing renewable energy in the Arab States of the Gulf: Constraints & efforts," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 34(18), pages 3719-3726, December.
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    7. Ramadas Narayanan & Abeer Abdullah Al Anazi & Roberto Pippia & Mohammad G. Rasul, 2022. "Solar Desiccant Cooling System for a Commercial Building in Kuwait’s Climatic Condition," Energies, MDPI, vol. 15(11), pages 1-13, June.

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