Techno-Economic Investigation of a Thermal Cure Center Excess Heat Recovery System for Producing Hot Water for a Hotel in Antsirabe Madagascar

Hery Tiana Rakotondramiarana; Mamy Harimisa Radanielina; Andriamaholisoa Yvan Ramananjatovo

doi:10.6000/1929-6002.2015.04.01.2

Techno-Economic Investigation of a Thermal Cure Center Excess Heat Recovery System for Producing Hot Water for a Hotel in Antsirabe Madagascar

Authors

Hery Tiana Rakotondramiarana Institute for the Management of Energy (IME), University of Antananarivo, Po Box 566, Antananarivo 101, Madagascar
Mamy Harimisa Radanielina Institute for the Management of Energy (IME), University of Antananarivo, Po Box 566, Antananarivo 101, Madagascar
Andriamaholisoa Yvan Ramananjatovo Institute for the Management of Energy (IME), University of Antananarivo, Po Box 566, Antananarivo 101, Madagascar

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6000/1929-6002.2015.04.01.2

Keywords:

Heat recovery system, geothermal energy, heat exchanger, energy savings, domestic hot water production.

Abstract

Energy saving is a significant feature to take in account in the choice of renewable energy technologies to use. This paper techno-economically investigates an excess heat recovery system that is proposed to be installed in a thermal cure center geothermal source for producing domestic hot water to be conveyed through piping to a nearby three star hotel located in Antsirabe Madagascar. For that purpose, the hotel hot water needs were determined by using an available online free code, called Solo, and the effectiveness-NTU method was used to size the plate heat exchanger to be used to recover the geothermal heat. The proposed hybrid geothermal solution performance was compared with that of hybrid solar energy water-heaters in terms of electricity consumption related to water temperature adjustment. It follows from comparison results that the proposed hybrid geothermal solution is more profitable and allows about 73.2 (%) of electric energy saving while it is 54.9 (%) for hybrid solar option. Besides, economic evaluation confirmed that the geothermal installation allows a shorter return on investment more favorably.

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2015-03-11

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Rakotondramiarana, H. T., Radanielina, M. H., & Ramananjatovo, A. Y. (2015). Techno-Economic Investigation of a Thermal Cure Center Excess Heat Recovery System for Producing Hot Water for a Hotel in Antsirabe Madagascar. Journal of Technology Innovations in Renewable Energy, 4(1), 10–20. https://doi.org/10.6000/1929-6002.2015.04.01.2

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