HYBRID-BIOVGE

The Hybrid - BioVGE project is proposed with the primary objective to develop, design and demonstrate a highly integrated solar/biomass hybrid air conditioning system for space cooling and heating of residential and commercial buildings that is affordable, operating with improved efficiency and with a strong market potential. The developed system will contribute to the improvement of existing technologies from several aspects, including cheaper collector design; targeted thermal energy storage system; compactness; integrated controller for automated and efficient operation; improved reliability and performance; improved monitoring of energy usage; improved scalability. The proposed system will be driven by heat, using two renewable energy resources: solar thermal and biomass. Only a small amount of electricity will be needed for the circulation pumps and the control system (less than 5% of the total needs), thus it is expected that 95% of the building thermal load will be satisfied by..