@Article{hmt.18.9,
AUTHOR = {Marwa M. Ibrahim, Amal El Berry, Karim Ashour},
TITLE = {EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL STUDY OF SMART ENERGY  MANAGEMENT SOLAR WATER HEATING SYSTEM FOR OUTDOOR  SWIMMING POOL APPLICATION IN EGYPT},
JOURNAL = {Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer},
VOLUME = {18},
YEAR = {2022},
NUMBER = {1},
PAGES = {1--11},
URL = {http://www.techscience.com/fhmt/v18n1/52440},
ISSN = {2151-8629},
ABSTRACT = {Conventional sources of energy are rapidly decreasing more and more. Hence, Renewable energy is presently attracting significant. Therefore, this 
paper aims at investigating the techno-economic feasibility of SWHS for swimming pools in tourist hotels and resorts. The proposed system 
presents an active direct system without auxiliary heaters to evaluate the potential for using solar thermal collectors for heating swimming pools 
of tourist resort; installed in El Gouna city, Egypt, and to size solar collector using TSOL simulation software package to meet the demand of hot 
water, to analyze the impact of collector design-parameters concerning system cost, system yield and economic values and then carried out 
experimentally. The simulation results showed that the installed collector power of SWHS is 9,980kW and solar energy contribution to the 
swimming pool is 25.831MWh. The system efficiency is 75.5% and the annual solar yield obtained is 2153kWh/year. For the economic side, NPV 
and COE are 5878.37$, 0.0045$/kWh respectively. Plus, the payback period of this proposed system is 18 months. When taking into account the 
cost of CO2 emissions, the proposed system avoided 6,720kg annually resulting in saving 6102$. The experimental results illustrated that system 
sizing is 28 of solar absorber collector and 1hp pool pump. System cost and COE of the system are 8251.37$, 0.0095$/kWh respectively. The cost 
of one liter of water heated is 0.387$ and the payback period is 14 months. For a multitude of reasons, solar water heating for hotels and resorts is 
an ideal choice.},
DOI = {10.5098/hmt.18.9}
}