UNIVERSIDAD DEL NORTE

RENEWABLE ENERGIES COURSE

2021-20 PERIOD
SOLAR ENERGY THERMAL APPLICATION ASSIGNMENT
Due Date: June 26th, 2021

Workgroup members:

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Your engineering team has been hired to determine the potential to implement a low temperature
solar energy application for a Building Complex. The idea is to use the tower number 4 of the
compound to install the system. The complex layout is shown on the following figure (Dimensions
are in meters and the 4 buildings have the same footprint):

Each building has 6 levels that have an individual height of 3.5m each. However, the project has a
particular feature. It is built on a hill, which creates height differences among the towers. The
following table shows the total height measured from the base of the hill to each tower roof.

Tower h(m)
1 27
2 31.5
3 32
4 20
All the buildings are skewed 5 degrees from the East-West cardinal axis and are going to be located
on:

Couple City Country

1 Valledupar Colombia
2 Beaumont United States
3 Seville Spain
4 Eskisehir Turkey
5 San Jose Costa Rica
6 Genoa Italy
7 Tepic Mexico
8 Rabat Morocco
9 Davao The Philippines
10 Tel Aviv Israel

For the potential determination present at least 3 different orientation configurations, Also, which
type of thermal system is most suited for the project conditions?