Análise técnica e de custos de coletores solares para aquecimento da piscina de uso controlado do IEFES – UFC

Abstract

Use of solar energy for heating water is widely used in certain areas around the world include regions of Brazil, however, solar energy for pool heating is not common due to some reasons such as lack of knowledge about high implementation costs. This work proposes a solar heating system for a controlled use semi-Olympic swimming pool type of the Physical Education and Sports Institute of the Federal University of Ceará at Pici Campus. The aim of this work, besides technically analyzing the location of a possible installation, aims to quantify the implementation costs and the return of the investment, as well as to estimate the consumption by type of heating, renewable and non-renewable sources. This work proposes a properly sized heating system in order to avoid losses due to oversizing and under sizing, it is based on trustworthy sources such as Brazilian standards and information provided by expert agencies such as PROCEL and ABRAVA. The study demonstrated that implement costs of solar heating system for a semi- Olympic swimming pool are still quite high, one of the reasons may be explained because of the large volume of water that would need to be heated requiring more solar collectors, letting the system more expensive.