Considering the demands of clean and efficient heating with grid peak shaving and valley filling
a novel building heating system combined with photovoltaic/thermal
heat pump and heat storage using off-peak electricity (PV/T-HP-VEHSH) was proposed. The optimization design method for PV/T-HP-VEHSH was developed targeting optimal heating reliability
minimal carbon emissions and initial investment based on the pattern search algorithm. The operating performance of PV/T-HP-VEHSH was studied by TRNSYS software and the performance improvement was also investigated in comparison with the photovoltaic-air source heat pump heating system and the heating system without thermal storage by off-peak electricity. The results show that the PV/T-HP-VEHSH has the optimal comprehensive benefits at the ratio of flow rate of the thermal collection water pump to PV/T area of 13.8 (kg/h)/m
the ratio of volume of thermal collecting tank to PV/T area of 0.1 m/m
and the ratio of electric boiler capacity to volume of thermal storage tank of 1.2 kW/m. The average monthly COP of PV/T-HP-VEHSH varies from 2.8 to 3.2 and the comprehensive photoelectric and photothermal efficiencies of PV/T are higher than 56% during the heating season in cold zones. The operation cost of PV/T-HP-VEHSH is reduced by 3.3 ¥/m due to the thermal storage using off-peak electricity.
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