Hybrid Solar-Biomass with Energy Storage Comprehensive Analysis for District Heating Systems

This study analyses the effect of solar field size, biomass boiler and thermal storage capacity for a time dependant demand. The main results to obtain from the simulation will be solar share, biomass consumption and annual coverage with the proposed systems and a selection of the optimum size of these variables for the study case design. Results gathered show that, while there is an increment in solar energy obtained while selecting bigger solar panel areas, tank relations for these big systems show improvement in smaller sizes, visible in the increment of biomass energy used when bigger storage sizes to solar collector areas used.