Heating Swimming Pool using RES

This paper aims at investigating the techno-economic feasibility of SWHS for swimming pools in touristic hotels and resorts. This study's main goal is to achieve the optimum sizes of SWHS components taking into account the environmental impacts and carried out with experimental measurements. The proposed solar heating system supplies an outdoor swimming pool of touristic resort; installed in El Gouna city, Egypt. The proposed system presents an active direct system without auxiliary heaters to evaluate the potential for using solar thermal collectors for heating swimming pools 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 with respect to system cost, system yield and economic values and then carried out experimentally. The volume water required to cover the pool load pattern is 136 liter per day. Four metrics are adopted to appraise/measure system economy: net present value, cost of energy, cost of water heated and payback period. The simulation results showed that the installed collector power of SWHS is 9,980kW and solar energy contribution to swimming pool is 25.