Solar Water Collector Supply Temperature

Hi Meftah,

You can find information about the solar water heating model in SAM's Help system. Press the F1 key or click Help to open it.

Here are links to relevant topics in the online copy of the Help system:

General model description: samrepo.nrelcloud.org/help/solar_hot_water.html

Description of inputs on Solar Water Heating page: samrepo.nrelcloud.org/help/shw_system.html

Description of results: samrepo.nrelcloud.org/help/shw_results.html

You can also find additional information and links on the Solar Water Heating page of the SAM website: sam.nrel.gov/solar-water-heating.html

Best regards,
Paul.

Hi Meftah,

From the diagram in the "Solar Water Heating" topic of Help (the general model description link in my post above), it looks like the collector outlet temperature is shown as Tuseful, which is an intermediate variable that the model does not report in the results. I think the "m" in the equation you show is m dot useful in the diagram, which the model also does not report as an output.

Best regards,
Paul.