In June 2007, ENAMEC completed the first demonstration project for local construction and installation of solar thermal collectors
in the Republic of Azerbaijan.
The testing site is located at the Mehdiabad region in the north of Baku. The four collectors are installed at the south wall of a typical one-family villa.
Due to the sunny climate in Azerbaijan, the average collected heat is sufficient to produce a daily reserve of 200 liters of hot water with a temperature over 70 degree Celsius.
This is potentially enough to cover effectively the consumption of all typical household applications with up to half a ton
of warm and hot water daily. Such a cost efficient usage of free energy from the sun is an attractive alternative to
the increasingly expensive conventional sources of heating energy.
Owners of local buildings who are interested in the solar thermal technology
are kindly invited to visit the project (contact: vaqif.ahmadov@enamec.com).
The design of the collectors and the optimization of the full integrated water heating system have been contributed from the German engineering branch of ENAMEC,
which is specialized to optimization of systems and related mathematical-technical solutions. The ENAMEC institute is dedicated to provide its
environmental and technical solutions not only in Europe, but also within in the Caspian region, the Middle East and Arabic Countries.
From the very beginning, ENAMEC had the goal to prove that, it is possible to construct efficient collectors, mainly using materials from local markets.
In this way, the project serves as a prototype, opening the way towards a semi-industrial manufacturing of solar thermal collectors in Azerbaijan.
Measurements and testing at this and other project sites will be continued at least until 2009.
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