Nowadays there are several ways of supplying hot water for showers in residential buildings. One of them is the use of electric storage water heaters (boilers). This equipment raises the water temperature in a reservoir ...

This project is made about studies and techniques developed for the elaboration of an electronic shower that has as main objective the simultaneous use with other systems preheating, which aims to use water more efficiently, ...

This work introduces a thermal model and its numerical code to compute the household energy consumption related to domestic tank-style water heater. Several strategies are studied for energy saving by means of using ...

Water heating is a process that is present in various industries such as in homes, businesses and industries. This item can bring comfort to residential environments or be a necessity with great demand for other sectors. ...

The solar energy is a renewable source that has a great potential for conversion into thermal energy or for generation of electric power through photovoltaic panels in Brazil. Concerns about environmental impacts and the ...

In this study, the feasibility of installing low cost alternative solar heaters in the city of Cachoeira do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, was analyzed. Its main focus is on the heating of water for residential swimming pools, ...

The objective of this work was to develop a failure cause analysis, as well as to determine the reliability metrics of a water heater. Reliability, failure probability, failure rate, mean time between failures, and pdf ...

This paper presents the development of an electronic control circuit power for heaters in passing, used in showers. Proposes an electronic control circuit that applies whole cycles of the grid, rather than distorted ...