A Reliability Test Installation for Water Heating Solar Systems: Requirements and Design According to the European Norm 12976

This chapter analyzes the requirements that a test installation design must comply with in order to carry out the test procedures of prefabricated systems mentioned in a previous chapter and based on the norm EN 12976. In other words, the authors consider for the test installation design, firstly, the requirements that the hydraulic circuit of such an installation must meet, followed by the specifications required by the custom-built systems; all of this has the aim of certifying that the characteristics of the prefabricated system are the applicable ones. Subsequently, the chapter then directly proceeds to design a test installation, which is to be later compared to a real installation.