Solar Heater Technologies Selection Using Multi-criteria Analysis

Regarding sun's potential in Middle East and North Africa zone and particularly in Morocco, we focus our work on the development of the knowledge and information concerning the solar heaters for domestic applications, in order to help the industrial and the consumer to select an adaptive technology. As a result, a Moroccan mapping of solar water heating systems is presented in this work. This mapping concerns two technologies commonly used: the FPC (flat plate collectors) and the ETC (evacuated tubes ones). It is based on three criteria: firstly, the efficiency of the STC (solar thermal collectors); secondly, the economic aspect and at last, the reliability requirements. Based on these information, the multi-criteria outranking methodology PROMETHEE (preference ranking organization method for the enrichment evaluations) allows us to define an adequate solar heater technology linked with the climatic zoning of Morocco.