Solar Water Heaters

On October 04, 2007 in water heating

I still have not committed to a final design for my solar space heater. Continuing research leads to ever-changing ideas.

Today I found a document with a list of references as long as my arm, with some information that I haven’t found in other places. The article is available on ScienceDirect.com. Here is a direct link to the article.
“Integrated collector storage solar water heaters

M. Smyth^a, P.C. Eames^a and B. Norton^{b, ,
a}CST: Centre for Sustainable Technologies, School of the Built Environment, University of Ulster, Newtownabbey BT37 0QB, Northern Ireland, UK
^bDublin Institute of Technology, Aungier Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
Received 18 November 2004;  accepted 22 November 2004.  Available online 8 January 2005. ”

Just to wet your whistles, here is the Table of Contents listing:

1. History of the integrated collector storage solar water heater

2. Technologial development of the ICSSWH

2.1. Vessel design

2.1.1. Vessel size and shape

2.1.2. Configuration and interconnection of vessels

2.1.3. Inclination and orientation of vessel(s)

2.1.4. Vessel materials

2.1.5. Spectrally selective coatings

2.2. Glazing

2.2.1. Vessel enclosure

2.2.2. Glazing layers

2.2.3. Glazing coatings

2.2.4. Storage volume/aperture area ratio

2.3. Insulation

2.3.1. Opaque insulation

2.3.2. Transparent insulation

2.4. Reflectors

2.5. Evacuation between cover and vessel

2.6. Baffles in heat store

2.7. Inclusion of phase change materials

2.8. Icsswh performance characterisation

3. Conclusion

References

There is some EXCELLENT detailed information in here, with some of the most detailed illustrations related to “The Integrated Collector Storage Solar Water Heater (ICSSWH)” that I have come across.

I will go ahead and add the link to the Water Heating Links page as well.

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