摘要:
This invention provides a composite article having discrete microstructures partially encapsulated within a layer. A method of making the same is also provided. The article of the present invention is useful for visible radiation absorbing devices, such as, for example, selective solar absorbers, flat plate solar collectors, solar absorption panels, and solar cells.
摘要:
A fluid-heating solar collector comprises a solar energy absorber with heat conducting and radiation absorbing material arranged to provide a plurality of angularly bent conduits extending therethrough thus to optimize the heat absorption surface at differing sun angles and also to substantially increase the area for convective heat transfer to passing air or other fluid.
摘要:
A light controlling heat collecting solar roof, the roof being formed of sheeting material of generally corrugated form, each corrugation having a generally planar upper surface with a generally planar lower surface at the bottom of the trough, the side walls connecting the upper and lower surfaces being transparent or translucent and one of these being generally vertical and facing the equator. Heat collecting tubes may be mounted on one or both of the generally planar surfaces.
摘要:
A solar energy system employing solar panels used to heat water. The system includes a boiler with the vent for the boiler being located beneath the solar panels to distribute exhaust heat thereto. A structure is defined to allow venting of the enclosed area behind the panels. The panels are constructed with multiple sheets of plastic as glazing which are retained by means of interlocking elements and adhesive.
摘要:
A compact, self-contained solar heat collector is disclosed which is particularly suited for addition to new or existing structures in the form of window shutters, exterior siding, awnings, columnar elements and the like. The exterior glazing (32) of the collector includes undulating transverse pane segments (36, 38, 118, 156), the angle of which is chosen to optimize insolation during winter months. Beneath the preferably sharp peaks and valleys of such undulations is positioned a heat absorption, storage and exchange assembly (42-64) which defines an enclosed heat transfer cavity (42, 122, 134, 142) through which a heat transfer fluid such as air is directed.
摘要:
A solar energy heating panel is provided for mounting in a building wall to effect heating of the air in an interior building space. A plurality of the heating panels are mounted in parallel relationship in a supporting structure for angular rotation about horizontal pivot axes to selected position. Each of the heating panels includes a heat-transfer controlling panel and a cellular unit mounted on one surface of the controlling panel, the opposite surface of the controlling panel being reflective of solar radiation. The cellular units are formed with mutually intersecting, longitudinally and transversely extending walls disposed in upstanding relationship to the controlling panel surface and which define a plurality of individual cells that are open at an end remote to the controlling panel surface. The longitudinally extending walls are disposed parallel to the axes of rotation and have a plurality of apertures formed therein to permit airflow transversely through each cell. All wall surfaces of each cell, except one longitudinal wall surface, are coated with a material to enhance absorption of solar radiation, the longitudinally and transversely extending walls being formed from a metal having a relatively high coefficient of thermal conductivity.
摘要:
The object of the invention is a plane solar energy collector provided with multicellular transparent cover compound of adjoining juxtaposed identical cells wherein each cell is inscribed or formed inside a polygonal base frame and comprises a lenticonic elements i.e. having a substantially plane face, defined by a side of the said polygon, and by a bow-shaped curve, crossingthe two ends of the said side and, on the other hand, a convex transparent surface which connects the other sides of the base frame to the said curve.
摘要:
A solar heat collector panel having an absorber plate with fins as part thereof to reduce convection air currents and heat loss from the panel. A screen disposed above a collector plate also reduces the undesired convection air currents. A fluid carrying pipe is attached to the collector plate by snapping into channels therein after a sealer material has been placed in the channel.
摘要:
An apparatus for collecting radiant solar energy to provide solar heating which may be used singly or in multiples as modular units. The apparatus is constructed as a self-contained unit having an insulated base, an energy receiving surface positioned adjacent the insulated base, and a heat exchange fluid conduit for circulating a heat exchange fluid in contact with the energy receiving surface. Other conduits are provided to introduce a heat exchange fluid and to receive or collect the fluid after it has been in contact with the energy receiving surface. The top or cover of the collector module is positioned in spaced relationship adjacent the energy receiving surface. The cover is transparent to solar energy and is provided with a plurality of spaced raised structures having surfaces angularly disposed to transmit radiant solar energy to the energy receiving surface. Side walls provide a self-contained unit and permit mounting of the unit on a surface.
摘要:
A fixed, linear, ground-based primary reflector having an extended curved sawtooth-contoured surface covered with a metalized polymeric reflecting material, reflects solar energy to a movably supported collector that is kept at the concentrated line focus of the reflector primary. The primary reflector may be constructed by a process utilizing well-known freeway paving machinery.