Solar Energy Applications to Dwellings: Proceedings of the EC Contractors' Meeting held in Meersburg (F.R.G.), 14-16 June 1982

by Willeke Palz (Editor), C. den Ouden (Editor)

Overview

The objectives of the Modelling Sub-Group are to unify European research in the field of computer models, to provide the best simplified models in the Passive Solar Working Group's extensive European Passive Solar Handbook and to ensure that these simple models are easy to use for design purposes. It has defined the needs of the research program for a large model and has chosen the Scottish program ESP as a large simulation model to be used as a reference for the analysis of the simplified ones. Each participant has commissioned the chosen model on his own computer and run a very simple exercise, just to verify that the program works similarily on the different machines. The analysis of the large model is being brought on its different sections, such as: input, output, heat transfer, passive solar systems, etc. The group will run ESP using the same passive solar bulding data as inputted to simplified models to assess the sensitivity of the latter ones. It will report on the work needed for the next 4 year CEC research program.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789400979260
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	10/13/2011
Series:	Solar Energy R&D in the Ec Series A: , #2
Edition description:	1983
Pages:	430
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

Section I — Overviews.- Overview of papers presenting contract research within concerted actions.- Solar Energy assessment study (Project A).- Second European passive solar competition 1982.- Co-ordinating contract for the European passive solar working group and modelling sub-group.- European passive solar modelling sub-group.- European modelling group for space heating and domestic hot water systems.- Simplified methods for the sizing of solar thermal plants.- The first two years of operation of the solar pilot test facilities.- Performance monitoring of solar heating systems in dwellings: Phase 3.- Solar collector testing (The co-ordinators’ report on a concerted action).- Concerted action European solar storage testing group.- Digital control system for a passive solar house space heating.- Section 2 — Passive Solar Components.- Summary on passive solar components.- A. Subsection: walls, façades, etc..- Hollow wall: architectonic structural element alternative to trombe wall.- Research in and development of a passive solar energy façade in the “council housing” sector.- High performance passive solar heating system with heat pipe energy transfer and latent heat storage modules.- Transparent insulation for thermal storage walls.- A ventilated trombe wall unit.- Study to design and manufacture an insulating translucent glass panel made with evacuated pyrex tubes.- Research and development of a passive solar façade industrial component.- B. Subsection: Shutters, window systems, etc..- Temporary thermal insulation in the passive solar utilization.- Development of an independent shutter system for passive temperature control in buildings.- Development of a thermal store and a solar blind for use in conservatories and glazed roof spaces.- Development and testing of architectural components for passive solar energy use in transparent building façades.- Development of a range of double windows including a solar control blind and internal shutters for use with passive solar houses.- Use in passive solar architecture of solar dousers with a seasonal effect.- C. Subsection: Control devices, etc..- Development of an automatic temperature sensitive air control device for use with passive solar gain collectors.- Self-acting power cylinders for controls in passive solar buildings.- Unit for local storage of solar gain.- Design and development of an easy made convective type solar air collector.- Solar wall with tiles covered by a layer of spectral selective enamel.- System for warming the new air using the solar energy in an individual house.- Section 3 — High Performance Collectors.- Summary on high performance collectors.- Development of improved solar heat-energy absorber surfaces.- Cobalt oxide spectral selective coatings.- Study and construction of a solar focusing collector using a deformable mirror, in the temperature range 100–200 °C.- High performance collector for small power systems.- Section 4 — Solar Cooling Machines.- Summary on solar cooling systems.- Construction and acquisition of process data relative to a prototype of a solar absorption resorption refrigerator.- Realisation and tests of a solar powered ice maker using the AC 35 — CH3OH intermittent cycle.- Self operating cooling system using solar energy — small power experimental plant.- Development of an autonomous free piston refrigerating unit driven by Rankine cycle.- Section 5 — Heat Storage.- Summary on heat storage.- A. Subsection: Stores using latent heat, heat of adsorption, etc..- The development and optimisation of cost effective thermal energy storage systems for solar space heating by means of a microprocessor controlled test facility.- The development of a solar energy installation for space heating and cooling based on hygroscopic materials.- Energy storage in chemical reaction — study of a chemical heat pump.- Salt gradient solar pond for solar heat collection and long term storage.- B. Subsection: Miscellaneous.- Evaluation of thermal storage for solar heating systems.- Physical model for the study of mass and energy transfers in the non-saturated layer of soil located above a solar energy storage.- C. Subsection: Long-term heat storage.- Long-term solar heat storage through underground water tanks for the heating of housing.- The heliogeothermal doublet: a real scale test facility.- Field test to investigate the performance of an undeep prototype seasonal heat storage system with a heat capacity for 100 solar houses using the soil as the storage medium.- Seasonal heat storage in underground warm water stores (Construction and testing of a 500 m3 store).