Low-cost light-weight thin material solar heating system
Abstract
Presented in this paper are innovative concepts to substantially reduce the cost of residential solar application. They were based on a research and development approach that establishes cost goals which if successfully met can insure high marketability. Included in this cost goal-oriented approach is the additional need to address aesthetics and performance. With such constraints established, designs were initialized, tested, and iterated towards appropriate solutions. These solutions are based on methods for reducing the material intensity of the products, improving the simplicity for ease of production, and reducing the cost of installation. Such a development approach has yielded past proof-of-concept designs in the solar collector and in the other components that constitute a total solar heating system.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (USA)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 5748234
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-36329; CONF-850388-11
ON: DE85012531
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76CH00016
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Solar buildings: realities for today - trends for tomorrow, Washington, DC, USA, 18 Mar 1985
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 14 SOLAR ENERGY; FLAT PLATE COLLECTORS; DESIGN; SOLAR WATER HEATERS; THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE EQUIPMENT; PAYBACK PERIOD; RETROFITTING; SOLAR HEATING SYSTEMS; APPLIANCES; ENERGY SYSTEMS; EQUIPMENT; HEATERS; HEATING SYSTEMS; SOLAR COLLECTORS; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; WATER HEATERS; 140907* - Solar Thermal Utilization- Water Heating; 141000 - Solar Collectors & Concentrators
Citation Formats
Wilhelm, W G. Low-cost light-weight thin material solar heating system. United States: N. p., 1985.
Web.
Wilhelm, W G. Low-cost light-weight thin material solar heating system. United States.
Wilhelm, W G. 1985.
"Low-cost light-weight thin material solar heating system". United States.
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abstractNote = {Presented in this paper are innovative concepts to substantially reduce the cost of residential solar application. They were based on a research and development approach that establishes cost goals which if successfully met can insure high marketability. Included in this cost goal-oriented approach is the additional need to address aesthetics and performance. With such constraints established, designs were initialized, tested, and iterated towards appropriate solutions. These solutions are based on methods for reducing the material intensity of the products, improving the simplicity for ease of production, and reducing the cost of installation. Such a development approach has yielded past proof-of-concept designs in the solar collector and in the other components that constitute a total solar heating system.},
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year = {Fri Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1985},
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