Anti-reverse siphon solar heating system

Patent · Tue May 28 00:00:00 EDT 1985

OSTI ID:6480905

Larkin, W J

A solar heater which is adapted for liquid heating and space heating, or both, utilizes a passive anti-reverse siphon concept in which fresh air or water is required to traverse upwardly along a passageway and then descend along a descending passageway insulated from the ascending passageway before it enters the solar heating chamber, with the result that the pressure heads generated in the ascending and descending passageways and the heating chamber offset one another such that forward, passive solar heating convection occurs, but in the evening when the heating chamber becomes cool, the normal reverse convection that occurs in passive units is stopped.

• Assignee: EDB-86-015693
• Patent Number(s): US 4519383
• OSTI ID: 6480905
• Resource Relation: Patent File Date: Filed date 30 Mar 1984; Other Information: PAT-APPL-595485
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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SPACE HEATING
THERMAL INSULATION
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APPLIANCES
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ENERGY TRANSFER
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