Low temperature solar furnace and method

Patent · Tue Jul 13 00:00:00 EDT 1982

OSTI ID:6678541

Keller, R R

This disclosure generally relates to a technique and apparatus for solar heating which may be adapted for heating residential, commercial or industrial buildings, and in which the functions of solar energy collection, storage and heat-exchange are combined in the same passive structure generally consisting of a plurality of cylindrical tubes preferably fabricated of glass-fiber reinforced polyester resin which are filled with a stationary heat absorbing medium, such as water, with their surfaces preferably coated with a high absorptance material on to which solar rays are directed through a solar ''transmittor'' or window , and which surfaces serve as heat-exchange elements from which heat may be extracted in a variety of ways, including passage of air and thermal siphoning, and with the tubes enclosed within an appropriate insulated chamber. Cooperative action with domestic or similar hot water systems may also be achieved.

• Assignee: Keller Companies Inc
• Patent Number(s): US 4338917
• OSTI ID: 6678541
• Resource Relation: Patent File Date: Filed date 24 Aug 1981; Other Information: PAT-APPL-295377
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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14 SOLAR ENERGY
PASSIVE SOLAR HEATING SYSTEMS
DESIGN
SOLAR ABSORBERS
COATINGS
SOLAR COLLECTORS
MATERIALS
FIBERGLASS
HEAT SINKS
HEAT TRANSFER FLUIDS
ROOFS
SOLAR SPACE HEATING
THERMOSYPHON EFFECT
TUBES
WALLS
WATER
CONVECTION
ENERGY SYSTEMS
EQUIPMENT
FLUIDS
HEATING
HEATING SYSTEMS
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
SINKS
SOLAR EQUIPMENT
SOLAR HEATING
SOLAR HEATING SYSTEMS
SPACE HEATING
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