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Automation and control of solar air conditioning systems

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1531450
A solar powered air conditioning system includes an absorption machine coupled to three primary loops. A heat loop provides energy to the absorption machine. A cooling tower loop exhausts heat from the absorption machine. A chilled water loop is used to draw heat from a room or building. The heat loop provides energy from a boiler and/or from a number of solar collectors. In one mode of operation, the solar collectors circulate through a storage tank. The flow through the solar collectors is regulated to maximize energy collection.
Research Organization:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC36-83CH10093
Assignee:
University of Puerto Rico (San Juan, PR)
Patent Number(s):
6,536,677
Application Number:
09/877,814
OSTI ID:
1531450
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (1)

Transient Considerations of Flat-Plate Solar Collectors journal April 1974