Solar heating and cooling diode module

Patent · Tue Oct 07 04:00:00 EDT 1986

OSTI ID:5153689

Maloney, T J

A high efficiency solar heating system is described which consists of: hollow modular units each for receiving a liquid thermal storage mass, the units being arranged in stacked relation in an exterior frame of a building. Each of the units include port means for filling the unit with the mass, a collector region and a storage region. Each region has inner and outer walls, the outer wall of the collector region being oriented for exposure to sunlight for heating the thermal storage mass; means for establishing a bi-laminar flow pattern of the liquid thermal storage mass between the storage and collector regions by thermosiphoning for simultaneous liquid flow of the thermal storage mass between the collector and storage regions; the collector region being disposed substantially below and in parallel relation to the storage region in the modular unit; the inner wall of the collector region of each successive modular unit in the stacked relation extending over the outer wall of the storage region of the next lower modular unit in the stacked relation for reducing heat loss from the system.

• Assignee: One Design, Inc., Winchester, VA
• Patent Number(s): US 4615381
• OSTI ID: 5153689
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

14 SOLAR ENERGY
140901* -- Solar Thermal Utilization-- Space Heating & Cooling
BUILDINGS
DESIGN
EFFICIENCY
ENERGY STORAGE
ENERGY SYSTEMS
EQUIPMENT
FLUID FLOW
HEAT STORAGE
HEATING
HEATING SYSTEMS
LAMINAR FLOW
MODULAR STRUCTURES
SOLAR COLLECTORS
SOLAR COOLING SYSTEMS
SOLAR EQUIPMENT
SOLAR HEATING
SOLAR HEATING SYSTEMS
SOLAR SPACE HEATING
SPACE HEATING
STORAGE
THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE EQUIPMENT
THERMOSYPHONS