Passive integral solar heat collector system

Patent · Tue Apr 30 00:00:00 EDT 1985

OSTI ID:5281543

Feldman, Jr, K T

The present invention relates to an improved apparatus for collecting, absorbing, transferring, and storing solar heat energy, economically and passively, without pumps or electric power. The apparatus comprises a solar collector with a flat finned heat pipe absorber and an attached integral insulated storage tank with a double wall heat exchanger. The absorber, made of one or more slightly tilted gravity assisted heat pipes with flat absorber fins, absorbs and transfers solar heat by evaporation, vapor transport, and condensation to the slightly elevated heat storage tank. The one or more heat pipes turn on when the sun is shining and turn off automatically when the sun is not shining.

• Assignee: EDB-85-154905
• Patent Number(s): US 4513732
• OSTI ID: 5281543
• Resource Relation: Patent File Date: Filed date 19 Oct 1983; Other Information: PAT-APPL-543243
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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PASSIVE SOLAR HEATING SYSTEMS
DESIGN
FLAT PLATE COLLECTORS
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HEAT PIPES
HEAT TRANSFER
SOLAR ABSORBERS
THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE EQUIPMENT
ENERGY SYSTEMS
ENERGY TRANSFER
EQUIPMENT
HEATING SYSTEMS
SOLAR COLLECTORS
SOLAR EQUIPMENT
SOLAR HEATING SYSTEMS
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