Solar heating structure

Patent · Tue Feb 18 04:00:00 EST 1992

OSTI ID:5352928

Bottum, E W

This patent describes a totally passive type closed solar heating system for a building. It comprises a solar collector located exteriorly of the building to be heated at a substantial distance therefrom positioned lower than a heat exchanger located within the building, the solar collector being so positioned to receive substantially maximum radiation from the sun and tilted with respect to the sun so as to be substantially perpendicular to the sun's rays, a heat exchanger which includes a heat storing matrix located within the building to be heated, the heat exchanger being positioned at a level substantially higher than the solar collector, spaced apart parallely connected coils supported within the heat exchanger and extending from adjacent the top of the heat exchanger to adjacent the bottom thereof through which a heat transfer medium may pass by gravity, first conduit means extending in a generally upward direction between the top of the solar collector to the top of the coils within the heat exchanger, second conduit means extending in a generally upward direction between the bottom of the solar collector to the bottom of the coils within the heat exchanger, third conduit means connecting the first and the second conduit means, an accumulator connected to the third conduit means and thereby positioned between the solar collector and the heat exchanger for preventing a liquid refrigerant from passing directly from the solar collector to the heat exchanger, and means positioned adjacent the heat exchanger for selectively insulating the same.

• Assignee: NOV; EDB-92-101741; NOV-92-028138
• Patent Number(s): US 5088471; A
• Application Number: PPN: US 7-510886
• OSTI ID: 5352928
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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