Method of collecting and storing solar heat

Patent · Wed Oct 16 04:00:00 EDT 1974

OSTI ID:7196191

Keyes, J H; Strickland, C I; Strickland, R G

A method of collecting and storing solar heat comprising the steps of: absorbing the heat on a collector surface wherein said collector surface is insulated from the ambient environment, passing air across the collector surface in a heat transfer process whereby the heat absorbed by the collector surface is transferred to the air, passing the hot air leaving the collector surface through a horizontal duct disposed at a lower elevation than the collector surface, passing the hot air emanating from said duct into an elevated storage chamber wherein said storage chamber has material with heat absorbent and heat retaining characteristics so that heat in the hot air is transferred from the hot air to said material and retained by said material, and passing air from said storage chamber through a second horizontal duct which is at a lower elevation than said collector surface and storage chamber, and directing the air emanating from said second duct across the collector surface to establish a circulating air current across said collector surface and through said storage chamber.

• Assignee: International Solarthermics Corp.
• Patent Number(s): US 3946721
• OSTI ID: 7196191
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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250600 -- Energy Storage-- Thermal
DESIGN
ENERGY STORAGE
FLAT PLATE COLLECTORS
HEAT STORAGE
HEATING SYSTEMS
SOLAR COLLECTORS
SOLAR HEATING SYSTEMS
STORAGE