Active Solar Heating The Liquid Side

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Active Solar HeatingThe Liquid Side

• Prepared By Stephanie Kwan

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Introduction

• What is active solar heating?
• Use of mechanical systems to collect or transfer
  heat
• What are the benefits?
• Environmentally friendly
• Price protected from inflation
• Easily accessed by all communities

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Flat Plate Collectors

• Temperature below 80C
• Idea for residences and commercial buildings
• Consist of
• Black absorber plate
• Weatherproof case
• Glazed front
• Fluid travels through adjacent tubes and is heated

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Evacuated Tube Collectors

• Temperatures above 90C
• Used in industrial or commercial buildings
• NOT residences because of cost and temperature
• Consist of
• Tubes covered in absorber
• Reflective piece for greater sunlight
• Fluid travels through tubes and heats up

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Conclusion

• Many benefits environmentally friendly, cost
  efficient, and accessible.
• Used anywhere for residences, and commercial
  buildings
• Collect and absorb solar radiation through
  collector is
• Active Solar Heating!

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Work Cited

• http//www.eere.energy.gov/solar/sh_basics.html
• http//www.designelements.ca/ecolodgical/page.php?
  pageID43
• http//bathrooms.bobvila.com/Article/743.html
• http//www.newton.dep.anl.gov/newton/askasci/1995/
  environ/ENV145.HTM