Solar Energy Applications To Dwellings: Proceedings Of The Ec Contractors’ Meeting Held In Meersburg (f.r.g.), 14–16 June 1982 (solar Energy R&d In The Ec Series A:)

The objectives of the Modelling Sub-Group are to unify European research in the field of computer models, to provide the best simplified models in the Passive Solar Working Group's extensive European Passive Solar Handbook and to ensure that these simple models are easy to use for design purposes. It has defined the needs of the research program for a large model and has chosen the Scottish program ESP as a large simulation model to be used as a reference for the analysis of the simplified ones. Each participant has commissioned the chosen model on his own computer and run a very simple exercise, just to verify that the program works similarily on the different machines. The analysis of the large model is being brought on its different sections, such as : input, output, heat transfer, passive solar systems, etc. The group will run ESP using the same passive solar bulding data as inputted to simplified models to assess the sensitivity of the latter ones. It will report on the work needed for the next 4 year CEC research program. Front Matter....Pages i-x Introduction....Pages 1-2 Front Matter....Pages 3-3 Overview of Papers Presenting Contract Research within Concerted Actions....Pages 4-7 Solar Energy Assessment Study (Project A)....Pages 8-18 Second European Passive Solar Competition 1982....Pages 19-24 Co-Ordinating Contract for the European Passive Solar Working Group and Modelling Sub-Group....Pages 25-33 European Passive Solar Modelling Sub-Group....Pages 34-40 European Modelling Group for Space Heating and Domestic Hot Water Systems....Pages 41-46 Simplified Methods for the Sizing of Solar Thermal Plants....Pages 47-58 The First Two Years of Operation of the Solar Pilot Test Facilities....Pages 59-66 Performance Monitoring of Solar Heating Systems in Dwellings: Phase 3....Pages 67-75 Solar Collector Testing....Pages 76-86 Concerted Action European Solar Storage Testing Group....Pages 87-93 Digital Control System for a Passive Solar House Space Heating....Pages 94-100 Front Matter....Pages 101-101 Summary on Passive Solar Components....Pages 102-105 Hollow Wall: Architectonic Structural Element Alternative to Trombe Wall....Pages 106-109 Research in and development of a passive solar energy facade in the “council housing” sector....Pages 110-116 High Performance Passive Solar Heating System with Heat Pipe Energy Transfer and Latent Heat Storage Modules....Pages 117-126 Transparent Insulation for Thermal Storage Walls....Pages 127-133 A Ventilated Trombe Wall Unit....Pages 134-141 Study to Design and Manufacture an Insulating Translucent Glass Panel Made with Evacuated Pyrex Tubes....Pages 142-145 Front Matter....Pages 101-101 Research and Development of a Passive Solar Facade Industrial Component....Pages 146-160 Temporary Thermal Insulation in the Passive Solar Utilisation....Pages 161-166 Development of an Independent Shutter System for Passive Temperature Control in Buildings....Pages 167-174 Development of a Thermal Store and a Solar Blind for Use in Conservatories and Glazed Roof Spaces....Pages 175-181 Development and Testing of Architectural Components for Passive Solar Energy Use in Transparent Building Facades....Pages 182-190 Development of a Range of Double Windows Including a Solar Control Blind and Internal Shutters for Use With Passive Solar Houses....Pages 191-194 Use in Passive Solar Architecture of Solar Dousers with a Seasonal Effect....Pages 195-203 Development of an Automatic Temperature Sensitive Air Control Device for Use with Passive Solar Gain Collectors....Pages 204-210 Self-Acting Power Cylinders for Controls in Passive Solar Buildings....Pages 211-216 Unit for Local Storage of Solar Gain....Pages 217-222 Design and Development of an Easy Made Convective Type Solar Air Collector....Pages 223-228 Solar Wall with Tiles Covered by a Layer of Spectral Selective Enamel....Pages 229-237 System for Warming the New Air Using the Solar Energy in an Individual House....Pages 238-247 Front Matter....Pages 249-249 Summary on High Performance Collectors....Pages 250-250 Development of Improved Solar Heat-Energy Absorber Surfaces....Pages 251-262 Cobalt Oxide Spectral Selective Coatings....Pages 263-271 Study and Construction of a Solar Focusing Collector Using a Deformable Mirror, in the Temperature Range 100–200°C....Pages 272-277 High Performance Collector for Small Power Systems....Pages 278-283 Front Matter....Pages 285-285 Summary on Solar Cooling Systems....Pages 286-286 Construction and Acquisition of Process Data Relative to a Prototype of a Solar Absorption Resorption Refrigerator....Pages 287-296 Front Matter....Pages 285-285 Realisation and Tests of a Solar Powered Ice Maker Using the AC 35 — CH 3 OH Intermittent Cycle....Pages 297-305 Self Operating Cooling System Using Solar Energy Small Power Experimental Plant....Pages 306-311 Development of an Autonomous Free Piston Refrigerating Unit Driven by Rankine Cycle....Pages 312-319 Front Matter....Pages 321-321 Summary on Heat Storage....Pages 322-323 The Development and Optimisation of Cost Effective Thermal Energy Storage Systems for Solar Space Heating by Means of a Microprocessor Controlled Test Facility....Pages 324-337 The Development of a Solar Energy Installation for Space Heating and Cooling Based on Hygroscopic Materials....Pages 338-345 Energy Storage in Chemical Reaction Study of a Chemical Heat Pump....Pages 346-353 Salt Gradient Solar Pond for Solar Heat Collection and Lang Term Storage....Pages 354-362 Evaluation of Thermal Storage for Solar Heating Systems....Pages 363-373 Physical Model for the Study of Mass and Energy Transfers in the Non-Saturated Layer of Soil Located Above a Solar Energy Storage....Pages 374-379 Long Term Solar Heat Storage through Underground Water Tanks for the Heating of Housing....Pages 380-386 The Heliogeothermal Doublet: A Real Scale Test Facility....Pages 387-394 Field Test to Investigate the Performance of an Undeep Prototype Seasonal Heat Storage System with a Heat Capacity for 100 Solar Houses Using the Soil as the Storage Medium....Pages 395-403 Seasonal Heat Storage in Underground Warm Water Stores (Construction and Testing of a 500 M 3 Store)....Pages 404-412 Back Matter....Pages 413-420 Proceedings of the EC Contractors' Meeting held in Meersburg, F.R.G., 14-16 June 1982