Solar Water Heater

Authored by the Franklin Research Center, the United States. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development and the U. S. Department of Energy

Heating water with the sun is almost as old as humankind itself, and it is done all over the world. Yet there are strangely few resources on the topic in North America.

Solar Water Heating fills this gap. It reviews the history of solar water and space heating systems from prehistory to the present, then presents the basics of solar water heating, including an introduction to modern solar energy systems, energy conservation and energy economics. Drawing on the author's experience as an installer of these systems, the book goes on to cover:

* Types of solar collectors, solar water and space heating systems and solar pool heating systems, including their advantages and disadvantages
* System components, their installation, operation, and maintenance
* System sizing and siting
* Choosing the appropriate system.

Since people often get turned off by the up-front cost, the book focuses especially on the financial aspects of solar water or space heating systems, clearly showing that such systems can save significant costs in the long run. Well-illustrated, the book is designed for a wide readership from the curious to the student or professional.

Bob Ramlow is the solar thermal consultant for the Wisconsin Focus on Energy Program. The owner of a renewable energy company, he has over 30 years experience with solar energy systems and is a founder and director of the Midwest Renewable Energy Association (MREA). Benjamin Nusz currently works as a solar water heating consultant and site assessor in Wisconsin.

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How to Build a Solar Hot Water System will not only show you how to build solar collectors and heat storage vaults, but it will also explain how to install and run the entire solar heating and hot water system. A CD-ROM multimedia show called SUN HEAT is included to get you off to a good start. Back up support from is available from www.JC-SolarHomes.com

* Presents the collaborative work of international experts from research, industry and academia in the IEA solar heating and cooling programme's Task 26, Solar Combisystems
* Details methods for analysing and optimizing combisystems for different house types
* Introduces standardized classification and evaluation processes and design tools for these systems

The use of solar collectors for domestic hot water over the past 20 years has demonstrated that solar heating systems are now founded on a reliable and mature technology. However, the development of similar, but more complex, systems to provide both domestic hot water and space heating (solar combisystems) resulted in a diverse range of different designs that were not carefully optimized to reflect local climate and practice.

Application of energy-efficient building strategies such as improved thermal insulation and use of low temperature heat supply systems is becoming increasingly common. This trend, combined with growing environmental awareness and the subsidies available in certain countries, favors an increase in market share for solar combisystems. The need for guidelines in selecting the appropriate system and designing this system according to the specific needs of the building and the local environment is therefore now increasingly pressing. This book fills that need.
Contributors include key figures working on solar combisystems worldwide (Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, USA).

About the Author
Werner Weiss is a mechanical engineer and managing director of AEE INTEC in Austria, with nearly 20 years experience in the field of solar energy technologies.