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US 10,823,460 B2Granted
Integral collector storage solar water heater
OwnerJose Lebron, Sheilla Torres-Nievesinventors
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Abstract
An integral collector storage solar water heat collecting apparatus comprises an integral solar heat collecting and storage apparatus having one or more solar ray and ambient temperature heat absorbing and storage material(s) which hold said energy within an enclosure, said enclosure having within it one or more heat exchange coils with pressurized water to be heated for the end-user or client from said heat storage. Said heat collector is combined with other system components to provide heated water to users.
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A solar heating system for heating water comprising:
- a heat collector enclosure having at least one broad spectrum quality opening designed to be translucent to solar radiation;
- heat storage components within said heat collector enclosure, said heat storage components comprised of one or more heat storage enclosures, each said heat storage enclosure having a sealed volume containing a thermal mass mix of materials and one or more lengths of tubing within said sealed volume;
- wherein said thermal mass mix of materials is comprised of water in addition to a phase changing material suspended above said water;
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- two or more sealed interface openings within each said heat collector enclosure and each said heat storage enclosures to allow for fluid contact between the lengths of tubing inside each said sealed heat storage enclosure inner volume and pipes external to said solar heating system, wherein all or part of said length of tubing travels across said phase changing material as well as across said water.
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A solar heating system for heating water comprising:
- a heat collector enclosure having at least one broad spectrum quality opening designed to be translucent to solar radiation;
- heat storage components within said heat collector enclosure, said heat storage components comprised of one or more heat storage enclosures, each said heat storage enclosure having a sealed volume containing a thermal mass mix of materials and one or more lengths of tubing within said sealed volume;
- wherein said thermal mass mix of materials is comprised of water in addition to a phase changing material suspended above said water, wherein all or part of said length of tubing travels across said phase changing material as well as across said water;
- two or more sealed interface openings within each said heat collector enclosure and each said heat storage enclosures to allow for fluid contact between the lengths of tubing inside each said sealed heat storage enclosure inner volume and pipes external to said solar heating system
- a mixing valve that mixes water from a water supply system with that exiting said coil tubing, said mixture ratio being such that the water does not exceed a specified maximum temperature;
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- one or more supplemental heaters that take the mixing valve output fluid and if necessary, apply supplemental heat to bring it to a programmed temperature.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.