Adsorption solar heating and storage system

Abstract

A typical solar energy flat plate collector whose volume is filled with a zeolite such as Linde Co.'s type 13X or LMS type 4A. The zeolite bed provides a means of chemical storage of solar energy for sunless periods through its potential "heat of adsorption". During sunless hours, stored energy in the form of latent heat of adsorption is released by allowing amounts of the adsorbate, water in this case, to be adsorbed by the zeolite bed. The zeolite bed is purged of this adsorbate during the sunny hours through the stagnation heat inside the solar collector and also by the purgative airflow through the bed, caused by a circulative system containing a radiator, a blower fan, a water atomizer and injector, and a water condenser that is passive through heatsinking to the ground below the building to be heated. Another mode for this system is described wherein the air in the building is circulated through the zeolite bed so that hydrocarbon pollutants are adsorbed and the air purified.

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