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7614397 |
Solar energy storage system
A method and apparatus for storing, transporting, and releasing high grade, thermodynamically useful energy for a wide variety of uses. Solar energy is collected and reflected onto a heat storage...
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7337843 |
Solar blackbody waveguide for solar assisted oil recovery applications
A method to enhance oil shale, oil sand, asphaltic crude oil, or other high viscosity crude oil production by using a solar blackbody waveguide to heat these formations in situ. A parabolic mirror...
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7028685 |
Air conditioning system for buildings and air-conditioned building, especially a zero energy house
A method of air-conditioning a building with low heat loss, having the following steps: providing a fresh-air/outgoing-air system for feeding fresh air through a heat accumulator being located...
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6223743 |
Solar power generation and energy storage system
A solar energy collection system harvests solar energy from large open areas. A length of flexible solar collector is provided for unrolling along a supporting surface. A first layer of the solar...
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6220339 |
Energy system for buildings
An energy system for buildings uses solar absorbers, heat exchangers and heat accumulators, and has the following features to improve the thermal balance of the building: the solar absorber has...
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5954046 |
Heating and ventilation system for a building
A system for heating and ventilating a building which includes a generally peripheral foundation element which supports the external walls of the building. Room air is heated and circulated below...
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5826650 |
Devices and methods for utilization of intermittently available electric energy for heating and cooling of habitable structures
Low-cost off-peak electric energy or electric energy from natural energy sources is used for heating of cooling of system air, which is moved in a closed circuit to heat or cool the energy storage...
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5647343 |
Latent store
The invention relates to a latent store with a photosensitive storage medium and a regenerating agent. To this end, an organic storage substance with at least two stable stereoisomeric...
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5123247 |
Solar roof collector
A solar roof collector comprising a plate collector with a plurality of transparent conduits to channel a thin film of water from an insulated reservoir in order to increase the temperature of...
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5121789 |
Warm climate solar building
A solar concrete slab building specifically for a warm climate area including a motorized blower fan and duct means connecting solar wall collectors or cool ambient air to a unique pattern of...
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5103803 |
Heating and air conditioning solar heat accumulator
The invention relates to a solar accumulator, which is used to collect the sun rays to heat a heat conductive fluid medium contained within a piping system and an arrangement of plates--file bricks...
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5048507 |
Endothermic building
With reference to FIG. 3, the sloping roof (250) of a building (10) incorporates inner and outer juxtaposed metal panels, (15, 16) spaced from each other to define passageways (20) which serve as...
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4936290 |
Solar energy system
A solar energy system includes fluidically innerconnected lower and upper collectors. The lower collector includes inner and outer cabinets with an interstitial space therebetween adapted to...
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4703749 |
Solar apparatus
An improved solar apparatus for heating above 100° C. is disclosed. Said apparatus comprises a solar collector means for heating a heat transferring gas, ducting means extending from said solar...
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4686959 |
Thermal storage furnace system
A thermal storage furnace system having a mixing means in fluid communication with both a thermal storage means and a thermal storage means bypass conduit for mixing both heated fluid from the...
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4510992 |
Solar energy system
A heat storage system intended for long term storage between seasons of surplus heat collected in a solar energy system for example, comprises one or several networks of ducts laid out in an earth...
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4483318 |
Borehole reservoir
A borehole reservoir includes a plurality of vertical boreholes (5, 6) in each of which there is arranged pipes (9, 17) for feeding water to and returning water from the boreholes. In order to...
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4478210 |
Solar heating system
A self-cooling solar forced air heating collector module, and method of constructing a plurality of the same in modularized array from standarized components, for a solar heating system. The...
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4471760 |
Combined solar heater and collector
A combined solar collector and storage device comprises a housing including a plurality of wire mesh racks for retaining and storing rock therein and also including a front face formed of mesh...
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4462390 |
Modular solar greenhouse with elevated overhead heat storage material and movable insulation barriers and method and system for solar heating of attached living space using thermostat-controlled air circulation for harvesting heat
A modular solar greenhouse incorporates rigid curving frames overhead with screw and nut tracks for ease of assembly and east side and west side end modules and advantageously employs a thermally...
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4459177 |
Ground moisture transfer system
A method and an apparatus is disclosed in which solar heated air is drawn down a hole in the earth by a draft from a solar heated convection column located above the surface of the earth, the hot...
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4452227 |
Active thermal storage using the ground underlying a solar pond
An apparatus is presented for actively using the ground underlying a solar pond for storage of heat accumulated in the pond. Heated water will be injected down shallow wells and percolated through...
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4445499 |
Ground-storage of heat such as solar heat
A method of storing thermal energy in a body which is in direct thermal contact with the surrounding earth. The energy is transferred to said ground body from heat absorbing devices, specifically...
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4434785 |
Heat accumulator
An underground heat accumulator of the low temperature type for storing solar energy from a solar collector (8) by means of a plurality of buried double pipes with an outer pipe (3) and an inner...
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4425906 |
Solar heating system in a building
Solar heating system in a building with a sun collector and a heat accumulating reservoir comprising a first circuit for circulating air in a closed system through the sun collector and the...
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4412527 |
Greenhouse of an underground heat accumulation system
A greenhouse of an underground heat accumulation system wherein the radiant energy of the sun or wasted thermal energy is accumulated in the soil below the floor of the greenhouse over a prolonged...
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4398529 |
Solar heating wall
A solar heating wall including a water pipe circulation system having a plurality of separate tubes, each formed as a loop, connected between a water supply and a return. The separate tubes are...
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4397152 |
Solar furnace
A solar furnace electricity generating system is provided herein. It includes a concentrator and accumulator for the sun's rays to generate a concentrated high temperature solar beam. A heat hearth...
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4393861 |
Apparatus for the utilization of solar energy
Apparatus for the utilization of radiated solar energy to heat the interior space of a building includes a solar energy collector in the form of a south-facing wall, energy storage elements in the...
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4375806 |
Heating system
A heating system utilizing solar panels and buried ground conduits to collect and store heat which is delivered to a heat-pump heat exchanger. A heat-distribution fluid continuously circulates...
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4373573 |
Long term storage and use of solar energy
A method and system for the passive solar energy induced storage and use of thermal energy at both high and low temperatures, comprising a collector (76,110) communicating with the atmosphere for...
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4340036 |
Solar heating system for a greenhouse or other building
The present invention provides a solar heating system which is particularly suited for use in a building, such as a greenhouse, having walls defining an enclosed interior with at least one of the...
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4340032 |
Solar heating system
A subterranean furnace contains a shell in which a plurality of bricks are arranged in a mass. A mirror reflects sun light into the furnace chamber and onto a magnifying glass which concentrates...
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4338921 |
Solar liquid heating system
A solar liquid heating system having a collector receiving solar energy and heating a liquid. A liquid transfer pump moves the heated liquid to a heat transfer tank which heats water. The collector...
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4327708 |
Solar siding for buildings
Solar siding elements of very thin, high heat conductive sheet material are installed on the outer face of an exterior side wall of a building so as to form thereon a solar cover providing a...
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4324289 |
Environmental heating and cooling apparatus
An apparatus which is in one embodiment structurally integrated with a building and has a solar collector plate with a front side and back side. The collector is mounted a spaced distance from an...
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4324227 |
Solar heat collecting panel
A solar panel unit for heating circulating fluid has a plurality of preferably rectangular lenses for focusing and concentrating the sun's energy onto a heat-absorbing body through which a...
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4305381 |
Solar air collector
A solar heating system including a radiant heat collector apparatus made up of an enclosure having glazed panels. The collector provided within the enclosure is upstanding with the enclosure and...
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4304219 |
Solar energy control system
A solar energy control system for a hot air type solar energy heating system wherein thermocouples are arranged to sense the temperature of a solar collector, a space to be heated, and a top and...
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4303058 |
Passive solar heating system
A solar heated, passive storage heater located in a floor between stories of a multistory building. A heat storage medium composed of a one-foot thickness of rock is supported by modular wall...
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4300532 |
Method and apparatus for collecting solar energy
A method and device for collecting solar energy is the subject of this application. A glass cloth coated with a light absorbing resinous material is utilized as the collector panel. A glass cloth...
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4299270 |
Earth energy sink
The heat sink underlays the structure served and comprises a shallow permeable layer near the surface through which water is circulated and the earth mass below it with which heat is exchanged by...
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4299178 |
Furnace and heat storage assembly
A furnace and associated heat storage assembly includes a firebox arranged within a rock storage area that incorporates a recirculating flue arrangement for returning unburned gases to below a fuel...
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4295415 |
Environmentally heated and cooled pre-fabricated insulated concrete building
Environmentally heated and cooled pre-fabricated insulated concrete building is provided with a continuous layer of foamed insulation within all exterior walls. The building is constructed...
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4294228 |
Solar heating and subterranean cooling
A pyramidal-shaped living structure, having a triangular base plan, includes a pyramidal-shaped solar heating unit which forms the apex of the living structure. The heating unit contains a heat...
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4294038 |
Solar panel window unit
A solar panel device for use in combination with a window unit including a window frame and glass panels mounted in the window frame. The device is comprised of a shutter unit having one or more...
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4289117 |
Solar panel unit and system for heating circulating air
A solar panel unit for collecting solar heat and imparting it to circulating air has air flow directing means, desirably in the form of a perforated, corrugated baffle plate, sandwiched between a...
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4289115 |
Heating and cooling of a heavily insulated building through the use only of solar energy
This includes means and methods of keeping a heavily insulated shelter structure at a substantially even temperature night and day using only fueless solar energy to do so.
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4286575 |
Solar heat system
A solar air heating system for circulating heated air from a solar collector or a heat storage unit, or both in proportion to heat available from the collector, through a control chamber to an...
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4286574 |
Trickle-type thermal storage unit
A method and apparatus for thermal storage having a movable manifold which discharges thermal transfer fluid to trickle through a particulate solid thermal storage medium to be collected for...
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