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7063126 Heat exchange assembly  
A roofing panel ( 13 ) incorporating a heat exchange assembly is described, the roofing panel including: an internal fluid passageway ( 51 ) formed between a pair of spaced substantially parallel...
7032588 Method and apparatus for preheating ventilation air for a building  
An apparatus for pre-heating ventilation air for a building. The apparatus includes a first sunlight-absorbent collector panel on the building. The panel is exposed to ambient air and defines a...
6619283 Solar collector pipe  
An improved solar collector pipe that directly conveys fluid to be heated and collects and transfers solar energy efficiently and directly to the internal fluid, thereby maximizing both the amount...
6604521 Solar collector pipe  
An improved solar collector pipe that directly conveys fluid to be heated and collects and transfers solar energy efficiently and directly to the internal fluid, thereby maximizing both the amount...
6244264 Non-imaging optical illumination system  
A passive solar collector has a reflector or a plurality of reflectors in a tube that is in a partial vacuum and is entirely or partly transparent. An absorber collects light reflected by the...
6082354 Solar collector  
A solar collector plate (1) comprises a dark-colored absorber plate (2) facing the sun, parallel wall sheets (4) arranged perpendicularly to the rear side of the absorber sheet (2), fixed thereto...
6003508 Solar receiver  
A solar receiver (1) for a solar-thermal power plant, comprising a receiver surface (2) facing towards the concentrated incident solar radiation (8) and including a plurality of mutually spaced...
5931158 Pressure vessel  
An improved pressure vessel which has a fluid flowing through it can be simply manufactured and has a high operational safety. The fluid may be heated by radiation, such as solar radiation. A...
5850831 Loose-tight-loose twist, twisted-tape insert solar central receiver  
This invention reduces a molten salt, solar central receiver's size, pressure loss and cost by using a loose-tight-loose twist, twisted-tape insert inside the receiver's tubes to enhance the tube's...
5797387 Absorber  
The invention relates to an absorber designed to absorb radiation and to transfer the energy of the radiation to a heat transport medium. To provide an absorber with high efficiency, the absorber...
5715809 Receiver for converting concentrated solar radiation  
A high-temperature receiver for converting concentrated solar radiation has a channel with an inlet and an outlet. An areal air-permeable support element is connected to the inlet. An absorber...
5483950 Solar device with an air receiver and air return  
A solar device has an air receiver with a housing and an absorber connected within the housing. The absorber is heated by solar radiation. The absorber has an upstream side and a downstream side,...
5449466 Apparatus and method for photocatalytic treatment of a fluid  
An apparatus is disclosed for the photocatalytic treatment of a fluid, including inlet means for supplying fluid to the apparatus; exposing means for exposing the fluid to ultraviolet light; and...
5313933 Solar collector with fiber material absorber layer  
A solar collector converts solar radiation to heat energy over a specified surface area and collects the heat energy by trickle feeding a heat transfer fluid over a trickle feed absorber surface...
5285363 Heat transfer unit  
A xenon arc lamp (10, 12) used as a high intensity light source for a liquid crystal light valve projector includes a cold mirror (16) that reflects visible reading light (18a, 18b) to the liquid...
5275148 Solar heat exchange system  
A solar heat exchange system is disclosed which includes a header or manifold conduit which includes multiple radially disposed apertures therein. A flexible elastomeric mat which includes multiple...
5245986 Solar receiver  
A central solar receiver with a volumetric solar absorber. The volumetric absorber comprises an array of absorber members mounted on a base body and facing a window that admits concentrated solar...
4981172 Mechanism for heat transfer  
A device for heat transfer or for heat dissipation from an object to a fluid, especially air is disclosed. The device is coated at least in part with shavings, metal wires or coarse metal powder...
4913129 Solar receiver having wind loss protection  
A central solar receiving tower includes an air permeable heating surface which is exposed directly to the ambient. The heating surface receives solar radiation from a heliostat field and a warm...
4887521 Method for arranging of ventilation of building and structure for applying of the method  
Method and apparatus for ventilating a building, in the rooms of which building there is induced a pressure that is different from the outside pressure. Air on one side of the wall of the building...
4873061 Fixation of nitrogen by solar energy  
Mixtures of reactant gases containing nitrogen ar reacted by being raised to very high temperatures at the focal plane of a solar concentrator when radiant energy is absorbed by a metal screen or...
4850338 Solar collector system with radiation concentrated on heat absorber vanes  
A rectangular frame contains a plurality of upwardly opening trays each having a heat absorber element with a plurality of upstanding vanes. A lens associated with each tray concentrates incident...
4777935 Receiver for solar energy  
The receiver has fibrous material in the form of hanging wires or knitted metal mats in the entry of the duct to absorb radiant energy. A cooling medium, such as air, is passed over the fibrous...
4763641 Solar energy absorber  
A solar energy absorber module having a molded top sheet of translucent plastic material and a molded bottom sheet of solar absorbing plastic material bonded together by circular bond indentations...
4665895 Ellipsoidal solar dish concentrator  
A solar dish concentrator is provided having a rotationally symmetrical elliptical shape for focusing an uniform flux density of solar radiation on a receiver. The solar flux pattern reflected to...
4649902 Solar collector  
A solar collector has first and second windows and an absorber behind the second window. A layer of material is provided on the interior surface of the first window, to which a fluid is supplied...
4649901 Solar heating system  
A passive solar heating system is disclosed which is used in conjunction with doors and windows exposed to solar radiation and having at least partially transparent glazing. Said system comprises a...
4643168 Liquid cooled fiber thermal radiation receiver  
A radiation-to-thermal receiver apparatus for collecting radiation and converting it to thermal energy is disclosed. The invention includes a fibrous mat material which captures radiation striking...
4561423 Solar parabolic collector  
A water-heating solar parabolic collecting and concentrating apparatus comprises a pair of inclined parabolic reflectors positioned side by side on a rotary framework with upwardly extending...
4556049 Integrated solar collector  
A solar collector having a copper panel in a contiguous space relationship with a condenser-evaporator heat exchanger located under the panel, the panel having a honeycomb-like structure on its...
4513731 Solar heat collector  
A solar heat collector for use at a predetermined latitude includes a surface of revolution comprising an inner, upwardly convex right conical frustum and an outer, upwardly concave right conical...
4512333 Solar collector panel and method  
A solar collector panel having a solar energy collector plate and means for flowing a fluid along one side of the plate in a perpendicular serpentine path so that the fluid is repetitively moved...
4499893 Solar heat receiver  
A receiver for converting solar energy to heat a gas to temperatures from 700°-900° C. The receiver is formed to minimize impingement of radiation on the walls and to provide maximum heating at...
4490204 Apparatus and method for manufacturing solar collectors  
Methods and apparatus for manufacturing solar heating devices of a type having bonded together sheets of thermoplastic material forming a flexible wall container for fluid to be heated. The methods...
4474172 Solar water heating panel  
The present invention discloses a solar water heating panel and method of constructing such a solar panel from a pair of thin sheets bonded together around their peripheral edges and having at...
4471761 Louvered air-heating solar collector  
An improved absorber unit is provided for a solar collector, said absorber unit being comprised of a unitary conductive perforated sheet, folded so that segments thereof are disposed adjacent one...
4465061 Solar energy heating panel  
A solar energy collecting and radiating panel for heating a fluid such as air circulating in an enclosure disposed behind the panel. The panel is in the form of a pan made of sheet metal, such as...
4459976 Heat exchanger or solar collector  
A heat exchanger unit comprising a particulate heat exchanging mass or pack consisting of mechanically immobilized particles having no more than 750 microns mean diameter and having a thermal...
4455998 Solar collector  
There is provided a solar collector comprising an evacuated transparent envelope having an absorber arranged therewithin. A duct containing a heat-transport medium is arranged at least partially...
4450830 Solar heat device  
Solar heat device to transfer heat energy from the sun to a fluid, comprising a frame (1) including an isolated bottom (2), heat absorbing wafers (5) having tubes (4) for the fluid, and a glass...
4446852 Terraced solar energy collector  
The present invention relates to a solar energy collector comprising a plurality of elongated heat-absorbing troughs. The elongated heat-absorbing troughs are supported in a generally parallel...
4446851 Plastic radiant exchanger  
A radiant energy exchanger is disclosed which comprises a relatively thin layer of gas permeable open-celled semi-opaque plastic foam, a layer of transparent gas impermeable plastic material on the...
4437456 Heat collector  
A heat collector and method suitable for efficiently and cheaply collecting solar and other thermal energy are provided. The collector employs a heat pipe in a gravity-assist mode and is not...
4432413 Heat absorber  
In ambient-air heat absorbers composed of many heat exchanger elements arranged one above another, the flowing air often flows too smoothly through the intermediate spaces, so that the heat...
4424803 Solar collector  
A solar collector which includes a housing having its exposed side covered with a doubled walled reinforced light pervious sheet defining with the housing an heating plenum in which a plurality of...
4416264 Solar heat collector  
A solar heat collector is described in which a filamentary heat absorber is disposed within a housing having opaque, heat-insulated sides and bottom and a plurality of partially evacuated tubular...
4416255 Wedge-shaped solar air heating device  
Wedge-shaped solar air heating device adapted to be mounted exteriorly of a building with its tapered end uppermost and in operative relationship with a window opening or other opening in the wall...
4414961 Solar energy collecting panel and apparatus  
The present invention relates to a solar energy collecting panel and an apparatus for utilizing of the panel. The collecting panel comprises a first layer of heat absorbing material. A fiber mat...
4412430 Inflatable-structure apparatus for cooling a heat exchange fluid  
This invention concerns an inflatable-structure apparatus for cooling a heat exchange fluid comprising a flexible cylindrical casing of plastic material which is permeable to infra-red rays, said...
4399919 Vacuum flask  
In a flask comprising a closed vessel with double walls enclosing a vacuum, layers of substances capable of absorbing light-rays and/or of selectively acting upon light-rays are applied to enable...
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