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Energy conversion apparatus
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Inventors: Artweger, Wolfgang;
Assignee: Artweger-Industrie-Gesellschaft m.b.H. (Windischgarsten, AT)
Primary Examiner: Yeung; James C.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Kelman; Kurt
A modular solar collector comprises a plurality of detachably interconnected modules forming a closed structural surface. Each module comprises a solar collector unit with a cavity receiving a heat carrier fluid through an inlet and delivering the heated fluid through an outlet, the inlet and out each having a coupling part. The unit is carried on a mounting plate which has a conduit portion for the fluid embedded therein. The inlet and outlet ends of the conduit portion each has a coupling part. The inlet end coupling part and the outlet coupling part, on the one hand, and the outlet end coupling part and the inlet coupling part, on the other hand, are matched for detachable assembly to form detachable joints between respective registering pairs of the coupling parts for detachably assembling the unit and the mounting plate. One of the detachable joints detachably assembles adjacent ones of the mounting elements and the conduit portions detachably joined to the cavities form a conduit system for the heat carrier fluid to and from the cavities. The unit comprises a transparent front plate, a rear plate, the plates defining the cavity therebetween, and an element arranged between the outer surface of the front plate and the inner surface of the rear plate which does not transmit solar radiation. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION What is claimed is: 1.
A modular energy conversion apparatus for converting solar into thermal energy, comprising a plurality of detachably interconnected modules, each module comprising (a) an energy conversion unit arranged for exposure to solar radiation and defining a cavity capable of receiving a heat carrier fluid, the unit including (1) an inlet and an outlet for the fluid in communication with the cavity, and (2) the inlet and the outlet each having a coupling part, and (b) a mounting element carrying the energy conversion unit and including (1) a conduit portion embedded therein, and having an inlet and an outlet end, (2) the inlet and outlet ends of the conduit portion each having a coupling part, (3) the inlet end coupling part and the outlet coupling part, on the one hand, and the outlet end coupling part and the inlet coupling part, on the other hand, being matched for detachable assembly to form detachable joints between respectively registering pairs of the coupling parts for detachably assembling the energy conversion unit and the mounting element, and (4) one of the detachable joints detachably assembling adjacent ones of the mounting elements, registering ones of the coupling parts forming the one detachable joint, the conduit portions detachably joined to the cavities forming a conduit system for the heat carrier fluid to and from the cavities.
2.
The modular energy conversion apparatus of claim 1, wherein the mounting element is a plate-shaped body having an upper surface, further comprising a mounting and guide device for the energy conversion unit on the upper surface.
3.
The modular energy conversion apparatus of claim 1, wherein at least a surface region of the mounting element adjacent the energy conversion unit is of moisture-proof and thermally insulating material.
4.
The modular energy conversion apparatus of claim 3, wherein the mounting element is a multi-layered synthetic resin body.
5.
The modular energy conversion apparatus of claim 4, wherein the synthetic resin bocy is comprised of a polyurethane foam layer having laminated thereto a glass fiber reinforced synthetic resin surface layer
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