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Compound solar collector building construction
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Inventors: Pierce-Bjorklund, Patricia;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner: Kamen; Noah P.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
A compound construction matrix harvests energy incident on all peripheries of a building by providing compound components having anterior and posterior portions with respect to radiation, the anterior portions being generally transparent and the posterior portions being selectively translucent, transparent or opaque, the compound components being arranged in communicating relation to form walls and roofs having multiple internal cavities and passages between cavities which permit light and air to flow freely within the matrix, allowing light incident form any angle to be reflected from cavity sidewalls toward posterior portions to form overlapping incidence on translucent conversion surfaces and to pass through tinted conversion means for direct gain, and allowing air in each cavity to expand freely in any direction from sunlit to shaded portions and through apertures toward shaded portions of adjacent cavities, to thereby form a dynamic airstream passing over translucent conversion surfaces and non-transparent conversion surfaces, seeking equilibrium surface temperatures throughout the matrix and removing energy developed in each cavity, the temperature of the air stream being modified by the thermal properties of the material of fabrication of the matrix and coatings and devices placed in matrix cavities, all cavities forming a single vessel, chambered manifold extending about the periphery of a building and performing all functions of a solar collector e.g. retention, conversion and distribution of incident energy while also providing the structural walls and light transmissive skin of the building. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION It has now been found that certain of the foregoing and related objects of the invention are readily attained in a solar collector array comprised of the following components which form a generic building construction collector system and which also form independent collector sub-systems.
Each wall component, transparent or opaque, is modified to attain Trombe flow in x, y, and z directions when assembled in array: 1) A hollow transparent glass block with a body-tinted partially transparent absorber posterior pane and a transparent receptor anterior pane, with openings in 4 or more side walls to attain planar manifold flow with adjacent blocks, serves as a conversion block and forms a conversion block array which may communicate by planar flow with adjacent block arrays of different thermal properties.
2) A hollow glass block, entirely transparent, and with openings in each side wall for planar manifold flow and no openings in the transparent anterior and posterior panes, serves as a airstream during optimal low temperature 90.
degree.
F.
collection and also permits direct gain to the interior ambient thru the airstream during collection cycle.
This transparent glass block array may have accessory conversion devices placed within each cavity such as photovoltaic or photothermal cells for airstream warm-up or concentric copper rings suspended within it for conversion purposes.
3) A hollow transparent coverplate glass block with a clear anterior pane and with openings in each side for planar manifold flow and the posterior pane open for z direction flow, serves as: a) the exit and entry block from the array.
b) the renovation or retrofit block to convert existing walls to Trombe flow.
c) the cover plate block for structural masonry block or foamglass block, both of the latter modified for manifold flow in x, y, and z directions.
4) Masonry concrete block and brick: a) A single masonry concrete block component is contoured on its receptor face to form a vertical and lateral duct and is notched or dimensioned in the same face to attain intercommunicating convective flow passages linking internal cavities of the block with the external conversion cavities
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