First E.C. Conference on Solar Heating

Opening Session.- Opening speech.- Opening speech.- The Dutch National Solar Energy and the International Energy Agency’s solar heating and cooling programme.- The status and future of the active use of solar energy.- Solar architecture.- Panel Discussion.- A report on the panel discussion.- Closing Address.- Session I — Performance of Solar Heating Systems.- The European solar pilot test facilities, a powerful tool for model validation.- Combined solar system for space heating and domestic hot water supply: performance measuring data from the Danish pilot test facility.- Measured performance of experimental and commercial solar heating systems.- The active solar building of Bourgoin-Jallieu: lessons from 5 years of measurements.- Performance monitoring of solar heating systems.- Field measurement on 65 single family SDWH systems throughout France.- European passive solar test facility.- The performance of air cooled collector systems in Dutch field tests.- Performance of 12 passive and/or active solar houses in Bassens, France.- Summary of performance results from the U.S. residential class B monitoring program.- Measurement of passive solar gain within the project “Landstuhl”.- Three years of array performance of different types of evacuated tubular solar collectors.- Swedish solar heating plants with seasonal storage — System design influence on thermal performance and economy.- Solar heating plant at Mount Zugspitze.- Measurement and evaluation techniques for solar heating systems.- Performance results from a large solar heating and cooling system operational since 1981 near Marseille (France).- Performance monitoring of appartment buildings in Berlin.- Description and experimental long range evaluation of a solar electric plant installed in a residential building in Southern Italy.- Simulation and monitoring of solar domestic hot water systems.- Solar heating test design facility for bulk PCM storage.- Low energy passive solar houses at Milton Keynes, United Kingdom.- Session II — Correlation Methods and Design Tools.- Design and validation of simplified methods for sizing active solar space heating systems.- F-chart in European climates.- The SEU design method.- Comparison of the REM heating energy calculation procedure to measured data.- A micro-computer aided design tool: CASAMO.- Analytical model for the input/output energy relationship.- Performance and cost evaluation of solar passive buildings in Greece.- Upper limit of the useful solar heat achievable in the Central European climates with DHW and heating systems. Important technical factors determining the useful solar heat of a solar system.- Experience in modelling and experimenting of thermosyphonic solar water heaters with heat exchanger.- Simulation of solar air-heating systems.- Accuracy and limitation of the LESO-A simplified method.- A simple design method for solar heating systems with in-ground long term storage.- Easy-to-use methods for performance evaluation of active solar space heating systems.- A simple method for performance evaluation of solar domestic hot water systems.- Design tool for buried horizontal heat exchanger.- SUNSYST: the computer program for solar energy.- IEA Task VIII: passive and hybrid solar low energy buildings.- Statistical methods for the storage size optimization in solar hot water systems.- Session III — Research and Development of Passive Solar Components.- Innovative passive/hybrid solar design concepts employed in the U.S..- Building components with integrated latent heat storage.- Energy-savings due to the integration of a thermogenious element in prefabricated facades.- Sunspace performance within an overall high rise building retrofit.- Use in passive solar architecture of sunlight dousers with a seasonal effect.- Optical measurements on a variable transparency window using selective catadioptric reflection.- Recherche et développement d’architecture climatique et de composants solaires.- Simple air collectors for preheating fresh air.- Transparent insulation system for passive solar energy utilization in buildings.- Composant solaire passif à lames mobiles et à stockage par chaleur latente.- The design of a low-cost housing estate with the use of thermal inertia in a solar roof, under the climatic conditions of Bolivia.- Hybrid solar low energy buildings in Denmark.- Mass produced passive components for low-cost multistory building.- Open-loop thermosyphon solar-energy space heating.- Study of natural convection within a large cavity — First results.- Passive solar houses with energy efficient solar walls containing paraffin.- A hybrid collector-latent heat storage wall for air conditioning.- Effective ‘U’ value.- High performance passive solar heating system with heat pipe energy transfer.- Session IV — Important Active and Passive Solar Topics.- An assessment of energy performances of the housing stock in Italy: experimental data from 1000 dwellings.- An assessment of the prospects for solar thermal application in Europe.- Energy balance and thermal comfort in passive solar housing.- Passive solar educational support for European architects.- A graphical method to assess passive solar gains in the existing housing stock of the United Kingdom.- Evaluation and development of thermal analysis models within the IEA solar heating and cooling programme, task VIII — Passive and hybrid solar low energy buildings.- Comfort aspects in overglazed environments.- Transparent insulating materials: a possibility for reducing the consumption of fossil fuel in households.- The Swedish solar heating programme.- Integrated design exemplified by solar cavity wall houses.- Experimental study of free convection in a room model using a collector storage wall.- Performance of passive solar systems in Dutch low-rise housing.- The potential for solar heating in central urban areas: a case study.- Air solar collecting roof for a low-energy sports-hall building.- A review of the use of selective absorbers in foil form for passive solar collectors.- Passive solar design in non-domestic buildings.- The use of passive solar gains for the pre-heating of ventilation air in housing.- The Sophia Antipolis passive test facility.- Solar radiation and pyranometry studies for solar energy applications: an overview of IEA task IX.- The design and establishment of a solar energy research centre in Greece.- Solar heated swimming pools in Europe — An EC Demonstration Programme.- Session V — Solar Collectors and Second Generation Dhw and Sh-Systems.- Eight years of collector testing in Europe: what have we learned?.- NRCC air collector testing facility.- Computer model of the Nobels Peelman air heating solar collector used in the CEC6 round robin test series.- Experimental investigation of solar air collectors.- The ‘Albedo’ flat-plate solar collector.- System performance optimisation studies, for 2nd generation DHW and SH systems.- Examples of practical applications of collectors for 2nd generation solar energy systems.- Performance tests on commercial on?-family DHW solar systems.- Performance of the second generation solar heating system in the solar house of the Eindhoven University of Technology.- Evacuated collectors in cooperative International Energy Agency research and development.- Results of durability tests on various types of collectors.- Ageing resistance of solar collectors.- Four years experience in collector testing in the frame of the ENEL promotion programme for DHW systems.- Computer model of the Philips evacuated tubular solar collector used in the CEC5 round robin test series.- Design and characteristics of a flat plate slit honeycomb solar collector.- Design of direct solar floors and practical results.- A contribution to the laying down of durability and reliability tests for solar collectors.- Leistungsvergleich von zwei Sonnenheizungsanlagen zur Wassererwärmung.- Performance of unglazed flat plate heat exchangers at low temperatures.- Optimisation of solar collector area for solar thermal systems.- Investigation of indoor- and outdoor performance measurements on solar domestic hot water systems.- Design of static concentrators with the receiver immersed in a dielectric tube.- Computer-aided development of solar domestic hot water systems.- Solar domestic hot water systems in Denmark — Design, performance and costs.- Low-cost, low-weight and medium-efficiency solar collectors construction and examples.- Investigation of solar-assisted heat-pump systems using the heat recovery glazing concept.- A detailed theoretical model for a flat plate natural convection loop-type solar air collector.- Optimal control theory applied to dwelling heating system.- Performance and reliability of inexpensive single family SDHW package systems.- Performance predictions for all glass tubular evacuated absorbers.- Analysis of the climatic data necessary — Problems to be solved and application to flat-plate collectors.- Experience with collector draining and rigid mineral insulation in continental climate (Capellen — Luxembourg).- The limits of the transient method applied to the solar collectors performance measurement.- Etude expérimentale de capteurs solaires à air en région parisienne.- A second generation thermosiphon solar water heater.- Design of domestic hot water- and solar heating systems with Philips’ evacuated collectors.- A simplified solar domestic hot water and heating system with evacuated tubular heat pipe collectors.- Chauffe-eau solaire domestique à stockage intégré.- Spectrally selective transition-metal oxinitride coatings on rough substrates for application in high performance solar collectors.- Hydrophile solar collector system.- Balancing of solar heating options.- On the importance of wind velocity and ambient temperature to the performance of flat-plate collectors.- Performance of pipe type solar water heater.- Research project “Guidelines for optimal planning and construction of solar energy systems”.- Shared solar space and water heating.- Session VI — Solar Energy Applications In Agriculture and Industry.- The use of air collectors in drying processes of agricultural products.- A comparison of five solar systems for heating greenhouses.- Analysis and design of solar process water heating systems without storage for industrial and commercial applications.- The performance study of an industrial solar hot water system.- Test and modelization of a greenhouse using low temperature heating.- The performance measuring data of an air collector system for drying herbs.- Experience with advanced solar collectors for water heating: technical and economic aspects.- Contribution to the simultaneous production of fresh water and salt.- Drying of grapes in cabinet solar dryer — Preliminary results.- A combined system for heat recovery and solar energy utilization in automobile lacquering shops.- Solar distillation for ethanol production.- Solar energy system in order to control the micro-climate from the horticulture in greenhouses.- Experimental results of air solar collector storage in soil heating system for an industrial building.- Low temperature heat storage for greenhouses.- Two phase flow guidance in a steam producing solar collector for process heat supply for the food industry.- Assessment study of the potential use of solar energy in agriculture.- The performance measuring data of a DHW and stable heating system.- Modelling and monitoring solar energy projects in the Dutch agriculture.- Solar restoration of a neoclassical hotel in Athens, Greece.- Solar energy storage for zootechnie applications.- Heat transfer in a solar in-door cooker.- Session VII — Solar Heat Storage, Short Term and Interseasonal Storage Concepts.- Thermal storage of solar energy.- A European test procedure for testing solar storage devices.- The work within the International Energy Agency on central solar heating plants with seasonal storage.- A seasonal storage solar heating system for the Charlestown, Boston Navy Yard National Historic Park.- Validation of the generalized model based storage test procedure by means of dynamic simulation tests.- Salt gradient solar pond for solar heat collection and long term storage.- Solar heating with annual heat storage — Modelling and practice.- Seasonal storage of building waste heat in an aquifer.- The seasonal heat store in Groningen — Results of experiments — Validation of heat storage models.- The SUNCLAY and KULLAVIK projects — Heat storage in clay at low and high temperature.- Thermal analysis of the behaviour of a low-pressure hot-water store.- The solar heat storage twin-system of the Lübeck solar house as an example of a second generation interseasonal storage concept.- Thermal performance testing of a latent heat storage unit.- Soil mechanics aspects of seasonal heat storage in Groningen.- Long term storage of solar energy in silicagel-water systems for space heating.- Thermal heat storage in solar heating systems for domestic hot water supply.- Seasonal storage test pit — Testing of a 500 m3 store.- Seasonal-heat storage in underground warm water pit (Design of a 30 -50.000 m3 storage).- The sodiumsulphide/water system as a chemical heat pump used for long term energy storage.- A general method for determining the overall heat transfer coefficient of thermal storage embedded materials.- Determination of the thermal behaviour of a phase change encapsulated material packed bed using air as transfer fluid.- Solar heating of a large office building using seasonal aquifer thermal energy storage.- Thermal losses analysis of an interseasonal heat storage in the soil: field trials and numerical models.- Comparison between two different underground seasonal storage systems using a water vessel and soil heating tubes.- Physical model for the study of mass and energy transfers in the non-saturated layer of soil located above a solar energy storage zone.- Design and building of a test facility for thermal storage units between -30 C and +90 C.- Evaluation of the annual heat losses of an in-ground heat storage.- Sizing a latent heat storage with shell and tubes heat exchanger — A new simplified method.- Optimal control strategy of solar heating systems using a long term heat storage.- Expérimentation d’un système de chauffage utilisant pompe à chaleur et stockage de glace (résultats 82/83).- Experimentation of space heating by heliogeothermal doublet in Aulnay-sous-Bois.- Transient heat conduction in a PCM heat storage with metal structures.- Economic passive solar warm-air heating and ventilating system combined with short term storage within building components for residential houses.- Experimentation on a long term rock-bed thermal storage.- Project Wolfsburg-Glockenberg, IEA-task VII: central heating plants with seasonal storage.- Study of the thermal behaviour in free temperature evolution of a passive solar inhabited house with high inertia and long period soil ïfôat storage.- Thermal storage in phase change materials — Application to a solar air space heating system.- Energetic behaviour and economic evaluation of an inter-seasonal combined solar heat pump system for commercial building space conditioning.- Design considerations for short term heat storage systems.- Index of Authors.