A solar heating plant in Studsvik: Design and first year operational performance
Abstract
Group solar heating plants offer one of the most promising ways of economically utilizing solar energy for space heating purposes. A relatively advanced prototype installation was built at Studsvik on the Swedish east coast south of Stockholm. The installation is based on a cheap, excavated and insulated water store with a floating insulating cover. The solar collectors are mounted on the cover, which turns to track the Sun. This increases the efficiency of the concentrating collectors by between 30 and 50 percent. The heat is used as the sole heat source for an adjacent office building, designed for low temperature heating.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- December 1980
- Bibcode:
- 1980STIN...8119640R
- Keywords:
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- Energy Policy;
- Solar Collectors;
- Solar Energy;
- Solar Heating;
- Sweden;
- Concentrators;
- Energy Technology;
- Solar Reflectors;
- Space Heating (Buildings);
- Energy Production and Conversion