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    This document discusses different passive heating systems. It describes a study that showed a collecting storage wall made of dark concrete could have its external surface temperature elevated up to 8 degrees Celsius above ambient air temperature due to diffused and reflected solar radiation. As a result, it is essential to ensure complete shading of the wall from both direct and reflected radiation, which can only be accomplished with vertical shading panels installed in summer and removed in winter. The document also mentions using a wider accessible air space between glazing and a thermal storage wall to enable cleaning and maintenance from inside buildings.

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    This document discusses different passive heating systems. It describes a study that showed a collecting storage wall made of dark concrete could have its external surface temperature elevated up to 8 degrees Celsius above ambient air temperature due to diffused and reflected solar radiation. As a result, it is essential to ensure complete shading of the wall from both direct and reflected radiation, which can only be accomplished with vertical shading panels installed in summer and removed in winter. The document also mentions using a wider accessible air space between glazing and a thermal storage wall to enable cleaning and maintenance from inside buildings.

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    This document discusses different passive heating systems. It describes a study that showed a collecting storage wall made of dark concrete could have its external surface temperature elevated up to 8 degrees Celsius above ambient air temperature due to diffused and reflected solar radiation. As a result, it is essential to ensure complete shading of the wall from both direct and reflected radiation, which can only be accomplished with vertical shading panels installed in summer and removed in winter. The document also mentions using a wider accessible air space between glazing and a thermal storage wall to enable cleaning and maintenance from inside buildings.

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    Collecting Storage Walls Trombe 46

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    This document discusses different passive heating systems. It describes a study that showed a collecting storage wall made of dark concrete could have its external surface temperature elevated up to 8 degrees Celsius above ambient air temperature due to diffused and reflected solar radiation. As a result, it is essential to ensure complete shading of the wall from both direct and reflected radiation, which can only be accomplished with vertical shading panels installed in summer and removed in winter. The document also mentions using a wider accessible air space between glazing and a thermal storage wall to enable cleaning and maintenance from inside buildings.

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    Characteristics of Various Passive Heating Systems.

    CollectingStorage Walh

    Ambient

    Surface Temperature: Ta +8 O C

    FIG. 3.8.2: Insulation&Shading of Thermal Storage Walls

    of the external surface temperature of the glazed dark wall can cause serious overheating of the interior. A study of a UCLA student in Israel (Moses, 1983) has demonstrated that the external surface temperature of a collecting storage wall, made of concrete with a dark color (absorption about . 8 5 ) , when the wall and a strip in front of it were completely shaded from direct radiation a deep overhang, is elevated above the ambient air by up to 8 C. This elevation is caused entirely by the diffused and mainly the reflected solar radiation. It demonstrates that in regions with sunny hot summers it is essential to insure complete shading of the wall, also from radiation reflected from the ground. This can be accomplished only by vertical shading, either by rollable shades or by shading panels which are installed in summer and removed in winter. f ) Design Modifications for Improved Maintenance When an accessible space, about 2 ' wide, is left between the glazing and the wall it is possible to clean the ?lazing from the inside, to repair it and also to open part of it in summer for ventilation. Such a space also enable provision of operable night insulation and summer shading protected from the winds. This wider Itair space" can facilitate greatly the application of thermal storage walls to highrise buildings, where maintenance would be very complex in the case of a wall with the conventional inaccessible air space. The author suggests t h a t the thermal Derformance o f such sunspaces w i l l be studied.

    3.2.2 Collecting/Storage Water Walls


    A s an alternative to masonry collecting storage walls, water in various containers, behind the solar glazing, can be utilized for collecting and storing solar energy. The main advantage of water as a heat storage material, compared with masonry materials, is its much higher specific heat. Compared with a value of c=1.16 (wh/kgC)for water, the corresponding value of

    3.8.4

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