Thermal Analysis of Flat and Transpired Solar Facades

Mathematical modeling and thermal performance analysis of unglazed transpired solar collectors

Unglazed transpired collectors or UTC (also known as perforated collectors) are a relatively new development in solar collector technology, introduced in the early nineties for ventilation air heating. These collectors are used in several large buildings in Canada, USA and Europe, effecting considerable savings in energy and heating costs. Transpired collectors are a potential replacement for g...

Transpired solar collectors for ventilation air heating

g1 Richard Hall MEng, AIEMA EngD Researcher, Steel Construction Institute, Surrey EngD in Environmental Technology, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK g2 Xiaoxin Wang MSc, PhD Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK g3 Raymond Ogden DiplArch, PhD Professor, Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development, Oxford Brookes University, Oxfo...

Performance characteristics of a transpired solar air heater

Interactive Facades Analysis and Synthesis of Semi-Regular Facades

Urban facades regularly contain interesting variations due to allowed deformations of repeated elements (e.g., windows in different open or close positions) posing challenges to state-of-the-art facade analysis algorithms. We propose a semi-automatic framework to recover both repetition patterns of the elements and their individual deformation parameters to produce a factored facade representat...

Exergy Analysis of Flat Plate Solar Collectors

This study proposes the concept of the local heat loss coefficient and examines the calculation method for the average heat loss coefficient and the average absorber plate temperature. It also presents an exergy analysis model of flat plate collectors, considering non-uniformity in temperature distribution along the absorber plate. The computation results agree well with experimental data. The ...