Solar Hot Water And New Construction

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Designing and constructing new homes requires great skill, commitment and an aptitude for innovation. The times are changing, and building techniques and systems prevalent in the past may be unchanged, entirely replaced or require some sort of adjustment for new market conditions or customer desires. A major element for construction of new homes is sustainability and efficiency, for any home, a large portion of this is energy consumed during water heating and other forms of heat. Consider cooking, laundry, cleaning, and space heating; each of these tasks uses heat which can be provided through solar hot water.

Solar hot water in new buildings can be provide heating energy needs quite easily if integrated efficiently with the structure. The start of a solar hot water system for a new building is the collector. This is in many ways the most crucial choice, the determining step for your energy yields, reliability and cost. The Solar Beam Concentrator from Solartron Energy Systems is a collector appropriate for these both retrofits and solar hot water in new buildings. The Solar Beam Concentrator is a parabolic dish ...
... with two-axis tracking capabilities, following the sun with 0.1 degree precision throughout the day. The entire system is controlled by a customized industrial computer, the solar hot water system’s brain is durable and intelligent.

The Solar Beam has been certified by multiple independent organizations across the globe. In America, the solar hot water system holds SRCC certification, and in Canada holds CSA certification. In Europe, the Solar Beam is held to the Solar Key mark standards, and has also been certified to Australia/New Zealand standards. Across the world, people have the utmost confidence in the Solar Beam’s operation the system stands powerful and ready to produce solar hot water in new buildings. It excels in east of operation and installation. The Solar Beam can be built and installed in 2 days, and when combined with a new building, much of the work can be coordinated efficiently. The heat transfer fluid within, a propylene glycol mixture, reaches 97 degrees Celsius (200F), temperatures low enough to use cheap and easy pox tubing outside until interfaced with the hot water system indoors. From this point, traditional copper tubing takes over. The heated water can be sent for cleaning, cooking, in floor heating or even cooling with an efficient absorption chiller of an appropriate size.

Anyone in the business of construction, whether residential, commercial or industrial, should consider the possibilities of solar hot water in a new building. The Solar Beam can provide the energy necessary in a sleek, futuristic package.

This is a guest post by James Peter. He is a fairly well-known solar hot water and Solartron Energy Systems.