Solar Heating With Parabolic Concentrators

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The sun beams down an enormous amount of radiation to the earth every day, all across the globe. This energy can be harvested and used by society in the two major forms, heat and electricity. Considering heat, the sun can provide power, through solar heating, for many major areas of human's energy consumption. Solar heating can be used for domestic hot water purposes (i.e. Cooking, cleaning, laundering), as well as interior heating (through hydronic space heating, or forced air convection) and even industrial process heat (bottling, beer and wine making, textiles and clothing). It is a versatile and renewable form of energy, quite appropriate for use around the world.

Solar heating requires a solar collector, the essential part of the circuit that absorbs energy from the sun, for use with the system. This device must combine principles of optics, mechanics and thermodynamics to strike a balance between durability, efficiency and power. Day in, day out, the solar heating collector will be transferring the sun's rays into heat. This task can be accomplished through a variety of techniques. Concentrating collectors ...
... can easily be used to save space in a solar heating setup. This style of solar heating collector focuses the suns' rays onto an absorber, resulting in higher temperatures and greater resistance to cold temperatures, there is less space for heat to be radiated away from the collector before being used.

Concentration can be achieved through reflective mirrors. A parabolic shape ensures that all radiation striking the mirror is absorbed centrally on the device. There are both parabolic troughs and parabolic dishes. The dishes hold a significant advantage over troughs, they do track on two-axis (North/South and East/West), while a trough must be placed along one of these axes. If it is oriented along the North-South axis, there is more peak power than if it were placed along the East-West axis; where the solar heating system would have more even heating throughout the day. A parabolic dish, such as the SolarBeam Concentrator from Solartron Energy Systems has the advantage of being able to follow very precisely. With this particular model, the precision is at 0.1 degree precision at any time of day, anywhere on the globe. The dish focuses the sun's rays onto a central absorber, a square rather than a line,

The system is certified across the globe by multiple testing organizations. In the USA, the system has certification from the SRCC, in Canada, it has been certified by the CSA. The Solar Heating system has also been certified to Keymark standards in Europe, as well as AS NZS standards in Australia and New Zealand. All over the world, people have confidence in the 11kW solar concentrator. The powerful solar heating system has a dedicated industrial computer which tracks the sun, and monitors the system, acting instantly in case of any out of the ordinary circumstances. The brain of the solar heating system is also capable of ethernet communication, for data-logging purposes. For more information, contact Solartron Energy Systems today.

Here the author James Peter says about Solar hot water heater and Solar power, for more details please visit http://www.solartronenergy.com/.