Heating System

Over the last few days, since my 51st birthday exactly a week ago today I have been visiting a very interesting blog of a spanish guy who is into many varied things. Many of which I have been interested for a long time. The ones that interested me most were the pages on DIY, particularly regarding heating and the use of home coils for water heating, boilers built using old oil tanks and stuff like that. Also I was impressed to see how courageous and involved he is in his work particularly as I say with stoves and heating systems and so many other things. I liked it so much that I wrote a few pages and tried to post them in different parts of his blog. 

Unfortunately I'm not sure he has blocked the comments as they were probably redundant or of no use to him or maybe I'm not using the system correctly. I suspect the former. However, all is good, if he has decided not to publish my entries it’s his loss as I consider myself fairly knowledgeable in these things albeit only on the theory side. Taking the project to fruition is or has been another matter, and money and time has had a lot to do with it. For some reason money and time never seem to come along at the same time, either I have loads of time to roll my thumbs but not a penny or I have good money coming in but no time to do anything. Talking about the last four year's roller coaster!. I hope to go back to those four years as this blog develops. I really need it. Not only to know where I come from, of which I have a fairly healthy notion but also to get a feeling of where I go from here which is something it gets blurry at times. I hope I’ll manage to keep the sour bits out. In any case this guy's blog has inspired me to create (or in this case re-create) my own and use it as a reference for my project or whatever I feel like writing about.

 Update, the guy is definitely ignoring my entries. Small dick syndrome. Och well, good thing is he inspired me.

To begin with I would like to enter details of my project for heating a house, hopefully my next house, with a wood burning boiler stove, solar panels and a thermal storage tank. I’ve been collecting data for the last four of five years and now I feel it’s the time to try to get all that organized rather than stored and accumulated in one or two hard drives. I was amazed when I began to investigate and I discovered there was so much to learn. I was amazed to discover the technology behind the use of renewable resources, heating systems, solar panels, heat pumps, wind mills to produce electricity, etc. I had no idea there was an entire world out there waiting to be discovered and explored, so I began my exploration. 

In the meantime I'm still learning how to stick here ideas I come across the internet. Like heating water with solar panels, preferably home made or DIY. Let's have a look to see if it works. By the way the above schematics are for a Torrent Solar system but the concept is very much the same regardless of the make. Only TiSun seems to have an external solar heat exchange coil with a rather interesting infrared video showing the heat transfer and rise in temperature inside the tank.

Very interesting place with loads of information from the USA. Concentrating solar collectors 

This article offers an illustrated description of a method to produce a closed parabolic trough solar energy collector box. It gives dimensions in metric and imperial to build a true Parabolic Solar Trough.

www.builditsolar.com/Projects/Concentrating/diy-enParabolicTroughPlans.pdf

 And this one full of ideas and 'how-tos' from the UK

Wind Turbine Water Heating Storage Tank Heating Element using DC electricity.

This other one that sells Hot Water Storage Tanks in Spain. Latento storage tanks made in Germany.

Solar Hot Water Storage Tanks Latento

I'v just found an Aragonian Company which seems to do all the type of installations I'm looking for. The name is Oscasolar. Created in 2008, based in Binéfar, Huesca, they are the sole (?) Climaboard distributors for Spain. They also fit Vacuum Tube Solar Panels "Heat-Pipe"and storage heaters although the brand they carry is not specified. The web page itself is not the best I've visited but at least there is a contact pag. They can be found here: Oscasolar

Solar water heating - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia As it says on the name, encyclopaedic.


http://www.solarcollect.co.uk/downloads/solcollinstman.pdf

A couple of Biomass projects from Dunster Biomass:

Wood chip case study | Alvie Manse, Scotland

Nethergill Farm, Accommodation in the Yorkshire dales, National Park. Bed and breakfast in a traditional farm house near Skipton, Yorkshire.


Concentrating solar collectors Very interesting web page.




DIY heating project. Loads of info.


http://www.ikkaro.com/files/acs%2C%20calefaccion%20y%20refrigeracion%20por%20energia%20solar.pdf