First E.C. Conference on Solar Heating

Contributors to this Conference have shown the wide range of active and passive solar heating systems which have been researched, installed and monitored in recent years throughout western Europe and elsewhere. Yet much remains to be done if solar heating is to reach its full potential. The Conference Committee hopes that this record of the proceedings will provide a basis for the further development of these systems. Many difficulties have been surmounted in arriving at today's position. The foundations of the growing confidence of architects and engineers are to be found in the concerted programmes of research and development mounted by ty,'o of the sponsors of the Conference the European Community and the International Energy Agency. Some of the more tangible products of these programmes have been reported here: component and system behaviour has been subjected to rigorous scientific study; new test facilities have been founded; test procedures devised; simulation methods developed and evaluated; design rules formulated and checked against measured performance. It has been apparent here that the willingness to exchange information and experiences, which has always been a feature of the solar energy scene, remains as strong as ever. A further information-sharing initiative was noted on the part of another sponsor, UNESCO - the setting-up of the European Cooperative Network on Solar Energy, involving countries from both eastern and western Europe.

Proceedings of the International Conference held at Amsterdam, April 30-May 4, 1984

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Opening Session.- Opening speech.- Opening speech.- The Dutch National Solar Energy and the International Energy Agency's solar heating and cooling programme.- The status and future of the active use of solar energy.- Solar architecture.- Panel Discussion.- A report on the panel discussion.- Closing Address.- Session I Performance of Solar Heating Systems.- The European solar pilot test facilities, a powerful tool for model validation.- Combined solar system for space heating and domestic hot water supply: performance measuring data from the Danish pilot test facility.- Measured performance of experimental and commercial solar heating systems.- The active solar building of Bourgoin-Jallieu: lessons from 5 years of measurements.- Performance monitoring of solar heating systems.- Field measurement on 65 single family SDWH systems throughout France.- European passive solar test facility.- The performance of air cooled collector systems in Dutch field tests.- Performance of 12 passive and/or active solar houses in Bassens, France.- Summary of performance results from the U.S. residential class B monitoring program.- Measurement of passive solar gain within the project Landstuhl.- Three years of array performance of different types of evacuated tubular solar collectors.- Swedish solar heating plants with seasonal storage System design influence on thermal performance and economy.- Solar heating plant at Mount Zugspitze.- Measurement and evaluation techniques for solar heating systems.- Performance results from a large solar heating and cooling system operational since 1981 near Marseille (France).- Performance monitoring of appartment buildings in Berlin.- Description and experimental long range evaluation of a solar electric plant installed in a residential building in Southern Italy.- Simulation and monitoring of solar domestic hot water systems.- Solar heating test design facility for bulk PCM storage.- Low energy passive solar houses at Milton Keynes, United Kingdom.- Session II Correlation Methods and Design Tools.- Design and validation of simplified methods for sizing active solar space heating systems.- F-chart in European climates.- The SEU design method.- Comparison of the REM heating energy calculation procedure to measured data.- A micro-computer aided design tool: CASAMO.- Analytical model for the input/output energy relationship.- Performance and cost evaluation of solar passive buildings in Greece.- Upper limit of the useful solar heat achievable in the Central European climates with DHW and heating systems. Important technical factors determining the useful solar heat of a solar system.- Experience in modelling and experimenting of thermosyphonic solar water heaters with heat exchanger.- Simulation of solar air-heating systems.- Accuracy and limitation of the LESO-A simplified method.- A simple design method for solar heating systems with in-ground long term storage.- Easy-to-use methods for performance evaluation of active solar space heating systems.- A simple method for performance evaluation of solar domestic hot water systems.- Design tool for buried horizontal heat exchanger.- SUNSYST: the computer program for solar energy.- IEA Task VIII: passive and hybrid solar low energy buildings.- Statistical methods for the storage size optimization in solar hot water systems.- Session III Research and Development of Passive Solar Components.- Innovative passive/hybrid solar design concepts employed in the U.S..- Building components with integrated latent heat storage.- Energy-savings due to the integration of a thermogenious element in prefabricated facades.- Sunspace performance within an overall high rise building retrofit.- Use in passive solar architecture of sunlight dousers with a seasonal effect.- Optical measurements on a variable transparency window using selective catadioptric reflection.- Recherche et développement d'architecture climatique et de composants solaires.- Simple air collectors for preheating fresh air.- Transparent insulation system for passive solar energy utilization in buildings.- Composant solaire passif à lames mobiles et à stockage par chaleur latente.- The design of a low-cost housing estate with the use of thermal inertia in a solar roof, under the climatic conditions of Bolivia.- Hybrid solar low energy buildings in Denmark.- Mass produced passive components for low-cost multistory building.- Open-loop thermosyphon solar-energy space heating.- Study of natural convection within a large cavity First results.- Passive solar houses with energy efficient solar walls containing paraffin.- A hybrid collector-latent heat storage wall for air conditioning.- Effective 'U' value.- High performance passive solar heating system with heat pipe energy transfer.- Session IV Important Active and Passive Solar Topics.- An assessment of energy performances of the housing stock in Italy: experimental data from 1000 dwellings.- An assessment of the prospects for solar thermal application in Europe.- Energy balance and thermal comfort in passive solar housing.- Passive solar educational support for European architects.- A graphical method to assess passive solar gains in the existing housing stock of the United Kingdom.- Evaluation and development of thermal analysis models within the IEA solar heating and cooling programme, task VIII Passive and hybrid solar low energy buildings.- Comfort aspects in overglazed environments.- Transparent insulating materials: a possibility for reducing the consumption of fossil fuel in households.- The Swedish solar heating programme.- Integrated design exemplified by solar cavity wall houses.- Experimental study of free convection in a room model using a collector storage wall.- Performance of passive solar systems in Dutch low-rise housing.- The potential for solar heating in central urban areas: a case study.- Air solar collecting roof for a low-energy sports-hall building.- A review of the use of selective absorbers in foil form for passive solar collectors.- Passive solar design in non-domestic buildings.- The use of passive solar gains for the pre-heating of ventilation air in housing.- The Sophia Antipolis passive test facility.- Solar radiation and pyranometry studies for solar energy applications: an overview of IEA task IX.- The design and establishment of a solar energy research centre in Greece.- Solar heated swimming pools in Europ…