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Architectural Climate Control

A conference discussing the promise of heating and cooling using unglazed collectors and related systems was held at Zomeworks in Albuquerque, NM on November 8-9, 2002. The event was organized by Steve Baer (President, Zomeworks), Bill Mingenbach (The Architects, Taos, NM) and Bruce Davis (Architect, Albuquerque, NM).


Conference papers and slides follow below:

Steve Baer, Zomeworks Corporation

    Architectural Cool Cell

    Work Leading Up to the Architectural Cool Cell

    Cooling with Pool Heaters

    Di-thermal Cool CellSystems - part of passive solar

    Di-thermal Roofs

    Night and Day

    Temperatures of Heated vs. Unheated Plates

    Energy Storage

    Storing Heat for Cloudy Winter Days and Coolth for Sunny Summer Nights



Richard Rhodes, FAFCO

    Possible Cooling Products from Pool Heating Industry (slides)


Francis de Winter, Atlas Corp.

    Heat Transfer (Loss or Gain) Coefficients from Bare Flat Plate Solar Heat Collectors

   

Jay Burch, NREL

    Extended Abstract for ASES 2003: Geographical Variation of the Performance of Multi-use Unglazed Collector Systems
    Extended Abstract for ASES 2003: Modeling of Unglazed Collector Systems and Initial Results
    Unglazed Parametrics (ZIP file of MS Excel doc)


Tim Merrigan, NREL
Roof Integrated Solar Absorbers: The Measured Performance of "Invisible" Solar Collectors

    Slides
    Paper (reprint)