Inertial thermal solar panel device

Abstract

Title: Inertial thermal solar panel device The invention relates to an inertial thermal solar panel device 1 comprising, essentially, a peripheral wall 2, a front wall 7 and a rear wall 8 delimiting an internal volume 9, at least the peripheral wall 2 is made of a rigid insulating material.Advantageously: - the front wall 7 is substantially constituted, from the outer side 10 towards the inner volume 9 of this device 1: • of at least two plates of translucent material 11, 11a, 11b, 11c, 11d, preferably transparent, braced by a layer 12, 12a, 12b, 12c of a gaseous fluid; • of a light-absorbing plate 13 braced by a layer 12d of a gaseous fluid with respect to the plate of translucent material 11d on the inner side 14 of the inner volume 9 of this front wall 7; - in the inner volume 9, between a bottom 15 defined by the rear wall 8 and the absorbing plate 13 of the front wall 7, is disposed at least one primary heat transfer fluid storage unit 16. Figure for the abbreviation: [Fig. 2].

Description

Title of the invention: Inertia solar thermal panel device

[0001] The present invention relates to an inertia solar thermal panel device.

[0002] Many solar thermal panel devices are already known whose main objective is to transform solar energy into thermal energy for the production of hot water. Depending on the field of application, this hot water can be used directly to heat the water in a basin such as a swimming pool, just as it can contribute, through a heat exchanger, to heating a secondary domestic hot water network or heating a home.

[0003] There are different solar thermal panel technologies. Thus, flat glazed panels are known in the form of a box of low thickness compared to its length and width, comprising a base in which an insulator resistant to high temperatures is positioned. On this insulator is usually positioned a reflector above which extends a network of heat transfer fluid pipes. A solar radiation absorbing plate, also called an absorber, rests on these pipes, while the box is finally sealed by a glass plate. This, often chosen in tempered glass, creates a greenhouse effect to promote the heating of the heat transfer fluid in the various pipes.

[0004] Also known are vacuum tubular collectors comprising a plurality of glass tubes placed next to each other on a panel-shaped support structure. Inside a tube, maintained under vacuum to prevent heat loss, extends a loop of copper pipe to the rear of an absorber.

[0005] Thermal solar panels as described above operate with very little inertia and peak effects in the sense that they are able, under the impact of solar rays, to bring the heat transfer fluid passing through them very quickly and to a high temperature, this heat transfer fluid falling back just as quickly in temperature in the absence of sunshine. It is therefore essential to associate with such known thermal solar panels a heat transfer fluid buffer tank making it possible to attenuate these sudden variations.

[0006] However, during prolonged periods of sunshine and therefore significant production of heat transfer fluid at high temperature, installations incorporating such thermal solar panels are often put to the test, particularly when the heat transfer fluid reaches its boiling temperature.

[0007] Finally, these thermal solar panels can be criticized for a lack of inertia and an all-or-nothing type of operation depending on the presence or absence of solar radiation.

[0008] In addition, such known thermal solar panels are usually of complex and expensive design due to the materials used: metallic structure, generally in aluminum, of the panel, transparent surface in tempered glass, network of heat transfer fluid pipes in copper, etc.

[0009] Furthermore, the size of these thermal solar panels is necessarily limited by the standard dimension of a tempered glass panel, but, more generally still, by the maximum weight that such a panel can have to be easily handled in order to allow its installation on a roof, in particular.

[0010] It is within the framework of a first inventive approach that an inertia solar thermal panel device was imagined, that is to say capable of absorbing and storing, in particular through a primary heat transfer fluid, calories resulting from solar radiation, but also of preventing, or at least reducing, thermal flows, in particular by convection and conduction between the primary heat transfer fluid and the external environment of this inertia solar thermal panel device.

[0011] As part of a second inventive approach, it has also been imagined to store the primary heat transfer fluid in storage units in such a solar panel device so as to contribute to the heating of a secondary heat transfer fluid passing through this inertia thermal solar panel device between an inlet pipe and an outlet pipe while passing through a heating enclosure containing the primary heat transfer fluid storage units.

[0012] Thus, the invention relates to an inertia solar thermal panel device comprising, essentially, a peripheral wall, a front wall and a rear wall delimiting an interior volume, at least the peripheral wall is made of a rigid insulating material, characterized in that: - the front wall is substantially made up, from the external side, towards the interior volume of this device: • at least two plates of translucent material, preferably transparent, spaced apart by a layer of gaseous fluid; • a plate absorbing light radiation spaced with a blade of gaseous fluid relative to the plate of translucent material on the internal side of the interior volume of this front wall; - in the interior volume, between a bottom defined by the rear wall and the absorbent plate of the front wall, at least one primary heat transfer fluid storage unit is arranged; - the inertia solar thermal panel device also comprises a circuit of a secondary heat transfer fluid extending between an inlet pipe and an outlet pipe passing through a heating enclosure delimited by the interior volume and the primary heat transfer fluid storage units.

[0013] Advantageously, the thermal solar panel device is in the shape of a rectangular parallelepiped.

[0014] According to another feature of the invention, the rear wall is made up, from the external side towards the internal volume of the device 1: - at least two plates of translucent material, preferably transparent, spaced apart by a layer of gaseous fluid; - a plate absorbing light radiation spaced with a blade of gaseous fluid relative to the plate of translucent material on the internal side of the interior volume of this rear wall.

[0015] Advantageously, the plates made of translucent material, preferably transparent, are made of a synthetic material of the polycarbonate, polyester, acrylic or other type.

[0016] According to the invention, the width of the gaseous fluid blades between the translucent, preferably transparent, plates is between 0.5 cm and 5 cm, preferably between 1 cm and 3 cm.

[0017] According to another particularity, the blade of gaseous fluid between the absorbent plate relative to the plate of translucent material on the internal side of the internal volume of the front wall or, as the case may be, the rear wall is between 0.5 cm and 5 cm, preferably between 1 cm and 3 cm.

[0018] Advantageously, the heat transfer fluid storage unit(s) are designed from recycled bottles made of synthetic material, for example Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET),

[0019] The heat transfer fluid storage unit(s) are at least in contact with the absorbent plate of the front wall and / or the rear wall.

[0020] According to yet another feature of the invention, this inertia solar thermal panel device comprises on the external side of its peripheral wall reciprocal fitting means of the male / female type designed to fit, as the case may be, two panel devices one on top of the other and / or one next to the other.

[0021] More particularly, such panel devices according to the invention are capable of constituting construction modules.

[0022] The invention will be better understood on reading the description which follows relating to exemplary embodiments illustrated in the attached drawings.

[0023] [Fig.l] [Fig.l] represents schematically and in perspective the inertia solar thermal panel device according to the invention;

[0024] [Fig.2] [Fig.2] represents schematically and in cross-section a thermal solar panel device with inertia according to a first embodiment;

[0025] [Fig.3] [Fig.3] represents schematically and in cross-section a thermal solar panel device with inertia according to a second embodiment;

[0026] [Fig.4] [Fig.4] is a schematic representation of a longitudinal section along IV-IV of [Fig.2] and 3;

[0027] [Fig.5] [Fig.5] is a schematic side view of a solar panel device thermal inertia according to the invention comprising peripheral interlocking means.

[0028] The present invention relates to an inertia solar thermal panel device 1 as visible in the various figures of the attached drawings.

[0029] This solar thermal panel device 1 essentially comprises a peripheral wall 2. If this solar thermal panel device 1 is represented in the figures of a rectangular parallelepiped, considerably facilitating its design. It is obvious that the present invention cannot be limited to such a shape.

[0030] Thus, this parallelepiped-shaped inertia solar thermal panel device 1 comprises a peripheral wall 2 comprising a top wall 3, a bottom wall 4, a first side wall 5 at a first lateral end and a second side wall 6 at a second lateral end. It also comprises a front wall 7 and a rear wall 8. All of these walls, namely the peripheral wall 2, the front wall 7 and the rear wall 8, delimit an interior volume 9 of this inertia solar thermal panel device 1.

[0031] According to the invention, at least the peripheral wall 2 is preferably made of a rigid insulating material. Advantageously, this peripheral wall 2 is made of extruded polystyrene commonly known as XPS.

[0032] According to a first embodiment visible in [Fig.2], the rear wall 8 of this thermal solar panel device 1 is also made of a rigid insulating material, in particular extruded polystyrene.

[0033] According to the invention, the front wall 7 is substantially constituted, from the external side 10, in the direction of the internal volume 9 of this device 1: • at least two plates of translucent material 11, 11a, 11b, 11c, 11d, preferably transparent, spaced apart by a blade 12, 12a, 12b, 12c of a gaseous fluid; • of an absorbent plate 13 of light radiation spaced by a blade 12d of a gaseous fluid relative to the plate of translucent material 1 Id on the internal side 14 to the internal volume 9 of this front wall 7.

[0034] The gaseous fluid between the plates of translucent material 11, 11a, 11b, 11c, 11d or between the absorbent plate 13 and the plate of translucent material 11d on the internal side 14 of the internal volume 9 of this front wall 7 is preferably air, although the invention is not limited thereto.

[0035] According to a feature of the invention, in the interior volume 9 of this device 1, between a bottom 15 defined by the rear wall 8 and the absorbent plate 13 of the front wall 7, there is arranged at least one, preferably a plurality of heat transfer fluid storage units 16. Advantageously, these are at least in contact with the absorbent plate 13.

[0036] The plates of translucent material 11, 11a, 11b, 11c, 11d, preferably transparent, are made of a synthetic material of the polycarbonate, polyester, acrylic, etc. type, the invention not being limited to this list of materials.

[0037] The width of the gaseous fluid blades 12, 12a, 12b, 12c, preferably air, between the translucent, preferably transparent, plates 11, 11a, 11b, 11c, may be between 0.5 cm and 5 cm, preferably between 1 cm and 3 cm. Advantageously, it is of the order of 2 cm. Note that this width of the gaseous fluid blades 12, 12a, 12b, 12c is not necessarily identical between all the plates 11, 11a, 11b, 11c, 11d.

[0038] Similarly, the gaseous fluid blade 12d between the absorbent plate 13 relative to the translucent material plate 11d on the internal side 14 to the internal volume 9 of this front wall 7 can be between 0.5 cm and 5 cm, preferably between 1 cm and 3 cm. Advantageously, it is of the order of 2 cm.

[0039] According to the invention, the plates of translucent material, preferably transparent, 11, 11a, 11b, 11c, 11d, as well as the absorbent plate 13 are inserted at the periphery in suitable grooves 17 which the peripheral wall 2 comprises on its side 18, oriented towards the interior volume 9 of the panel device 1.

[0040] In this case, in the embodiment of a device 1 of parallelepiped shape, these grooves are arranged on this side 18 at the level of the top wall 3, the bottom wall 4, the first side wall 5 and the second side wall 6.

[0041] Advantageously, the plates made of translucent material, preferably transparent, 11, 11a, 11b, 11c, 11d, as well as the absorbent plate 13 are glued in said grooves 17.

[0042] As regards the heat transfer fluid storage unit(s) 16, they may be designed in any type of material, preferably transparent or at least translucent. According to an advantageous embodiment, this or these heat transfer fluid storage unit(s) 16 are defined by recycled bottles made of synthetic material, for example Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET). The synthetic material bottles chosen for recycling as storage units 16 preferably have a certain number of peripheral ribs or grooves increasing their exchange surface.

[0043] The heat transfer fluid contained in such storage unit 16 may be water, preferably demineralized, possibly with the addition of an antifreeze product, such as than alcohol or other.

[0044] According to the invention, the inertia solar thermal panel device 1 also comprises a circuit 19 of a secondary heat transfer fluid extending between an inlet pipe 20 and an outlet pipe 21 passing through a heating enclosure 22 delimited by the interior volume 9 and the storage units 16 of primary heat transfer fluid. In short, this heating enclosure 22 extends around the storage unit(s) 16 within the limit of the internal volume 15 of the device 1

[0045] Thus, this secondary heat transfer fluid which can be, again, air, heats up on contact with the storage units 16 between the inlet 20 and the outlet 21 of the panel device 1. This heated air can then be used to heat a home for example.

[0046] The inlet pipe 20 and the outlet pipe 21 can open into the heating enclosure 22, respectively, at a first lateral end 27 and a second lateral end 28 so that the secondary heat transfer fluid can sweep the entirety of this heating enclosure 22, licking the periphery of the storage units 16.

[0047] However, according to a preferred embodiment, both the inlet pipe 20 and the outlet pipe 21 open into the heating enclosure 22 at the same lateral end 27, one of these pipes (the inlet pipe 20 in the embodiment shown) being extended internally into the heating enclosure 22 so that its opening end 29 is located at the opposite lateral end 28 of this heating enclosure 22, as illustrated in [Fig.4].

[0048] Note that the circulation of this secondary heat transfer fluid through the heating enclosure 22 can be by convection or forced, for example by means of a fan not shown in the drawings.

[0049] In the embodiment variant visible in [Fig. 3], the rear wall 8 of the panel device 1 according to the invention is designed in a similar manner to the front wall 7.

[0050] Thus, this rear wall 8 is substantially constituted, from the external side 10, in the direction of the internal volume 9 of this device 1: - at least two plates of translucent material 11, 11a, 11b, 11c, 11d, preferably transparent, spaced apart by a blade 12, 12a, 12b, 12c of a gaseous fluid which can be, again, air or any other type of gas; - of an absorbent plate 13 of the light radiation spaced by a blade 12d of a gaseous fluid relative to the plate of translucent material 1 Id of the internal side 14 to the internal volume 9 of this rear wall 8.

[0051] Advantageously, the heat transfer fluid storage unit(s) 16 are at least in contact with this absorbent plate 13 of the rear wall 8.

[0052] According to yet another feature of the invention, this solar panel device thermal inertia 1 comprises on the external side 23 of the top wall 3 and the bottom wall 4 and / or the first side wall 5 and the second side wall 6 reciprocal interlocking means 24 of male / female type designed to interlock, as the case may be, two panel devices 1 one on top of the other and / or one next to the other. Such reciprocal interlocking means may take the form of a groove 25 and tongue 26.

[0053] Thus, on the external side 23 of the top wall 3 of a device I, one or more tongues may be provided, capable of engaging by fitting into one or more grooves arranged appropriately on the external side 23 of the bottom wall 4 of the superimposed device 1. It is also possible to imagine a combination of tongue and groove on the external side 23 of the top wall 3 of a device 1 defined capable of cooperating with a suitable combination of groove and tongue provided on the external side 23 of the bottom wall 4 of the superimposed device 1.

[0054] Similarly, on the external side 23 of the first side wall 5 of a device 1 one or more tongues may be provided, capable of engaging by fitting into one or more grooves arranged appropriately on the external side 23 of the second side wall 6 of the juxtaposed device 1. It is also possible to imagine a combination of tongue and groove on the external side 23 of the first side wall 5 of a device 1 defined capable of cooperating with a suitable combination of groove and tongue provided on the external side 23 of the second side wall 6 of the juxtaposed device 1.

[0055] Thus, such panel devices according to the invention are capable of constituting construction modules.

Claims

Claims

1. Inertia solar thermal panel device 1 comprising, essentially, a peripheral wall 2, a front wall 7 and a rear wall 8 delimiting an interior volume 9, at least the peripheral wall 2 is made of a rigid insulating material, characterized in that: - the front wall 7 is substantially made, from the external side 10 towards the interior volume 9 of this device 1 • of at least two plates of translucent material 11, 11a, 11b, 11c, 11d, preferably transparent, spaced apart by a blade 12, 12a, 12b, 12c of a gaseous fluid; • of an absorbent plate 13 of light radiation spaced apart by a blade 12d of a gaseous fluid relative to the plate of translucent material 11d from the internal side 14 to the interior volume 9 of this front wall 7;- in the interior volume 9, between a bottom 15 defined by the rear wall 8 and the absorbent plate 13 of the front wall 7, is arranged at least one storage unit 16 of primary heat transfer fluid; - the inertia solar thermal panel device 1 also comprises a circuit 19 of a secondary heat transfer fluid extending between an inlet pipe 20 and an outlet pipe 21 passing through a heating enclosure 22 delimited by the interior volume 9 and the storage units 16 of primary heat transfer fluid.;

2. Thermal solar panel device 1 according to claim 1, characterized in that it is in the shape of a rectangular parallelepiped whose peripheral wall 2 comprises a top wall 3, a bottom wall 4, a first side wall 5 at a first lateral end and a second side wall 6 at a second lateral end.

3. A solar thermal panel device 1 according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the peripheral wall 2 and the rear wall 8 are made of a rigid insulating material, in particular extruded polystyrene.

4. Thermal solar panel device 1 according to claims 1 or 2, characterized in that the rear wall 8 is constituted, from the external side 10 in the direction of the internal volume 9 of the device 1: - of at least two plates of translucent material 11, 11a, 11b, 11c, 11d preferably transparent, spaced apart by a blade 12, 12a, 12b, 12c of a gaseous fluid; - of an absorbent plate 13 of the light radiations spaced apart by a blade 12d of a gaseous fluid with respect to the plate of translucent material 11d from the internal side 14 to the internal volume 9 of this rear wall 8.

5. Thermal solar panel device 1 according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the plates of translucent material 11, 11a, 11b, 11c, 11d, preferably transparent, are made of a synthetic material of the polycarbonate, polyester, acrylic or other type.

6. Thermal solar panel device 1 according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the width of the gaseous fluid blades 12, 12a, 12b, 12c between the translucent, preferably transparent plates 11, 11a, 11b, is between 0.5 cm and 5 cm, preferably between 1 cm and 3 cm.

7. Thermal solar panel device 1 according to claim 6, characterized in that the width of the gaseous fluid blades 12, 12a, 12b, 12c between the translucent, preferably transparent plates 11, 11a, 11b, is of the order of 2cm.

8. Thermal solar panel device 1 according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the gaseous fluid blade 12d between the absorbent plate 13 relative to the plate of translucent, preferably transparent material 1 Id from the internal side 14 to the internal volume 9 of the front wall 7 is between 0.5 cm and 5 cm, preferably between 1 cm and 3 cm.

9. Thermal solar panel device 1 according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the plates of translucent, preferably transparent, material, 11, 11a, 11b, 11c, 1 Id, and the absorbent plate 13 are inserted into suitable grooves 17 which the peripheral wall 2 has on its side 18 oriented towards the interior volume 9 of the panel device 1.

10. Thermal solar panel device 1 according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the heat transfer fluid storage units 16 are designed by recycled bottles made of synthetic material.

11. Thermal solar panel device 1 according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the heat transfer fluid storage unit(s) 16 are at least in contact with the absorbent plate 13.

12. Thermal solar panel device 1 according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that it comprises on the external side 23 of the top wall 3 and the bottom wall 4 and / or the first side wall 5 and the second side wall 6 reciprocal fitting means 24 of the male / female type designed to fit, as the case may be, two superimposed and / or juxtaposed panel devices 1.

13. Use of panel devices according to any one of the preceding claims as a building module.

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