DR. JAMES WILLIAM WALKER, DC
Chiropractic at Commonwealth Dr, Charlottesville, VA
License number
Virginia 000115
Category
Chiropractic
Type
Chiropractor
Address
Address
1911 Commonwealth Dr, Charlottesville, VA 22901
Phone
(434) 295-4367
(434) 971-9733 (Fax)
(434) 971-9733 (Fax)
Professional information
Fluid Sheet Solar Collector
US Patent:
4033325, Jul 5, 1977
Filed:
May 11, 1976
Appl. No.:
5/685258
Inventors:
James Edwin Walker - Charlottesville VA
International Classification:
F24J 302
US Classification:
126271
Abstract:
This fluid sheet solar collector is devised as an assembly to produce a sealed unit which contains an internal collector fluid circulating through a closed loop to pass in a thin sheet over a solar energy absorber surface and to pass in good thermal contact through a self contained heat exchanger to effect a net solar energy derived heat transfer to external devices. The internal collector fluid flows upward in a thin sheet contained between a semi-rigid transparent cover and a solar absorber surface wherein the fluid is heated; flows downward through a heat exchanger wherein the heat is transferred; the net effect is to maintain a thermo-kinetic circulation of the fluid with neither fluid conduits nor high thermal conductivity materials required in the heating portion of the assembly.