Solar water heating

It is a fact well proven that heated water is one of the most used thing in a house. Just think at your bathroom and kitchen to understand that water heaters are one of the biggest users of energy in a household. Water heating is the main reason people decide to use solar energy.

The solar water heaters available today is as equally effective as water heaters powered by the conventional power sources, such as gas or electricity. A solar water heating system can heat your home’s water to temperatures of up as much as 140° F. (103)

If you need more motivation to use solar water heating from your home, you should know that a solar hot water panel installed properly should work well for 15 to 20 years. And, very important, a solar water heater requires far less maintenance than its more conventional counterparts.

Among most particularly factors that can influence how much hot water a solar water heater can provide, we can consider:

Whichever type of solar water heating system you want to use, most notably components are the collector and the storage tank

The most common type of collector in use is a the flat plate” solar hot water panel. This type of collector is a weatherproof, insulated box most often made of aluminum that holds, beneath one or more transparent covers, an absorber dark plate. When sun energy hits into the box, its heat passes through the transparent cover, or covers, and is soaked up by the dark plate. Then the collected heat is transferred through the heat-transferring fluids that flow through or past it.

The storage tanks are not a required component of solar water heater systems, but if it is missing you can only use the solar power available in that given moment. Having a storage tank the solar water heating is more useful, as the solar water heater preheats the water and the tank maintains its temperature until the hot water is needed. An usual storage tank may hold enough heated water to provide for a whole day’s supply.