DR050418 UK Duncan Rowe farmhouse central heating report 18 April 2005
Microsolar M80VTHE on farmhouse being used for central heating Cornwall England
Report
on the central heating of a large farmhouse at Higher Newton, Braddock
Lostwithiel, Cornwall, United Kingdom PL22 ORJ (Latitude 50.5 deg
N)
with a Microsolar M80VTHE 360 litres Coaxial Multivalve Thermosyphon Solar
Water Heater.
Outside air temperature 7 deg C. Period of test April 2005.
WORLD’S
MOST EFFICIENT SOLAR HEATER INSTALLED IN U K FARMHOUSE – 90% SAVINGS
ON CENTRAL HEATING COSTS
Consumers
in the United Kingdom can now enjoy substantial savings on their electricity
bills on central heating and hot water with a new, affordable, state of
the art Microsolar Coaxial Multivalve solar water heater. What first germinated
in 1980 as a nascent idea for part of a Honours thesis by a Malaysian architecture
student at Edinburgh University has, after many years of research and testing,
in 2005 culminated in the state of the art Coaxial Multivalve Thermosyphon
Vacuum Tubes Microsolar Water Heater, the most efficient thermosyphon solar
heater in the world today, now on sale in the UK.
Central
Heating
In
a large farmhouse at Lostwithiel, Cornwall, England, heating oil savings
of 90% were reported when the Microsolar heating system was used compared
with the existing heating oil powered central heating system. The electric
immersion heater in the Microsolar was not used at all. Even if the immersion
heater was to be used partly in the winter the client Mr. Rowe estimates
that the heating oil savings during the winter will be 50% leading to
an overall yearly savings of 70% to 75%.
The
client is very happy with the excellent results and the payback period
in the region of 1 to 11/2 years. In his opinion
the Microsolar can guarantee hot water at a fraction of the cost of any
other water heating system
including any other solar panel in the market, even under the cold damp,
cloudy conditions prevalent in England.
Microsolar
Water Heater M80VTHE 360 litres being used for central heating on a large
farmhouse in Lostwithiel, Cornwall, England. It is saving 90% of oil
central heating costs.
Microsolar
Water Heater M80VTHE 360 litres being used for central heating on a large
farmhouse in Lostwithiel, Cornwall, England. It is saving 90% of oil
central heating costs.
Report
on the solar water heating of a farmhouse at Higher Newton, Braddock
Lostwithiel, Cornwall, United Kingdom PL22 ORJ. (Latitude 50.5 deg
N)
With
a Microsolar M60VTHE 264 litres Coaxial Multivalve Thermosyphon Solar
Water Heater.
Outside air temperature 7 deg C. Period of test April 2005. Oil savings
80%
Domestic Hot Water
On another farmhouse in Cornwall England, 80% of oil savings were reported
when the Microsolar was used for domestic water heating for the showers and
kitchen. The Microsolar was connected into the existing indoor 3 kw immersion
heater tank. The immersion tank temperature was 70 C but it only held 25 gallons
but when it was connected to the Microsolar the water temperature stayed hot
for 60 to 70 gals. When the water in the immersion tank was drained off it
took an hour to reheat with electricity (high cost with the existing 3kw immersion
heater) and then only 20 to 25 gals are reheated. But when the Microsolar M60VTHE
was connected to the indoor 3 kw immersion tank the water was a lot hotter
(no mixing of cold incoming with hot water at the top of the immersion tank)
as the water from the Microsolar was already hot. If on an overcast day, the
water in the Microsolar was 40 C and the water in the immersion tank had to
be 70 C, it only took approx 10 mins of 3 kw electric heater to bring the temperature
up to 70 C thus saving 80% of power to heat water and that is in April with
an outside temperature of 7 C. As the weather warms up for summer the client
estimates that savings will be nearer 90% to 100% and in the winter the savings
should be 50%, so overall the yearly savings on domestic hot water electricity
bills should be 75% to 80%.
As the
other customers have mentioned, the British people would want a guaranteed
hot water supply in the winter and now they have it, and it is very
inexpensive too.
How
does the Microsolar work so efficiently in overcast damp conditions when
other solar panels cannot function? The secret is in the patented coaxial
multivalve connections between the solar collector tubes and the hot
water storage tank. These Coaxial Multivalves overcome the bottlenecks
and restrictions inherent in all other forms of thermosyphon solar heaters.
The Microsolar eliminates all horizontal flow in the thermosyphon circuit
by doing away with the horizontal manifold commonly found at the top
of the conventional single valve thermosyphon solar water heater collector
panels. Thermosyphon or convection flow needs a gradient to operate,
and horizontal pipes stagnate or kill off the thermosyphon flow.
Microsolar
Solar Water Heaters (EU Patent 0852689B1, Teoh) are the only (legal)
Coaxial Multivalve Thermosyphon Solar Water Heaters in the world and
they are the world’s highest temperature thermosyphon solar water
heaters. They can operate in Negative 32 C conditions without freezing,
without any chemicals, using only tap water, and without any form of
supplemental backup heating. In sunny conditions the maximum water temperatures
attained (in Spain, for example) for 270litres is 12 C to 100 C (boiling
point) in six hours of sunshine, these extremes of performance are unmatched
by any other thermosyphon solar water heater today, even by other (non
coaxial) vacuum glass tube solar heaters.
Microsolar
is currently sold in Europe, USA, Australia and New Zealand, and South
East Asia as well as in other countries. For more information contact
Microsolar at tel (603) 56373735, (603) 56334398, fax (603) 56334398,
email microsolar@hotmail.com,
website www.microsolarsystem.com
Footnotes
on Microsolar’s background in the UK:
The
inventor Mr Siang T. Teoh of Malaysia graduated First Class Honours
in Architecture from the University of Edinburgh in 1980 and was awarded
the prestigious Rowan Anderson Prize as top architectural student in
Scotland in 1980 by the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland
for his work in solar architecture. He was awarded one of four worldwide
recipients of Time Magazine’s Heroes of the Planet - Design in
1999 for the design of the Coaxial Multivalve Thermosyphon Microsolar
Water Heater. And now, after 25 years, the Coaxial Multivalve Solar
Heater has come back to the United Kingdom where it all started.
