{"id":31290,"key":"Green_Building/Solar_Hot_Water_Installation_and_Design_Principles","title":"Green Building/Solar Hot Water Installation and Design Principles","latest":{"id":1273831,"timestamp":"2026-09-16T15:08:29Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"{{Green Building navigation}}\n\n[[File:Solarboiler.jpg|thumb]]\n\n== Objectives ==\n\nBy the end of the {{SUBPAGENAME}} module, students will understand:\n\n# How to do a solar site assessment\n# How a solar hot water system operates\n# How to describe and use some of the tools of the trade\n# How to solder copper fitting and plumbing components\n\n== Goals ==\n\nThe following are some of the main goals for the {{SUBPAGENAME}} module.\n\n=== Concepts ===\n\nBy the end of the {{SUBPAGENAME}} module, students will understand the following concepts (among others):\n\n* Drain back\n* Heat transfer in solar thermal systems\n* Closed versus open loops\n\n=== Vocabulary and units ===\n\nBy the end of the {{SUBPAGENAME}} module, students will be able to confidently use the following vocabulary and/or units (among others):\n\n* Closed loop, Closed loop glycol, Open loop, Thermosiphon, passive, active, direct, indirect\n* BTU/(panel*day), Therms consumed, feet of head\n\n=== Calculations ===\n\nBy the end of the {{SUBPAGENAME}} module, students will be able to do the following calculations (among others):\n\n* BTU (needed)\n\n=== How to ===\n\nBy the end of the {{SUBPAGENAME}} module, students will be comfortable doing the following (among others):\n\n* Size a system\n* Solder\n* Wire pump and control\n* Mount and check sensors\n* Mount collectors on roof\n* Use a solar path finder and do solar site assessment\n\n== Field trips ==\n\nBy the end of the {{SUBPAGENAME}} module, students will be have gone on the following field trips (possibly among others):\n\n* BCAT\n* Residential Solar hot water\n* Solar Trainer – CR Main Campus\n\n{{Solar footer}}\n\n{{Page data\n| part-of = Northern California Green Building Pre-Apprenticeship Program\n| keywords = solar hot water, solar energy, thermal energy\n| location = Humboldt County, California\n| coordinates = 40° 35' 59.07\" N, 123° 53' 59.18\" W\n}}\n\n[[Category:Solar hot water]]\n[[Category:Solar energy]]"}