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InSpire Solar Wall

Transpired solar collector

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The solar InSpire wall panel, a transpired solar collector, is mounted a few inches from the building’s outer wall. The precision perforations in the wall panels allow outside air to travel through the face of the panel. Solar heated air at the surface of the panel is drawn through the perforations where it rises between the two walls and enters the building’s ventilation system.

The InSpire wall panel also helps in the summer by preventing normal solar radiation from striking the building’s main wall. Hot air is thermally siphoned up the wall and vented through holes at the top of the system, leaving the main wall cooler. In the summer, bypass louvers allow cool, fresh night air to be drawn into the building creating a productive work environment.

 

Solar Wall 3D

The InSpire solar wall on the south side of a building, has been measured to show a maximum differential of ambient temperature-to-delivered temperature from the wall of about 55 degrees, i.e. 20 degrees outside with 75-degree air coming into the ductwork. This image shows how the wall is mounted a few inches from the building’s outer wall; the precision perforations in the wall panels allow outside air to travel through the face of the panel. Solar-heated air at the surface of the panel is drawn through the perforations where it rises between the two walls and enters the building’s ventilation system. ©2011 Robin Rogers