In the US alone there are an estimated two hundred thousand installed commercial solar water heating systems that bear eloquent testimony to the practicality and feasibility of using commercial solar water heating. What’s more, these systems use simple basic technology in which the light from the sun strikes as well as heats a surface that is able to absorb sunlight and this surface forms part of the solar collector. Next, in most commercial solar water heating systems, water or heat-transfer fluids are used and which will flow through tubes that are already attached to the absorber and in this manner the water/heat-transfer fluid becomes hot.
Once the water/heat-transfer fluid temperature rises it is then stored in a separate pre-heated tank or the water/heat-transfer fluid can also be stored in conventional water heater tanks till such time as the need for hot water arises.
Just as the case with residential solar water heating systems, so too in the case of commercial solar water heating systems; there is need to use a backup system that will kick in when overhead conditions turn cloudy thereby preventing sunlight from striking the absorber.
There are different types of commercial solar water heating systems that you can choose from including the ones that use Glazed flat-plate collector systems; evacuate-tube solar collector systems and the concentrating collectors system.
The main benefit of using commercial solar water heating systems is that such systems effectively help in reducing energy requirements and in addition they help to almost eliminate any adverse impact to the already fragile world environment. Of course, the prime reason to install a commercial solar water heating system is that running it will be a lot cheaper – in fact, you can save up to as much as eighty percent of the costs involved in using conventional water heating systems.
Restaurants, elderly homes, office buildings, agriculture and husbandry, hospitals and medical clinics, correctional facilities, laundries and dry cleaners and apartments and condominiums are bust some of the better examples of where commercial solar water heating systems can be installed and put to good use.
In a similar vein, solar pool heating systems also ensure that you are able to save considerably on the costs of heating and in addition there is dramatic fall in greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, pool heating lends it very well to solar heating and in fact the systems that have been developed to meet such requirements too are very simple and most affordable as well.
