Solar Power & Energy

Commercial Solar Hot Water Systems - How Commercial Plumbers Are Leading the Way

What exactly is commercial solar hot water and why should you consider this application for your business.

Solar hot water has been around for many years and has been a part of a Plumbers scope of work, but in the past, many Commercial Plumbing Contractors have not heavily pursued this area as the demand was low. Today, this is changing and we are now finding more and more licensed plumbing contractors being asked to contribute their knowledge and expertise in this area. Whether it is a system for a new commercial project/facility or an eco-friendly addition, commercial plumbers are being asked to design/build systems for facilities from simple neighborhood laundry mats, public swimming pools to some of the largest name hotels, resorts and institutions. Small businesses to corporate businesses are continually looking for ways to cut costs in their …

Solar heating by convection is a natural process which involves trapping air and letting it warm up before releasing it back into a given space.

Convection heating is often used as a solar heating source because the two naturally go hand in hand. By trapping air into a confined space which has sunlight hitting it, the trapped air is heated up naturally by the solar power of the sun. This same type of natural heat transfer is also used for solar water heating too.

Now you may or may not already know that hot air rises, and this is a key component to solar heating with convection. Inside your home, the coldest air is closest to the floor and the warmest is up high along the ceiling. As the warm air at the top of the room cools it drops lower, and as the cooler air is warmed up, it rises.

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Solar water heating works simply by allowing the sun to warm up your water naturally. Now that sounds simple and it actually is, but there are many different ways to create homemade solar water heating systems yourself, and you can buy commercial solar hot water systems too.

The simplest way to get hot water from the sun is to put it in a glass jar and sit that jar in the sun. Have you ever heard of “sun tea”? Sun tea is a popular way to make iced tea in the hot desert areas of the United States. Instead of boiling water on a stove, you put water in a glass tea jar. Then add your tea bags and sit the jar in the sun for a short while. Depending on what time of year it is, you’ll find the tea in that jar is hot enough to scald you in …