Installation of Solar Pool Heating From £4,800.00
Solar Swimming Pool heating |
| The site for the new solar heated swimming pool in Cambridge. This pool already had an older style solar heating which consisted of a large number of black hose pipes laid out in parallel on the roof of the pool house which were not heating the pool to the customer’s requirements |
 Proposed site for Solar Heated Swimming Pool |
| The finished install showing 60 x 58mm evacuated solar tubes on the top of the pool house. |
 completed solar collector array |
| 60 58mm by 1800 mm evacuated tube array mounted on the pool house using the standard stainless steel flat roof frames and our designed penetration manifolds. Here we can see the two flow and return pipes lagged in armaflex ht for insulation and the existing oil boiler flu. The picture on the right shows the flow and return pipes going down through our custom made roof penetration manifold designed to make the solar swimming pool installation faster and more robust. |
 back of solar collector  Flow and return pipes on roof |
| Here you can see the heat exchanger and flow switch installed in conjunction with our unique pumping station and original ‘AS’ manifold giving all the advantages of our swift and simple install that is also very reliable. You should mount the heat exchanger and flow switch in the return line to the boiler so that the heat energy provided by the solar water heating system will turn the boiler off if it is already running and therefore interact with the thermostat.
Always ensure that the heat exchanger is not mounted at the highest point in the pipe work in order to prevent air locks occurring in the heat exchanger. The picture at the bottom shows the flow and return pipes coming down through our custom made roof penetration manifold. |
 pumping station and expansion vessel  flow and return piping for solar pool heating  flow and return piping through roof |
| Here we have the bowman heat exchanger modified for solar applications by the addition of a sensor pocket for the control system. This is an indirect heating system which gives you a closed circuit for higher performance and reliability. If you look inside the unit you can see tubes system for efficient fluid to fluid heat transfer. |
 bowman heat exchanger  inside bowman heat exchanger  sensor on heat exchanger |
| We use a magnetically operated flow switch to interrupt the power supply to the solar pumping case of no pool water being circulated giving a failsafe system, preventing overheating damage to the plastic pipe work. This contains a magnetic flap in the flow which op a simple micro switch through the body of the flow switch which prevents any pool water from damaging the switch. |
 flap inside flow switch  flow switch |
| The existing layout shows the main circulation pump (in black) and filtration system (in blue) there are two pipes coming in from the pool on the left hand side of this picture on is for the pool water and the pipe on top for a skimmer (so you can hoover the surface of the pool). This pipes join and then lead to the pump and in turn to the large filtration unit and off through the wall to the existing oil boiler the pipe then comes back through the wall and down through the floor to supply hot water back into the pool
The picture on the right shows the two vertical plastic pipes for the existing solar swimming pool heating system largely consisting of a lot of black hose pipes on the roof. |
 existing pump and filter  original pipework |
March 13th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
skimmer pool…
Real good brillant ideas, even if I am a civil engineer I say there is nothing like learning whatever you age is….
April 21st, 2009 at 10:37 pm
a very interesting read indeed
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