Project Report PPR302 Performance of an interseasonal heat transfer facility for collection, storage, and re-use of solar heat from the road surface

Publication Year

2007

Document Status

Current

Abstract

Describes the design, construction, operation and performance of the instrumented test facility to recover heat from the road surface. Relates monitoring over a two year period, allowing for full seasonal assessments of the recovery of solar heat from the road surface, its re-use for winter maintenance of the road surface, and protocols simulating the winter heating and summer cooling of a nearby building. Includes numerical modelling and whole life costing for winter maintenance.

Author

Carder, D. R. et al.

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