EuroSun2008-5
European standards for solar thermal products in general
In 2000 and 2001 the first edition of the European standards for solar thermal systems and components was issued, and started to replace all related national standards /1/. The three standard series consisted of the following seven parts listed in Table 1.
Table 1: Titles of European solar thermal standards as published in 2000 and 2001
Number
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Title “Thermal solar systems and components-...”
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EN 12975-1:2000
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Collectors - Part 1 - General requirements
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EN 12975-2:2000
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Collectors - Part 2 - Test methods
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EN 12976-1:2000
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Factory Made Systems - Part 1 - General requirements
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EN 12976-2:2000
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Factory Made Systems - Part 2 - Test methods
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ENV 12977-1:2001
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Custom Built Systems - Part 1 - General requirements
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ENV 12977-2:2001
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Custom Built Systems - Part 2 - Test methods
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ENV 12977-3:2001
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Custom Built Systems - Part 3 - Performance characterisation of stores for solar heating systems.
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The whole automation system is mainly divided into two parts: one part is the hardware equipments consisted of all kinds of devices used in the testing system; the other part …
Following the new regulations, a three bedrooms autonomous zone must have a minimal collector area of 4 m2 independently of the climate zone were is located. From the simulations results …
The comparison of experimental and calculated instantaneous power results, obtained after the different approaches presented in the previous section, is based on instantaneous efficiency measurements for a CPC collector (C …