Roof integrated, coloured stainless steel unglazed solar air collectors for space heating and water heating in housing

该项目调查了一个新的，创新的，无玻璃的太阳能空气收集器的市场，以集成到新的和现有的住房屋顶，提供空间加热和热水。该创新有望提供一种具有成本效益和建筑吸引力的方法，为新的和现有的住房实现显著的可再生能源贡献，其成本和效益将与现有和新兴的低碳能源技术（如传统的太阳能热水系统，太阳能光伏，热泵，生物质，微型热电联产和燃料电池。这一新系统将为政府要求从2016年起建造零碳住宅的住房开发商和希望改善其住宅能源性能的房主提供具有成本效益和可行的解决方案。

The project investigates the market for a new, innovative, unglazed solar air collector forintegration into the roofs of new and existing housing to provide space heating and waterheating. The innovation promises to provide a cost effective and architecturally attractivemethod of achieving a significant renewable energy contribution for new and existinghousing, the costs and benefits of which will compare extremely favourably with establishedand emerging low carbon energy technologies such as conventional solar water heatingsystems, solar PV, heat pumps, biomass, micro-CHP and fuel cells.This new system will provide a cost effective and practicable solution to housing developerswho are required by Government to build zero carbon homes from 2016 and to house ownerswishing to improve the energy performance of their dwellings.