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BS 5918 - SOLAR HEATING SYSTEMS FOR DOMESTIC HOT WATER - CODE OF PRACTICE
Hardcopy , PDF
31-01-2015
English
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Foreword
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 General recommendations
5 Site inspections and technical pre-installation surveys
6 Provision of customer information
7 Details of key components
8 Installation
9 Commissioning and documentation
10 Maintenance
11 Performance predictions
Annex A (informative) - Example primary system layouts
Annex B (informative) - Calculation of loads
Annex C (normative) - Bacterial growth, and safety in
DHW systems
Annex D (informative) - Worked example - Expansion
vessel sizing
Annex E (informative) - Troubleshooting
Annex F (informative) - Characteristics of an average UK
DHW usage profile
Annex G (informative) - Nominal amounts of DHW supplied
by point-of-use appliances that are usually
not available for solar pre-heating
Annex H (informative) - Example sizing of collector active
area
Annex I (informative) - Manual methods for calculating
loss of irradiation due to shading obstacles
Bibliography
BS 5918.
| Committee |
RHE/25
|
| DocumentType |
Draft
|
| Pages |
65
|
| PublisherName |
British Standards Institution
|
| Status |
Superseded
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