ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that assistance is oriented specifically toward commercially available systems. Since pool heating is a low-temperature application, most commercially available systems are made of plastics. It discusses many factors affecting the design, sizing, and performance of swimming pool heating panels. Federal government programs and funds have been directed toward promoting the use of solar energy for heating and cooling of buildings and providing domestic hot water. Since pool heating is a low-temperature application, most commercially available systems are made of plastics. Pool heating is usually characterized by large flow rates and by collector exit water temperatures only a few degrees above ambient temperatures. Surprisingly, however, industry activity in terms of the manufacture and sale of solar collectors has been largely in swimming pool heating. The goal of any performance analysis of swimming pool solar heating is an estimate of the pool's bulk temperature.
