Solar Solutions. Bristol Stickney’s “Solar Solutions” articles appear monthly in Plumbing Engineer and Plumbing and Hydronics Contractor magazines. Plumbing Engineer is the Official Publication of ASPE (American Society of Plumbing Engineers).
May 2016: The ‘New Standard’ for solar, hydronic combisystems
April 2016: Solar collector placement
March 2016: Best Ideas In Solar Combisystems
February 2016: Top 10 reasons for choosing solar heat
January 2016: Solar heat efficiency
December 2015: Avoidable errors with sensors
November 2015: Solar heat collector variations Part 2
October 2015: Solar heat collector variations Part 1
September 2015: Hydronic retrofit in Beaver, Alaska
August 2015: Solar Hydronic Design; Best practices, do’s and don’ts
July 2015: Case Studies: Primary loop installations
June 2015: ECM high-performance hydronic circulators
May 2015: page 56. LosAlamos Eco Station – 2014 Data
April 2015: page 50. Seven Principles of Good Solar Hydronic Design
March 2015: page 54. Solar, Hydronics versus Carbon Emissions
February 2015: Solar Hydronic Fluid and Pressures
January 2015 page 52: Table of Contents for the Past Six Years
December 2014 page 42: Top Ten Reasons for Choosing Solar Heat
November 2014 page 52: Metal, Plastic and Temperature Limits
October 2014 page 42: Solar Heat Collectors: Area versus Aperture
September 2014 page 42: The Small ‘District Heating’ Combisystem
August 2014 page 50: Case Study: Combisystem for a Caribbean Island Hotel
July 2014 page 56: Closed-Loop Solar Glycol: The Art of Fill and Purge
June 2014 page 52: The “New Standard” for Solar/Hydronic Combisystem
May 2014 page 46: Los Alamos Eco Station – Energy Data 2013
April 2014 page 36: Case Study: New Fish-Farm Combisystem in Colorado
March 2014 page 50: Case Study: Ground-source Heat Pump in Alaska
February 2014 page 42: Re-thinking Heat Storage in Water Tanks
January 2014 page 54: Case Study: Solar-only Mode
December 2013 page 36: Startup and Commissioning
November 2013 page 60: LEED Ratings and Solar Heating Systems
October 2013 page 36: Getting the Air Out
September 2013 page 42: Case Study: Primary Loop “Temperature Order”
August 2013 page 42: Six Principles of Good Solar Hydronic Design: Waste Heat Recovery
July 2013 page 58: Temperature versus Energy Output
June 2013 page 36
SLASH-D: Software for Solar Heating Design
May 2013 page 40
Expansion Tanks in Combisystems
April 2013 page 38
Case Study: The Birth of a Solar Home
March 2013 page 40
Energy Measurement: The “Primary Loop” Advantage
February 2013 page 34
Solar Heat Storage Tanks: The 2P3T Piping Configuration
January 2013 page 48
The Cost of DHW Recirculation
December 2012 page 38
Award-winning Solar Combisystem in Los Alamos
November 2012 page 42
Glycol versus Drainback; A Comparison
October 2012 page 54
Best Ideas from the Past 50 Episodes
September 2012 page 44
Solar Combi with “Radiant” Swimming Pool
August 2012 page 46
Case Study: Solar Combi 101-Summer Data Snapshot
July 2012 page 50
Six Things You Should Know About NSRC Cooling
June 2012 page 38
Piping the Solar Collectors with Flexible Tubing
May 2012 page 44
Making Sense of Thermistor Sensors
April 2012 page 40
Diminishing Returns from Multiple Collectors
March 2012 page 40
Retrofit Example: Overheat-cooling Thermosyphon Loop
February 2012 page 32
Flagship Solar Combisystem Controller – SLIC
January 2012 page 50
Example Project: Combi 101 Retrofit in Canoncito, NM
December 2011 page 26
Freeze Danger from the Thermosyphon Reverse Flow
November 2011 page 24
The Solar Combi 101 Mini for the Cabin or Guesthouse
October 2011 page 32
Photovoltaic Solar Circulator Pumps
September 2011 page 30
In-tank Heat Exchangers
August 2011 page 28
Propylene Glycol: Solar Heat Transfer Fluid
July 2011 page 40
Solar Hot Water Analysis with SAM (System Advisor Model)
June 2011 page 30
New Life for Old Flat Plate Collectors
May 2011 page 30
Solar Combi Connections with Hydraulic Separators
April 2011 page 26
Overheat-cooling with Thermosyphon Loop
March 2011 page 22
Case Study: A Solar Combisystem Home Retrofit
February 2011 page 22
Alternative Backup Heat Sources
January 2011 page 37
Stranded Heat Recovery Using Software Controls
December 2010 page 36
The Solar Combisystem Heat Exchanger
November 2010 page 24
Using Two-stage Thermostats for Direct Solar Floor Heat
October 2010 page 28
Solar Collector Placement: The Art of Concealment
September 2010 page 28
Instant Hot Water Recirculation: Innocuous Energy Thief
August 2010 page 24
Solar Economics: Look at Cash Flow, not Payback
July 2010 page 36
Flat plate collectors — heating vs. cooling by climate
June 2010
Solar heating design — computer software
May 2010
Bristol’s Six Principles for Good Solar Hydronic Design
Solar Combi-system — Case Study in Los Alamos, N.M.
April 2010
Solar thermal collector tilt
March 2010
Beyond Solar Combi 101
February 2010
Warm-floor solar heating for concrete pools
January 2010
OG-300 solar water heater system comparisons
Review of SRCC & OG-300
December 2009
Pump stations for solar hot water systems
The future is modular
November 2009
Bristol’s six principles of good solar hydronic design
Overheat dissipation control: A brief case study
October 2009
Bristol’s six principles of good solar hydronic design
Thermal mass for space heating — water vs. concrete
September 2009
Bristol’s six principles of good solar hydronic design
Basic Combi-System Controls
July 2009
Bristol’s six principles of good solar hydronic design
10 Years of Solar Hydronic Evolution
June 2009
Bristol’s six principles of good solar hydronic design
Solar overheat protection
May 2009
Bristol’s six principles of good solar hydronic design
Solar hot water systems and the SRCC
April 2009
Bristol’s six principles of good solar hydronic design
Collector efficiency and the SRCC
March 2009
Bristol’s six principles of good solar hydronic design
Part 9: The primary check-loop flow center
February 2009
Bristol’s six principles of good solar hydronic design
Part 8: Solar heat control with two-stage thermostats
January 2009
Bristol’s six principles of good solar hydronic design
Part 7: Cooling with Flat-Plate Solar Panels
December 2008
Bristol’s six principles of good solar hydronic design
Part 6: Collector Efficiency and the SRCC Ratings
November 2008
Bristol’s six principles of good solar hydronic design
Part 5: The evolution of “direct” active solar heating
Additional articles written by or about SolarLogic:
Eco Station Project Receives National Recognition
by Neal Lorenzi
Radiant Living, Fall 2013 Feature Article
The True Cost and Benefit of Solar Heating
by Fred Milder, PhD, CEO, SolarLogic
Plumbing Engineer, May 2013 Feature Article
Innovations and Advances in Solar Thermal Systems
by Boaz Soiffer, President, SolarLogic, and Bristol Stickney
Home Power Magazine, April/May 2012
ASHRAE articles by Bristol Stickney on primary/secondary plumbing and Fred Milder, PhD on solar heating controls.
ASHRAE Journal, February 2012
Case Study – Solar Home Heating Retrofit
by Boaz Soiffer, President, SolarLogic, and Bristol Stickney
Home Power Magazine, August/September 2011
Solar Heating
by Boaz Soiffer, President, SolarLogic, and Bristol Stickney
Solar Pro Magazine, April/May 2010
