Welcome to solar hot water heating system (SHWS) performance mapping project at the University of Queensland School of Civil Engineering, St Lucia QLD 4072.

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This webpage presents technical reports provided to the Commonwealth of Australia by the University of Queensland in consortium with National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Limited, New Zealand

by Eric Laurentius Peterson ¹ *

¹ School of Civil Engineering, University of Queensland, St Lucia

* email e.peterson@uq.edu.au

The supplier grants the Commonwealth a non-exclusive licence to use these report.

Solar hot water demand and performance

Literature review to determine most suitable models to estimate infrared radiative cooling under clear sky conditions on the basis of coincident dewpoint and cloud cover

Literature review to determine the relationship between shallow earth temperature and inlet water temperature for solar hot water systems.

Click here for the Research Note: "SHWS Inlet Water Temperature and Clear Sky Radiative Cooling".