Trombe wall
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A Trombe wall is a massive equator-facing wall that is painted a dark color in order to absorb thermal energy from incident sunlight and covered with a glass on the outside with an insulating air-gap between the wall and the glaze. A Trombe wall is a passive solar building design strategy that adopts the concept of indirect-gain, where sunlight first strikes a solar energy collection surface in contact with a thermal mass of air. The sunlight absorbed by the mass is converted to thermal energy (heat) and then transferred into the living space.
Trombe walls are also named mass walls,[1] solar wall,[2] or thermal storage wall.[3] However, due to the extensive work of professor Félix Trombe and architect Felix in the design of passively heated and cooled solar structure, they are often called Trombe Walls.[2]
This system is similar to the air heater (as a simple glazed box on the south wall with a dark absorber, air space, and two sets of vents at top and bottom) created by professor Edward S. Morse a hundred years ago.[4][5][6]