If it's always in heat dump mode, there's no need for the separate thermal storage you'd get using an indirect as your heat exchanger. The amount of head the pump is working against may differ though, if that's your concern (in which case you can look up the specs.) The slab itself will have many times the thermal-mass of even a pretty big indirect.
It's also not clear why you need the isolation of heat exchangers & dual pumps unless you're planning on having other thermal inputs into the radiant loop water(?). Are you looking at dramatically different flow rates in normal operation? You have only one load, and one source- if well designed it should only take one pump, and one measured delta-T.
You don't say where you are located, but an insulated reasonably well sealed basement with an insulated slab & conditioned space above it will generally stay over 50F year round in most populated regions of N. America. And if it's not already an insulated slab in a well sealed & insulated basement you're wasting your money on the solar equipment. First rule of solar: Reduce the loads to the minimum-practical level. Good old low-tech low-maintenance insulation & air sealing is where you need to go first.
Also if you're only running 70F-80F water into the slab, that's sufficiently cool to get decent efficiency out of less expensive flat-panel collectors even when it's 10F out. Even if it's commonly colder than that there during peak winter sun, the lower efficiency of the panels under those conditions may be compensated for with more collector area and far higher annual performance for the same cash outlay in solar collectors. This isn't a DHW application where you need 120F water, by any means. The colder you run the collectors, the higher the net efficiency. |