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Title: Passive solar design handbooks: Vol III: passive solar design analysis and supplement

Abstract

This book applies the Los Alamos Solar Load Ratio (SLR) method to the design of passive solar heating systems, with an emphasis on the average annual heating energy consumption. Recommendations are given on minimizing heating energy consumption by appropriate choices of conservation level and solar system parameters. Analytical methods and supporting tables are presented which enable simple, fast estimates of the heating energy consumption as part of the design process. Topics considered include SLR correlations, the load collector ratio (LCR) method, sensitivity data, cooling considerations, conservation formulas, design procedure, life-cycle costs, high-mass direct gain buildings, low-mass sun-tempered buildings, sunspaces, off-reference night insulation, correlation equations, and mixed systems.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Lab., Los Alamos, NM
OSTI Identifier:
5281492
Resource Type:
Book
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
14 SOLAR ENERGY; BUILDINGS; SOLAR SPACE HEATING; PASSIVE SOLAR HEATING SYSTEMS; DESIGN; LOAD COLLECTOR RATIO; SOLAR FRACTION; CALCULATION METHODS; COOLING; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; EQUATIONS; LASL; LIFE-CYCLE COST; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLAR ARCHITECTURE; ARCHITECTURE; COST; ENERGY SYSTEMS; EQUIPMENT; HEATING; HEATING SYSTEMS; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; SOLAR HEATING; SOLAR HEATING SYSTEMS; SPACE HEATING; US AEC; US DOE; US ERDA; US ORGANIZATIONS; 140901* - Solar Thermal Utilization- Space Heating & Cooling

Citation Formats

Balcomb, J D, Jones, R W, Kosciewicz, C E, Lazarus, G S, McFarland, R D, and Wray, W O. Passive solar design handbooks: Vol III: passive solar design analysis and supplement. United States: N. p., 1983. Web.
Balcomb, J D, Jones, R W, Kosciewicz, C E, Lazarus, G S, McFarland, R D, & Wray, W O. Passive solar design handbooks: Vol III: passive solar design analysis and supplement. United States.
Balcomb, J D, Jones, R W, Kosciewicz, C E, Lazarus, G S, McFarland, R D, and Wray, W O. 1983. "Passive solar design handbooks: Vol III: passive solar design analysis and supplement". United States.
@article{osti_5281492,
title = {Passive solar design handbooks: Vol III: passive solar design analysis and supplement},
author = {Balcomb, J D and Jones, R W and Kosciewicz, C E and Lazarus, G S and McFarland, R D and Wray, W O},
abstractNote = {This book applies the Los Alamos Solar Load Ratio (SLR) method to the design of passive solar heating systems, with an emphasis on the average annual heating energy consumption. Recommendations are given on minimizing heating energy consumption by appropriate choices of conservation level and solar system parameters. Analytical methods and supporting tables are presented which enable simple, fast estimates of the heating energy consumption as part of the design process. Topics considered include SLR correlations, the load collector ratio (LCR) method, sensitivity data, cooling considerations, conservation formulas, design procedure, life-cycle costs, high-mass direct gain buildings, low-mass sun-tempered buildings, sunspaces, off-reference night insulation, correlation equations, and mixed systems.},
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url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5281492}, journal = {},
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place = {United States},
year = {Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1983},
month = {Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1983}
}

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