Solar Energy System performance evaluation: seasonal report for Colt Pueblo, Pueblo, Colorado

Technical Report · Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1980

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5196768· OSTI ID:5196768

The Colt Pueblo Solar Energy System was designed to provide space heating and hot water preheating for the US Department of Transportation Test Center at Pueblo, Colorado. The system consists of 583 square feet of Colt A-151 series flat plate liquid collectors, a petroleum-base thermal energy transport fluid, an 1100 gallon water-filled solar energy storage tank, pumps, heat exchangers, controls and associated plumbing. Cold water passes through a liquid-to-liquid heat exchanger internal to the solar energy storage tank to preheat the water supplied to a 30 gallon electric hot water tank. A parallel circulation loop also operates to transfer solar generated heat to the hot water tank. Solar Energy System piping is protected from freezing with heat tapes. There are five modes of system operation. (MHR)

• Research Organization: International Business Machines Corp., Huntsville, AL (USA). Federal Systems Div.
• DOE Contract Number: AI01-76CS31037
• OSTI ID: 5196768
• Report Number(s): DOE/NASA/CR-161493
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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