Solar heating and cooling demonstration project at the Florida Solar Energy Center
The retrofitted solar heating and cooling system installed at the Florida Solar Energy Center is described. Information is provided on the system's test, operation, controls, hardware and installation, including detailed drawings. The Center's office building, approximately 5000 square feet of space, with solar air conditioning and heating as a demonstration of the technical feasibility is located just north of Port Canaveral, Florida. The system was designed to supply approximately 70% of the annual cooling and 100% of the heating load. The project provides unique high-temperature, non-imaging, non-tracking, evacuated-tube collectors. The design of the system was kept simple and employs five hydronic loops. They are energy collection, chilled water production, space cooling, space heating and energy rejection.
- Research Organization:
- Florida Solar Energy Center, Cape Canaveral (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- EG-77-A-01-4074; EX-76-A-29-1024
- OSTI ID:
- 5593700
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/NASA/CR-161413
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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