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Title: System manual for the University of Pennsylvania retrofitted solar heated Philadelphia row home (SolaRow)

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6659221· OSTI ID:6659221

The University of Pennsylvania SolaRow house, an urban row home retrofitted for comfort and domestic hot water heating, was extensively instrumented for performance monitoring and acquisition of weather and solar radiation data. This report describes the heating and instrumentation systems, provides the details for instrumentation, piping and valve identification, and specifies the operation and maintenance of the heating and data acquisition systems. The following are included: (1) system flow diagrams; (2) valve and cable identification tables; (3) wiring diagrams; and (4) start-up, normal operation, shut-down, maintenance and trouble-shooting procedures. It thus provides the necessary technical information to permit system operation and monitoring, overall system performance analysis and optimization, and acquisition of climatological data.

Research Organization:
Pennsylvania Univ., Philadelphia (USA). Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
DOE Contract Number:
AS02-77CS34142
OSTI ID:
6659221
Report Number(s):
COO-4142-4
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English