Performance evaluation of the Balcomb solar house
Abstract
Additional instrumentation was added to the Balcomb solar house for a six-week period and up to 85 channels were recorded hourly. Some new findings based on an evaluation of these data are presented. (1) The thermal comfort characteristics of four rooms are documented. (2) Relative humidity in the living room varies from 30 to 50%; these data are used to infer an evaporation rate in the house of about 25 kg of water/day. The evaporation rate correlates reasonably well with greenhouse temperature. (3) Heat storage in the greenhouse floor is estimated at about 0.30 kWh/day-m/sup 2/ based on temperatures measured at four depths. (4) Several thermal characteristics of the rock bed are deduced but it is evident that the heat flow is not yet completely understood.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 6719712
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-80-3453; CONF-801218-4
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Colloque solaire international, Nice, France, 11 Dec 1980
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 14 SOLAR ENERGY; HOUSES; SOLAR SPACE HEATING; PASSIVE SOLAR HEATING SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE; SOLAR HEATING SYSTEMS; ADOBE; AIR INFILTRATION; ATTACHED GREENHOUSES; DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS; EVAPORATION; HUMIDITY; HYBRID SYSTEMS; NEW MEXICO; ROCK BEDS; SENSIBLE HEAT STORAGE; THERMAL COMFORT; THERMAL MASS; BUILDING MATERIALS; BUILDINGS; ENERGY STORAGE; EQUIPMENT; GREENHOUSES; HEAT STORAGE; HEATING; HEATING SYSTEMS; MASS; MATERIALS; NORTH AMERICA; PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS; RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; SOLAR HEATING; SOUTHWEST REGION; SPACE HEATING; STORAGE; USA; 140901* - Solar Thermal Utilization- Space Heating & Cooling
Citation Formats
Balcomb, J D, Hedstrom, J C, and Perry, Jr, J E. Performance evaluation of the Balcomb solar house. United States: N. p., 1980.
Web.
Balcomb, J D, Hedstrom, J C, & Perry, Jr, J E. Performance evaluation of the Balcomb solar house. United States.
Balcomb, J D, Hedstrom, J C, and Perry, Jr, J E. 1980.
"Performance evaluation of the Balcomb solar house". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6719712.
@article{osti_6719712,
title = {Performance evaluation of the Balcomb solar house},
author = {Balcomb, J D and Hedstrom, J C and Perry, Jr, J E},
abstractNote = {Additional instrumentation was added to the Balcomb solar house for a six-week period and up to 85 channels were recorded hourly. Some new findings based on an evaluation of these data are presented. (1) The thermal comfort characteristics of four rooms are documented. (2) Relative humidity in the living room varies from 30 to 50%; these data are used to infer an evaporation rate in the house of about 25 kg of water/day. The evaporation rate correlates reasonably well with greenhouse temperature. (3) Heat storage in the greenhouse floor is estimated at about 0.30 kWh/day-m/sup 2/ based on temperatures measured at four depths. (4) Several thermal characteristics of the rock bed are deduced but it is evident that the heat flow is not yet completely understood.},
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year = {Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1980},
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