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Title: Solar hot water system installed at Days Inn Motel, Jacksonville, Florida

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5035279· OSTI ID:5035279

The solar energy hot water system installed in the Days Inns of America, Inc., Days Inn Motel (120 rooms) I-95 and Cagle Road, Jacksonville, Florida, is described. The solar system was designed by ILI, Incorporated to provide 65 percent of the hot water demand. The system is one of eleven systems planned under this grant. Water (in the Solar Energy Products, Model CU-30ww liquid flat plate collector (900 square feet) system) automatically drains into the 1000 gallon lined and vented steel storage tank when the pump is not running. Heat is transferred from storage to Domestic Hot Water (DHW) tanks through a tube and shell heat exchanger. A circulating pump between the DHW tanks and heat exchanger enables solar heated water to help make up DHW standby losses. All pumps are controlled by differential temperature. This system was turned on June 19, 1979. The solar components were partly funded ($15,823 of $31,823 cost) by the Department of Energy.

Research Organization:
Day's Inn of America, Inc., Atlanta, GA (USA)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
FG01-77CS31632
OSTI ID:
5035279
Report Number(s):
DOE/NASA/CR-161560
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English