Karasek Home, Blackstone, Massachusetts solar-energy-system performance evaluation, November 1981-March 1982

Technical Report · Fri Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1982

OSTI ID:5054047

Raymond, M

The Karasek Home is a single family Massachusetts residence whose active-solar-energy system is equipped with 640 square feet of trickle-down liquid flat-plate collectors, storage in a 300-gallon tank and a 2000-gallon tank embedded in a rock bin in the basement, and an oil-fired glass-lined 40-gallon domestic hot water tank for auxiliary water and space heating. Monthly performance data are tabulated for the overall system and for the collector, storage, space heating, and domestic hot water subsystems. For each month a graph is presented of collector array efficiency vs the difference between the inlet water temperature and ambient temperature divided by insolation. Typical system operation is illustrated by graphs of insolation and temperatures at different parts of the system vs time for a typical day. The typical system operating sequence for a day is also graphed as well as solar energy utilization and heat losses. (LEW)

• Research Organization: Automation Industries, Inc., Silver Spring, MD (USA). Vitro Labs. Div.
• DOE Contract Number: AC01-79CS30027
• OSTI ID: 5054047
• Report Number(s): SOLAR/1120-82/14; ON: DE82021302
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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AUXILIARY HEATING
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COEFFICIENT OF PERFORMANCE
CONTAINERS
DATA
EFFICIENCY
ENERGY STORAGE
ENERGY SYSTEMS
EQUIPMENT
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HOUSES
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
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NUMERICAL DATA
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PERFORMANCE
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SENSIBLE HEAT STORAGE
SOLAR COLLECTORS
SOLAR EQUIPMENT
SOLAR FRACTION
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