SOLERAS - Solar Cooling Engineering Field Tests Project: United Technologies Research Center. Final report, Volume 3. Engineering field test

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

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5122233· OSTI ID:5122233

A solar-powered air conditioning system was designed, constructed, and installed at a Phoenix, Arizona site whose climatic conditions approximate those of Saudi Arabia. The nominal 18 ton capacity Rankine cycle chiller system with hot and cold storage and conventional fan/coil delivery units was operated for two cooling seasons and met its design objectives.

• Research Organization: Midwest Research Inst., Kansas City, MO (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: FC02-80ET20642
• OSTI ID: 5122233
• Report Number(s): MRI/SOL-0200-03; ON: DE86001247
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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14 SOLAR ENERGY
140901* -- Solar Thermal Utilization-- Space Heating & Cooling
141000 -- Solar Collectors & Concentrators
AIR CONDITIONERS
ARIZONA
ASIA
COEFFICIENT OF PERFORMANCE
CONCENTRATING COLLECTORS
CONSTRUCTION
CONTROL SYSTEMS
COOPERATION
DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS
DESIGN
EFFICIENCY
ENERGY STORAGE
ENGINES
EQUIPMENT
FEDERAL REGION IX
HEAT ENGINES
HEAT FLOW
HEAT STORAGE
INSTALLATION
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
MAINTENANCE
NORTH AMERICA
PARABOLIC COLLECTORS
PARABOLIC TROUGH COLLECTORS
PERFORMANCE TESTING
RANKINE CYCLE ENGINES
RELIABILITY
SAUDI ARABIA
SENSIBLE HEAT STORAGE
SOLAR AIR CONDITIONERS
SOLAR COLLECTORS
SOLAR COOLING SYSTEMS
SOLAR EQUIPMENT
STORAGE
TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT
TESTING
USA
VAPOR COMPRESSION REFRIGERATION CYCLE