Solar project description for Moulder Corporation single family residence, Greenwood, Indiana

Technical Report · Thu Jul 17 04:00:00 EDT 1980

OSTI ID:5196976

The Moulder Corporation solar energy system (Grant H-2754), is installed in a 1769 square-foot, three bedroom single family dwelling located in Greenwood, Indiana. The system is designed to provide solar energy for space heating and domestic hot water heating. Solar energy is used for space heating the home and preheating domestic hot water (DHW). The solar energy system has an array of flat-plate collectors with a gross area of 704 square feet. The array faces 5.5 degrees west of south at an angle of 45 degrees to the horizontal. Air is the transfer medium that delivers solar energy from the collector array to storage, space heating and hot water loads. Solar energy is stored underground in 945-cubic-foot bin containing 81,000 pounds of crushed rock. The bin has 8-inch concrete block walls and the insulation on the exterior is sprayed urethane. Preheated city water is stored in an 80-gallon preheat tank, which is inside the storage bin and is supplied, on demand, to a conventional 52-gallon DHW tank. When solar energy is insufficient to satisfy the space heating load, a conventional electric furnace provides the auxiliary energy for space heating. An electrical heating element in the DHW tank provides auxiliary energy for the hot water load. The dwelling has been fully instrumented for performance evaluation since September 1977 and the data is integrated into the National Solar Data Network. Original cost estimates for provisioning and installation of the solar system are given.

• Research Organization: Boeing Co., Seattle, WA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AB01-76CS31020
• OSTI ID: 5196976
• Report Number(s): SOLAR/1001-80/50
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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