Solar energy system performance evaluation update: Williamson Home, Ipswich, Massachusetts, October 1982-September 1983

Technical Report · Sat Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1983

OSTI ID:5248588

Logee, T L

The Williamson Home, located in Ipswich, Massachusetts is a 1568-square-foot single family residence using solar energy to heat Domestic Hot Water (DHW) and provide space heating. The solar energy system is designed to supply approximately 53% of the space heating and DHW energy requirements for the house. The active solar energy system has an array of ten flat-plate collectors which use air as the collector medium. The gross collector area of each panel is 50.1 inches x 97.4 inches for a total gross area of 339 square feet. Solar storage is provided by a 240-cubic-foot bin filled with two-inch to three-inch diameter rocks. The hot water subsystem consists of a pickoff-type air-to-water heat exchanger, circulating pump, and a 100-gallon gas-fired hot water tank. This report is the second in a series of performance evaluation reports on the Williamson Home. The solar energy system was operational during the entire reporting period, October 1982 through September 1983. Solar energy supplied 9.16 million Btu to a load of 14.9 million Btu. The solar fraction of the load was 62%. The measured system load was four times smaller than the design load, and solar energy used was three and one-hale times smaller. However, the system solar fraction was slightly better than the design estimate of 53%.

• Research Organization: Vitro Corp., Silver Spring, MD (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC01-79CS30027
• OSTI ID: 5248588
• Report Number(s): SOLAR/1115-83/14; ON: DE84004462
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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14 SOLAR ENERGY
140901* -- Solar Thermal Utilization-- Space Heating & Cooling
140907 -- Solar Thermal Utilization-- Water Heating
APPLIANCES
BUILDINGS
DATA
EFFICIENCY
ENERGY SYSTEMS
EQUIPMENT
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
FLAT PLATE COLLECTORS
HEATERS
HEATING
HEATING SYSTEMS
HOUSES
INFORMATION
NUMERICAL DATA
PERFORMANCE
RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS
ROCK BEDS
SOLAR COLLECTORS
SOLAR EQUIPMENT
SOLAR FRACTION
SOLAR HEATING
SOLAR HEATING SYSTEMS
SOLAR SPACE HEATING
SOLAR WATER HEATERS
SOLAR WATER HEATING
SPACE HEATING
WATER HEATERS
WATER HEATING