Solar project description for Arno Kahn/Builders and Laborers Commonwealth single family residence Duluth, Minnesota

Technical Report · Fri Apr 30 04:00:00 EDT 1982

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5294625· OSTI ID:5294625

Moore, D

The Arno Kahn/Builders and Laborers Commonwealth Site is a house in a Minnesota suburb. It combines a modified direct-gain sun space system with a thermal envelope. The living space is separated from the sun space by a three-story mass wall. Sunlight enters the three-story solarium and heats the mass wall which in turn heats the air. The warm air is then distributed through the thermal envelope. Manually operated shades provide night insulation for the south-facing windows, and roof overhangs and a turbine vent in the solarium roof prevent overheating. Domestic hot water is preheated in four tanks located behind the window of the basement sunroom. The concrete floor in the basement provides part of the heat storage. Wood burning stoves and electric baseboard heaters provide auxiliary heating. Five modes of operation are described: collector-to-storage, collector-to-space heating, storage-to-space heating, solarium cooling and domestic hot water preheating. The instrumentation for the National Solar Data Network is described. The solar energy portion of the construction costs is estimated to be $7000. (LEW)

• Research Organization: Boeing Co., Seattle, WA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AB01-76CS31020
• OSTI ID: 5294625
• Report Number(s): SOLAR/1103-82/50; ON: DE82014973
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

14 SOLAR ENERGY
140901* -- Solar Thermal Utilization-- Space Heating & Cooling
APPLIANCES
ATTACHED GREENHOUSES
AUXILIARY HEATING
BASEBOARD HEATING
BUILDING MATERIALS
BUILDINGS
CONCRETES
CONVECTION
COST
DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS
DESIGN
DOUBLE ENVELOPE BUILDINGS
ENERGY STORAGE
EQUIPMENT
FLOORS
GREENHOUSES
HEAT STORAGE
HEATERS
HEATING
HOUSES
MASS
MATERIALS
NATURAL CONVECTION
OPERATION
PASSIVE SOLAR WATER HEATERS
RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS
SENSIBLE HEAT STORAGE
SHADING
SOLAR EQUIPMENT
SOLAR WATER HEATERS
SPACE HEATING
STORAGE
THERMAL MASS
WALLS
WATER HEATERS