Cushing Home, Murray, Utah: solar-energy system-performance evaluation, September 1981-March 1982

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

OSTI ID:5351524

Kendall, P W

The Cushing Home is a single family residence in Utah. The active solar energy system is equipped with 457 square feet of flat plate collectors, 450 gallons of water, and auxiliary electric resistance heater. It provided a total of 49% of the combined domestic hot water and space heating loads during the 1981 to 1982 heating season. Other performance data given include the solar savings ratio, conventional fuel savings, system performance factor, and coefficient of performance. The monthly performance is tabulated for the system overall and for each subsystem - collector, storage, space heating, and water heating. The monthly solar operating energy, energy savings, and weather condition are tabulated. Also graphed and discussed are typical system operation, system operating sequence, and solar energy utilization. Among the appendices are a system description, performance evaluation techniques, typical monthly data, long-term weather data, and site history. (LEW)

• Research Organization: Automation Industries, Inc., Silver Spring, MD (USA). Vitro Labs. Div.
• DOE Contract Number: AC01-79CS30027
• OSTI ID: 5351524
• Report Number(s): SOLAR/1114-82/14; ON: DE82019031
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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14 SOLAR ENERGY
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APPLIANCES
AUXILIARY HEATING
BUILDINGS
COEFFICIENT OF PERFORMANCE
CONTAINERS
DATA
DEMAND
ENERGY DEMAND
ENERGY SYSTEMS
EQUIPMENT
ETHYLENE PROPYLENE DIENE POLYMERS
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
FEDERAL REGION VIII
FLAT PLATE COLLECTORS
HEATERS
HEATING
HEATING SYSTEMS
HOUSES
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
INFORMATION
MONTHLY VARIATIONS
NORTH AMERICA
NUMERICAL DATA
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PERFORMANCE
POLYMERS
RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS
SOLAR COLLECTORS
SOLAR EQUIPMENT
SOLAR FRACTION
SOLAR HEATING
SOLAR HEATING SYSTEMS
SOLAR SPACE HEATING
SOLAR WATER HEATERS
SOLAR WATER HEATING
SPACE HEATING
TANKS
USA
UTAH
VARIATIONS
WATER
WATER HEATERS
WATER HEATING
WEATHER