Jamestown College sports building solar system SHAC No. 1150. Final report

Technical Report · Tue Nov 08 04:00:00 EST 1983

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5519413· OSTI ID:5519413

Dekrey, D.

Jamestown College is a small private college located in central North Dakota. High fuel prices combined with severe winter conditions make inexpensive alternate fuel sources attractive. The selection of Jamestown College as the site for a Solar Heating and Cooling Demonstration Project was therefore met with a great heat of enthusiasm. The system consists of 198 ground-mounted, liquid, flat plate collectors and a 10,000 gallon storage tank for heat storage. Heat is collected by circulating a 50% water, 50% ethylene-glycol solution through the solar panels. A heat exchanger transfers the heat from the ethylene-glycol solution to water stored in the 10,000 gallon underground storage tank. The water in the storage tank is used throughout the building for heating purposes. This system can store heat in excess of building demands for use during nonsolar conditions. The system supplies supplementary building heat, domestic hot water preheat and supplementary swimming pool heat. Included in this report are: general system description; acceptance testing; acceptance test plan; operation and maintenance manual; maintenance and inspection schedule; and manufacturers literature.

• Research Organization: Lightowler Johnson Associates, Inc., Fargo, ND (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: FC03-78CS32150
• OSTI ID: 5519413
• Report Number(s): DOE/CS/32150-T1; ON: DE84002241
• 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
ALCOHOLS
BUILDINGS
DESIGN
EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES
ENERGY STORAGE
ENERGY SYSTEMS
EQUIPMENT
FLAT PLATE COLLECTORS
FLUIDS
GLYCOLS
HEAT STORAGE
HEAT TRANSFER FLUIDS
HEATING
HEATING SYSTEMS
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
HYDROXY COMPOUNDS
INSPECTION
MAINTENANCE
OPERATION
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
SCHOOL BUILDINGS
SENSIBLE HEAT STORAGE
SOLAR COLLECTORS
SOLAR EQUIPMENT
SOLAR HEATING
SOLAR HEATING SYSTEMS
SOLAR SPACE HEATING
SOLAR WATER HEATING
SPACE HEATING
STORAGE
SURFACE WATERS
SWIMMING POOLS
TESTING
WATER
WATER HEATING