Thermal performance - Rangewood Villas. Field monitoring of various conservation construction techniques in the hot-humid area

Technical Report · Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1986

OSTI ID:5822942

This report, prepared by researchers at Florida Solar Energy Center, describes data acquired over a complete year of comprehensive thermal performance monitoring. The construction details of the house and instrumentation system are clearly documented. Rangewood Villas in Cocoa, Florida, is an innovative townhouse project that incorporates several energy efficient construction techniques developed at FSEC including vent skin roofs and walls utilizing radiant barriers to substantially lower heat gain through radiant transfer of solar energy. The computer simulation model selected as the basis for data acquisition parameters is the Thermal Analysis Research Program (TARP). The TARP model does not contain humidity correlations which are very important in predicting thermal performance in the warm humid area. These correlations are developed for enhancement of the TARP model through extensive relative humidity measurements in various zones, and enthalpy measurements of the heat pump. The data acquisition system devised for this program provides a standard instrumentation system which can be adapted by others working in the hot humid area and intersted in developing comparative performance data.

• Research Organization: Florida Solar Energy Center, Cape Canaveral (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH00016
• OSTI ID: 5822942
• Report Number(s): BNL-38134; ON: DE86011528
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
HOUSES
ENERGY CONSERVATION
THERMAL EFFICIENCY
AIR CONDITIONING
AIR INFILTRATION
CONSTRUCTION
DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS
DESIGN
FLORIDA
MONITORING
ROOFS
WALLS
BUILDINGS
EFFICIENCY
FEDERAL REGION IV
NORTH AMERICA
RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS
USA
320101* - Energy Conservation
Consumption
& Utilization- Residential Buildings- (-1987)