Performance report

Technical Report · Sat Apr 01 04:00:00 EST 1978

OSTI ID:6312704

Moseley, T D

The Terrell D. Moseley Co. site is a 1780-square foot, single-story commercial office building with attached warehouse in Lynchburg, VA. The solar-energy system is designed to provide approximately 70 percent of the space-heating and hot-water energy requirements of the office building. Only the space-heating system is monitored for performance evaluation, due to extremely low hot water usage. The site has an array of flat-plate collectors with a gross collector area of 400 square feet that faces south with a tilt angle of 50 degrees from the horizontal. Water is used as the medium for delivering solar energy from the collector array to storage. The energy is stored in a 2000-gallon tank. When solar energy is insufficient, a natural gas fired boiler provides additional energy to the storage tank. The system is shown schematically. The three modes of solar operation used in heating the conditioned space are described.

• Research Organization: Moseley (Terrell E.), Inc., Lynchburg, VA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: EG-77-C-01-4049
• OSTI ID: 6312704
• Report Number(s): SOLAR/2011-78-04
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

14 SOLAR ENERGY
140901* -- Solar Thermal Utilization-- Space Heating & Cooling
140907 -- Solar Thermal Utilization-- Water Heating
AIR CONDITIONERS
APPLIANCES
BUILDINGS
CENTRAL REGION
ELECTRIC APPLIANCES
GAS APPLIANCES
HEAT EXCHANGERS
HEAT PUMPS
HEATERS
HEATING SYSTEMS
NORTH AMERICA
OFFICE BUILDINGS
PERFORMANCE
SOLAR AIR CONDITIONERS
SOLAR COOLING SYSTEMS
SOLAR HEATING SYSTEMS
SOLAR WATER HEATERS
SOLAR-ASSISTED HEAT PUMPS
USA
VIRGINIA
WATER HEATERS