FCHART/SLR2. 0; solar heating system performance. [DEC20; DEC VAX11/780; FORTRAN 77]

Technical Report ·

OSTI ID:6346370

Chan, D

FCHART/SLR is a tool that solar designers can use to predict the thermal and economic performance of solar heating systems. FCHART/SLR can analyze the performance of three general types of solar systems: active flat plate collector systems of standard configuration used for space and water heating, passive systems consisting of up to nine passive subsystems, or a combination of active and passive systems. The types of passive subsystems considered are: trombe wall, water wall, direct gain, and sunspace. FCHART/SLR can analyze the effect of each subsystem individually, as well as predict the performance of the composite system. As well as having a choice of the type of solar system to be analyzed, the user has a choice of the type of analysis to be performed: thermal analysis, economic analysis, or both thermal and economic analysis. The economic analysis is based on standard life-cycle cost procedures.DEC20;DEC VAX11/780; FORTRAN 77; VMS 3.0 (DEC VAX11/780); The DEC20 version requires approximately 100K words of memory for execution; the VAX11/780 version requires 135,000 bytes of memory..

• Research Organization: Northeast Solar Energy Center, Boston, MA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6346370
• Report Number(s): ANL/NESC-991; ON: DE83048991
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

14 SOLAR ENERGY
140901* -- Solar Thermal Utilization-- Space Heating & Cooling
COMPUTER CODES
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
ECONOMICS
ENERGY SYSTEMS
EQUIPMENT
F CODES
F-CHART
FLAT PLATE COLLECTORS
HEATING
HEATING LOAD
HEATING SYSTEMS
PASSIVE SOLAR HEATING SYSTEMS
PERFORMANCE
SOLAR COLLECTORS
SOLAR EQUIPMENT
SOLAR HEATING
SOLAR HEATING SYSTEMS
SOLAR SPACE HEATING
SOLAR WATER HEATING
SPACE HEATING
THERMAL ANALYSIS
TROMBE WALLS
WALLS
WATER HEATING