Waverly Homes, Inc. (Lot 13) single family residence, Westminster, Colorado. Solar project description
The Waverly Homes, Inc. House is one of two instrumented single-family residences built in Westminster, Colorado. Solar energy is used for space heating the home and preheating incoming city water. The system has an array of flat-plate collectors with a gross area of 351 square feet. Air is used as the medium for delivering solar energy from the collector array to storage and to the space heating and hot water loads. Solar energy is stored in the basement in a 175 cubic-foot concrete bin containing 17,500 pounds of rock. Solar energy preheated city water is stored in an 80-gallon preheat storage tank and supplied, on demand, to a conventional 40-gallon domestic-hot-water (DHW) tank. When solar energy is insufficient to satisfy the space heating load, a gas furnace provides auxiliary energy for space heating. Similarly, a gas heater in the DHW tank provides auxiliary energy for water heating. The dwelling has been fully instrumented for performance evaluation since September 1977 and the data is integrated into the National Solar Data Network. Original cost estimates for provisioning and installation of the solar system are given.
- Research Organization:
- Boeing Co., Seattle, WA (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AB01-76CS31020
- OSTI ID:
- 6517562
- Report Number(s):
- SOLAR/1022-81/50; ON: DE81023693
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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APPLIANCES
BUILDINGS
DESIGN
ENERGY STORAGE
ENERGY SYSTEMS
EQUIPMENT
FLAT PLATE COLLECTORS
FURNACES
GAS FURNACES
HEAT STORAGE
HEATERS
HEATING
HEATING SYSTEMS
HOUSES
RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS
ROCK BEDS
SENSIBLE HEAT STORAGE
SOLAR COLLECTORS
SOLAR EQUIPMENT
SOLAR HEATING
SOLAR HEATING SYSTEMS
SOLAR SPACE HEATING
SOLAR WATER HEATERS
SOLAR WATER HEATING
SPACE HEATING
STORAGE
WATER HEATERS
WATER HEATING