Solar Project Description. Scattergood School Recreation Center, West Branch, Iowa. [Includes glossary]

Technical Report · Fri May 26 00:00:00 EDT 1978

OSTI ID:6533662

A brief summary is given of the Scattergood School, Recreation Center Solar installation. The 4-tier collector array, tilted at 50/sup 0/, consists of 128 double glazed collectors that use air as the heat transfer fluid. The array is attached to the southward facing gymnasium wall on a partial A-frame structure. The area between the collector array and the gymnasium wall, which is enclosed and unconditioned, houses the storage tank, air handling equipment, ductwork, and other solar system components. The storage tank is a partially buried 65 ton pebble bed tank. It is insulated with 2 inches of fiberglass. The pebbles are washed river gravel, 1 to 3 inches in diameter. Domestic hot water is preheated by a cross-flow heat exchanger located in the warm air supply duct and is stored in two 120 gallon, glass-lined, storage tanks. The solar energy system has been operational since May 1977. It has been fully instrumented for performance evaluation and integrated into the National Solar Data Network.

• Research Organization: International Business Machines Corp., Huntsville, AL (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: EG-77-C-01-4049
• OSTI ID: 6533662
• Report Number(s): SOLAR/2003-78/50
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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