Retrofit Trombe-Michel system in an old French-Canadian house

Conference · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1980 · Proc. Annu. Meet. - Am. Sect. Int. Sol. Energy Soc.; (United States)

OSTI ID:6552807

Bilgen, E

An old French-Canadian house located in Longeuil, Quebec is retrofitted with a Trombe-Michel system. It is a two-story house with some attic space and a half basement. The total floor area is about 153 m/sup 2/. It has orginally a massive brick structure; its facade is oriented to south-west with a 20/sup 0/ azimuth. The brick walls are used as thermal mass and insulated from outside at an insulation level of R(SI) = 5.28 m/sup 2/C/W. Four 0.9 x 1.6 m Trombe-Michel solar collectors and four 0.9 x 1.6 m solar collectors without thermo-circulation are fitted on the house, using the existing brick walls. The modified building's total thermal requirements are estimated to be 0.22 GJ per m/sup 2/ year. The predicted thermal behavior of the house at floating temperature mode is excellent.

• Research Organization: Energy Research Corp., Montreal, Quebec
• OSTI ID: 6552807
• Report Number(s): CONF-801016-(Vol.2)
• Conference Information: Journal Name: Proc. Annu. Meet. - Am. Sect. Int. Sol. Energy Soc.; (United States) Journal Volume: 5.2
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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