SLR-PLUS Version 1. 0 user's manual

Technical Report · Mon Nov 01 04:00:00 EST 1982

OSTI ID:6674471

Hill, J M

Version 1.0 of SLR-PLUS (Solar Load Ratio heating plus cooling) has been developed as an advanced passive solar system design and evaluation tool. The parent program for SLR-PLUS is the FCHART/SLR program developed by the Northeast Solar Energy Center. In keeping with the parent program (and its predecessor, the FCHART 3.0 active solar program), SLR-PLUS maintains the friendly user interface structure developed for the active solar system FCHART program. Users familiar with the FCHART programs and the FCHART/SLR program will find the operation of the SLR-PLUS program very familiar. SLR-PLUS differs significantly from its parent program in three major ways. First, SLR-PLUS is strictly for the evaluation of passive solar energy systems. Second, the latest correlations from the Los Alamos National Laboratory serve as the basis to the passive heating analysis used by SLR-PLUS. These correlations have been implemented to allow a description of the passive systems to be made based on the physical parameters of the design, such as mass density, number of glazings, mass thickness and distribution among others. Finally, SLR-PLUS includes cooling loads imposed by passive systems in the form of an annual cooling load for the building modelled and for the individual passive systems. Because of the addition of the cooling load calculations, additional work has been placed on the shading algorithms used by the program and additional shading schedules included. The present version has been developed on an Hewlett-Packard 1000 minicomputer using an RTE-IVB operating system. The present version requires approximately 22K 16-bit words of core with overlays to run. The FORTRAN source code will compile with minor changes on any FORTRAN 77 compiler.

• Research Organization: ESG, Inc., Atlanta, GA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-82CH10122
• OSTI ID: 6674471
• Report Number(s): DOE/CH/10122-9; ON: DE83004109
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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14 SOLAR ENERGY
140901* -- Solar Thermal Utilization-- Space Heating & Cooling
ATTACHED GREENHOUSES
BUILDINGS
COMPUTER CODES
COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN
CONTROL EQUIPMENT
COOLING LOAD
DIRECT GAIN SYSTEMS
DOCUMENT TYPES
ENERGY SYSTEMS
EQUIPMENT
FORTRAN
GREENHOUSES
HEAT GAIN
HEATING SYSTEMS
MANUALS
MASS
OPENINGS
PASSIVE SOLAR HEATING SYSTEMS
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
S CODES
SHADING
SOLAR EQUIPMENT
SOLAR HEATING SYSTEMS
THERMAL MASS
THERMOSTATS
TROMBE WALLS
U VALUES
WALLS
WATER WALLS
WINDOWS