SOLERAS - Solar Cooling Engineering Field Tests Project: United Technologies Research Center. Design guidelines for solar heating/cooling/power generation systems
This report documents the methodology, design guidelines and analytical tools for the preliminary technical/economic evaluation of solar heating/cooling/power generation systems. In particular, it provides the theoretical framework, data bases and software tools for: determining the preliminary economic feasibility of solar-powered configurations compared with grid-supplied electric power and/or competing fossil fuels; selecting the optimum system configuration with respect to solar collector area and ''solar-side'' thermal storage capacity. Implementation of the methodology described in this report can be facilitated by the use of the accompanying IBM PC-compatible computer program ''SOLERAS''. This report represents the final task of the multi-year SOLERAS Program -- jointly sponsored by the US Department of Energy and the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology -- which involved the development and field-testing of a solar-powered cooling system in Phoenix, AZ. 11 refs., 37 figs.
- Research Organization:
- Midwest Research Inst., Kansas City, MO (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-83CH10093
- OSTI ID:
- 6715624
- Report Number(s):
- MRI/SOL-0207; ON: DE89003228
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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SOLAR COOLING SYSTEMS
DESIGN
SOLAR ENERGY
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
AGRICULTURE
COST
DESALINATION
ELECTRIC POWER
FREEZING OUT
HEAT EXCHANGERS
HEAT TRANSFER
IRRIGATION
MAINTENANCE
PHOTOVOLTAIC CONVERSION
SAUDI ARABIA
SOLAR COLLECTORS
SOLAR HEATING
SOLAR THERMAL CONVERSION
STEAM GENERATION
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE EQUIPMENT
USA
ASIA
CONVERSION
DEMINERALIZATION
DIRECT ENERGY CONVERSION
ENERGY
ENERGY CONVERSION
ENERGY SOURCES
ENERGY TRANSFER
EQUIPMENT
HEATING
INDUSTRY
NORTH AMERICA
POWER
RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
SEPARATION PROCESSES
SOLAR ENERGY CONVERSION
SOLAR EQUIPMENT
140900* - Solar Thermal Utilization
141000 - Solar Collectors & Concentrators
142000 - Solar Energy- Heat Storage- (1980-)
140501 - Solar Energy Conversion- Photovoltaic Conversion