Performance of Los Alamos solar Mobile/Modular Home Unit No. 1
Mobile/Modular Home Unit No. 1 at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory is an active air system which incorporates 340 ft/sup 2/ of flat black single-glazed flat-plate air collectors mounted at a 60/sup 0/ tilt on the south wall. The thermal storage is in 1536 pint jars of water spaced apart by 5/8 in. to allow air flow around the jars. Data have been obtained on the unit from October 1976, up to the present. Data acquisition is by a Hewlett--Packard 3050 system controlled with a HP 9825 desk top calculator. Complete energy summaries for the heating seasons have been obtained. The solar energy system has provided about 70% of the heating requirements of the house each season. Although the solar energy system provides a major fraction of the space and domestic hot water requirements, the yearly total energy supplied is low. This is primarily because the house load was lower than expected due to passive gains and internal heat generation Low performance is also due to a low storage mass (5.3 Btu/ft/sup 2/ /sup 0/F) and several possible uncontrolled air leaks.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos Scientific Lab., NM (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- OSTI ID:
- 6766806
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-78-2587; CONF-781102-1
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Solar heating and cooling systems operational results conference, Colorado Springs, CO, USA, 29 Nov 1978
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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