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Colorado State University Program for developing, testing, evaluating, and optimizing solar heating and cooling systems. Project status report, June 1994--July 1994

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/95522· OSTI ID:95522
This report describes integrated tank/heat exchanger modeling and experiments. Experiments were performed on a Rheem wrap-around 80 gallon electric hot water heater tank with the bottom heating element replaced by a 120 feet long coil of copper tubing wrapped around the outside lower half of the tank. The bottom two-thirds of the tank is heated by hot antifreeze circulating from the solar collector through the copper coil. Results are discussed.
Research Organization:
Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO (United States). Solar Energy Applications Lab.
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
FG36-86SF16306
OSTI ID:
95522
Report Number(s):
DOE/SF/16306--42; ON: DE95017249
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English