Solar hot water system installed at Day's Lodge, Atlanta, Georgia
The solar energy hot water system installed in the Days Inns of America, Inc., Day's Lodge I-85 and Shallowford Road, NE Atlanta, Georgia is described. This system is one of eleven systems planned under this grant and was designed to provide for 81% of the total hot water demand. There are two separate systems, each serving one building of the lodge (total of 65 suites). The entire system contains only potable city water. The 1024 square feet of Grumman Sunstream Model 332 liquid flat plate collectors and the outside piping drains whenever the collector plates approach freezing or when power is interrupted. Solar heated water from the two above ground cement lined steel tanks (1000 gallon tank) is drawn into the electric domestic hot water (DHW) tanks as hot water is drawn. Electric resistance units in the DHW tanks top off the solar heated water, if needed, to reach thermostat setting. Operation of this system was begun in August, 1979. The solar components were partly funded ($18,042 of $36,084 cost) by the Department of Energy.
- Research Organization:
- Day's Inn of America, Inc., Atlanta, GA (USA)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG01-77CS31632
- OSTI ID:
- 5051008
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/NASA/CR-161559
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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