Performance Evaluation of Solar Films and Screens.

摘要

The use of solar films and screens to reduce energy usage is surveyed by means of Market and Literature Surveys that provide basic information on the availability, manufacture, function, cost, and solar optical properties of solar films and screens. A simplified method of determining potential energy savings is given in a step by step format that includes consideration of solar heat gain, heat loss, and daylighting aspects of the application of solar films and screens. This simplified hand calculation procedure should provide an interim means of providing the energy saving information required by the Energy Conservation Investment Program. More sophisticated methods of calculation are under development by the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory under a contract with the Department of Energy. This computer model technique combined with empirical data should be available by mid to end of year 1979.