Detailed Designs and Construction: Individual Load Center - Solar Heating and Cooling Residential Project. Summary Report

摘要

Conceptual system designs for each of ten experimental solar/load managed residences are given. The five residences in Albuquerque, New Mexico are of conventional Southwest design with particular care being paid to energy conserving features and aesthetic integration of solar collectors. On Long Island, New York the houses will be slightly different in appearance, but designed with the same demanding standards as the Albuquerque houses. The design and procurement approach for the experimental subsystems (solar, load management, heat pump, and instrumentation and controls) were based upon a turnkey approach. Vendors were selected based on their response to performance specifications and drawings issued for each system. Solar equipment for the residences is of both liquid and air type. Careful attention was paid to integration of the solar collectors into the basic house architecture. Both hot water and space heating functions are provided for in the solar designs. The load management thermal storage systems will incorporate both buried and above ground tanks with the flexibility to operate at either half or full capacity. Heat pumps are to be used in each residence and will be of either a multimode design or multiple, conventional air-to-air and water source heat pumps. The instrumentation and control systems will be remote and field programmable based on microprocessor technology. All ten houses have been built, had their experimental systems installed and are currently occupied. Data retrieval and analysis have begun. (ERA citation 05:011653)