Assessment of a Single Family Residence Solar Heating System in a Suburban Development Setting. Solar Heated Residence Technical Research Experiment.

摘要

The system and its components have proven reliable and trouble free. An air to air pump was used to simulate a fluid to air heat pump. The operation of the system to date indicates that the optimized heat pump is very reliable,and that the storage system on this project will sustain the optimized heat pump operation throughout the winter. The use of a heat transfer fluid such as Dowtherm J or Therminol 60is an absolute necessity in the solar piping system and in the heat pump evaporator piping system. No fluid to air heat pumps suitable for this application have been found to be commercially available in the small packaged unit category. This report briefly describes building details,solar and mechanical systems operating modes,system component design and relationship to existing building codes,acquisition of system operation and performance data,technical operational and performance data,construction and operating costs,comparison of heat transfer fluids and problems encountered and their solutions.