Economic analysis of community solar heating systems that use annual cycle thermal energy storage / F. Baylin [and others].

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Baylin, Frank

Solar Energy Research Institute

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Solar heating.

Solar thermal energy--Research.

Solar thermal energy.

Heat storage.

active solar heating.

solar heating (systems).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 36 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Golden, CO : Solar Energy Research Institute, [1981]

Summary:

This report examines the economics of community-scale solar systems that incorporate a centralized annual cycle thermal energy storage (ACTES) coupled to a distribution system. Systems were sized for three housing configurations: single-unit dwellings, 10-unit, and 200-unit apartment complexes in 50-, 200-, 400-, and 1000-unit communities in 10 geographic locations in the United States. Thermal energy is stored in large, constructed, underground tanks. Costs were assigned to each component of every system in order to allow calculation of total costs. Results are presented as normalized system costs per unit of heat delivered per building unit.

Notes:

Title from PDF title screen (NREL, viewed Jan. 19, 2010).

"February 1981."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 35-36).

"SERI/TR-721-898."

Other Format:

Microfiche: Economic analysis of community solar heating systems that use annual cycle thermal energy storage.

OCLC:

697650794