Suncatcher Monitoring Project. Final report, September 1, 1977-December 31, 1978 [electronic resource]
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| Format: | Government Document Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oak Ridge, Tenn. :
distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy,
1979.
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| Abstract: | The Suncatcher Monitoring Project has to date accumulated a wide variety of data on the Nittler/Maeda Suncatcher house in Davis, California, designed by Living Systems. Highlights of the data indicate 70% solar heating during 1978 despite unusually adverse winter weather conditons and a 40% increase of solar energy in winter through clerestory glazing as compared to ordinary south glazing. The data acquisition system (DAS) only worked intermittently during 1978, but hourly data was gathered during several intervals and daily data was virtually continuous. As a back-up to this hourly gathering of data hand read data was taken daily from September 1977 to the present. This manually collected data has allowed a reliable estimate of the Suncatcher house's performance. Summer data on Suncatcher window performance has been collected for comparison purposes, but budget constraints have delayed completion of computer modeling of the Suncatcher performance. Comparison of the overall Suncatcher's performance with the estimation models, SOLEST and LASL6, and simulation model, SOLSIM, appear accurate, although completion of the reflector enhancement algorithm remains desirable. |
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| Item Description: | Published through SciTech Connect. 08/01/1979. "coo-4154-4" Maeda, B.T.; Grant, P.W.; Anson, R.D. Davis Alternative Technology Associates, CA (USA) |
| Physical Description: | Pages: 69 : digital, PDF file. |