- Author
- Jones, D. E. | Hill, J. E.
- Title
- Performance of a Packaged Solar Space-Heating System Used With a Mobile Home.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC
- Sponsor
- Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC
- Report
- NBSIR 79-1799, August 1979,
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
- houses; trailers; performance tests; performance evaluation; design; drawings | solar collectors
- Identifiers
- mobile homes; solar heating systems; solar space heating; solar collectors; flat plate collectors; solar air heaters; rock beds
- Abstract
- As part of a continuing program to develop test methods for solar heating equipment, NBS is now developing a standard test procedure for packaged solar space-heating systems similar to test procedures now used for solar collectors and thermal storage devices, and now under development for packaged solar water-heating systems. As a first step, a mobile home, which was previously tested for thermal performance in an environmental chamber, was equipped with a packaged solar space-heating system using air-heating collectors and pebble-bed storage. The system was fully instrumented and data were collected over the 1977-78 heating season at the NBS site in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The performance of the system was determined and various methods of correlating performance were explored.