Abstract
ABSTRACT -AIR type solar collectors for use in livestock buildings preheat the continuous ventilating air. The excess collected heat is often stored in a thermal mass for later release to the building. The performance of a collector/ storage system is usually measured in terms of reductions in supplemental heat during the heating season. Monsen et al. (1981) proposed a design method to estimate the size of thermal storage for an active solar collector in human housing. He defined two extreme hypothetical cases: (a) zero thermal storage, ZTS, and (b) infinite thermal storage, ITS. The supplemental heat demand was estimated as a fraction of ZTS. Monsen et al. (1982) then extended the ZTS/ITS method of design and analysis to a passive solar Trombe wall. The objective of the present work was to develop the ZTS/ITS method of analysis for livestock buildings and test the method for a Trombe wall solar collector/storage system in a swine building.
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