Designing of a House Utilizing Passive Solar Energy

Design of a House Utilizing Passive Solar Energy

(Also solution available in SI units)

The assignment will be to “design” a house utilizing passive solar energy features in order to meet a target fraction of heating energy from the solar features. Each team will need to decide what type of passive solar configuration to use (chosen from the 94 given in Appendix A in the text). Each team’s report should include an estimate of the annual heating cost for the home along with some estimate of the cost of implementing the configuration chosen and the expected annual savings.

The data that each group will start with is:

• –  2,500 ft2 floor space
• –  NLC of 6-8 Btu/FHDD-ft2
• –  Ap ranges from 200 to 500 ft2
• –  home located Nashville, TN
• –  base cost of home is $95/ft2
• –  natural gas cost is $12.50/MMBtu (million Btu)
• –  electricity cost is $0.105/kWhr
• –  target SSF is 0.4