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Principles of Sustainable Energy Systems, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
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Principles of Sustainable Energy Systems, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

by Frank Kreith, Susan Krumdieck
August 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
790 pages
30h 5m
English
CRC Press
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525Passive Solar Heating, Cooling, and Daylighting
© 2008 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
9.5.1 First Level: Generalized Methods
A rst estimate or starting value is needed to begin the overall passive system design
process. Generalized methods and rules of thumb have been developed to generate initial
values for solar aperture size, storage size, solar savings fraction, auxiliary heat required,
and other size and performance characteristics. The following rules of thumb are meant to
be used with the dened terms presented earlier.
9.5.1.1 Load
A rule of thumb used in conventional building design is that a design heating load of 120–
160 kJ/CDD per m ...
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ISBN: 9781466556966