A microeconomic approach to passive solar design: Performance, cost, optimal sizing and comfort analysis
This paper presents a microeconomic methodology for the analysis and design evaluation of residential passive solar heating applications. Results from PASOLE, an hour-by-hour thermal network simulation program developed at Los Alamos, are used to graphically evaluate design-performance tradeoffs and to estimate quantitative interpolative relationships within the context of economic production function theory. Solar performance isoquants are generated and combined with architectural costs estimates to arrive at least-cost expansion paths along which the optimal life-cycle system can be determined. Comfort considerations, sizing limitations, building code restrictions and other factors introduce constraints in the design process, which can be dealt with qualitatively or quantitatively through a constrained optimization procedure.
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1979
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Authors: | Noll, Scott ; Wray, William O. |
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Energy. - Elsevier, ISSN 0360-5442. - Vol. 4.1979, 4, p. 575-591
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Elsevier |
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