Mobile homes are different from the conventional home in configuration, structure, arrangement and cost. About 55 % of all mobile home owners live in some type of mobile home park. The concept and design criteria of solar thermal systems for a single mobile home or for the entire mobile home park are somewhat different from those required for a conventional home or subdivision. This paper presents these unique characteristics of the mobile home and the mobile home park and community. The impacts of these unique characteristics on the design/selection of the solar space heating/cooling, domestic hot water heating systems are discussed. A typical mobile home park is selected for investigation of the solar system for four representative climatic regions (cool, temperate, hot-humid and hot-arid) of this country. Several design concepts are presented. An economic feasibility study of using solar thermal systems in a mobile home park and community is discussed. (DePo)
On the study of applications of solar thermal energy for mobile home park and community
Studie der moeglichen Anwendung von Solarenergie fuer die Heizung von Anhaengerwohnwagen und Siedlungen
1977
9 Seiten, 6 Bilder, 4 Tabellen, 34 Quellen
Conference paper
English