Solar Roof Design for Household Cooling and Heating - Project Proposal and Plan

Prof. Curran/Dr. Saunders, 2013, project template v2
(Solar Roof Design For Household Cooling And Heating)
Project Proposal and Plan
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Prof. Curran/Dr. Saunders, 2013, project template v2
Executive Summary
Solar roof design mainly takes advantages of building sites, climate and lastly material which is
required for reducing the energy use. A proper design solar home helps in reducing heat and
cooling loads by the help of energy efficient strategies. It aims to meeting the reduced loads
which is part of the solar energy. There are some instances when the sunlight can strike the
building then it can transmit, reflect and the incoming solar radiation. Apart from this, the heat
generated by sun can easily result in air movement which can be analyzed in space for design.
There is some basic response to solar heat which is required for the design element, choice of
material and its placement. It can easily provide heating and cooling effect in a home.

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction..............................................................................................................................4
2. State-of-the-art/Literature Review............................................................................................4
3. Research Question, Aim/Objectives and Sub-goals................................................................4
4. Theoretical Content/Methodology............................................................................................4
5. Experimental Set-up.................................................................................................................4
6. Results, Outcome and Relevance.............................................................................................5
7. Project Planning and Gantt Chart.............................................................................................5
8. Conclusions..............................................................................................................................5
9. References................................................................................................................................6

Prof. Curran/Dr. Saunders, 2013, project template v2
1. Introduction
Sunlight can easily provide given ample amount of heat, light and shade. It can easily
induce proper kind of ventilation into well design home (Lechner 2014). Passive solar design is
considered to be helpful in reducing heat and cooling for energy bills, increasing vitality and
lastly comfort. Flexible passive solar design principles can easily provide benefits which come
with low maintenance of risk over the life of the building (Cremers et al. 2015). There are many
ways which can be used for design or modifying the home for achieving comfort by Passive
cooling. It can be aimed for providing some hybrid approach for utilizing some of mechanical
cooling system. Some of the best passive cooling strategies in home are orientation, ventilation,
insulation and lastly thermal mass. Design of energy efficient solar building is totally based on
solar path, humidity, climate and last flow of wind. Passive design of solar helps in combination
of building features which are needed for reducing and eliminating the requirement for
mechanical cooling and heating (Kalkan and Dağtekin 2015). The design needs to be simple and
it does not require solar geometry, window technology and lastly local climate. In comparison to
active solar system, passive solar system is considered to be much simple and does not require
use of any mechanical and electrical device like fans and pumps.
In the coming pages of the report a literature review has been done on solar rooftop
design for household cooling and heating. After that various aims and objective of research has
been discussed in details. All the theoretical content of solar rooftop design has been discussed in
details. The last section of the report mainly deals with experimental setup, outcome, project
planning, and Gantt chart.