Solar house / demonstration building for the MW projekt

Objective

The purpose of the project is to design state of the art solar systems for incorporation in existing building shells. The solar systems, both active and passive, will use daylight to heat and cool buildings and provide drinking water from the Tagus.


The massive existing building shell is used as thermal mass in combination with a large scale heat exchanger and an artificial graduated aquifer which is connected to the channel of the River Tagus.

The south facade will be designed as a daylight/passive gain guidance system as well as PV-Collector and additional insulation at night.
PV electricity will feed the necessary pumps for the water-based heating/cooling system, ventilators, BMSSystem and lighting. In addition, the river water will be purified for drinking water and used for drinking,
irrigation and to clean solar cells (existing water is too dirty).
In case of surplus PV electricity, purified water will be stored and used for the adjacent 1 MW PV plant.

Fields of science

• engineering and technology › environmental engineering › water treatment processes › drinking water treatment processes
• engineering and technology › civil engineering › water engineering › irrigation
• engineering and technology › mechanical engineering › thermodynamic engineering

Programme(s)

• FP3-JOULE 2 - Specific research and technological development programme (EEC) in the field of non-nuclear energy, 1990-1994

Topic(s)

• 0301 - The solar house

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

Union Eléctrica Fenosa SA

Address

53,capitán Haya
28020 Madrid
Spain

Participants (1)

Kaiser Bautechnik Ingenieurgesellschaft

Germany

Address

Am Freischütz 12
47057 Duisburg