A house is being designed to use a thick concrete floor mass as thermal storage material for

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A house is being designed to use a thick concrete floor mass as thermal storage material for solar energy heating. The concrete is 30 cm thick and the area exposed to the sun during the day time is 4m x 6m. It is expected that this mass will undergo an average temperature rise of about 3oC during the day. How much energy will be available for heating during the nighttime hours?
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Fundamentals of Thermodynamics

ISBN: 978-0471152323

6th edition

Authors: Richard E. Sonntag, Claus Borgnakke, Gordon J. Van Wylen

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