在规划这一应用研究项目——指定原型能源回收（PER）和太阳能系统——时，博纳维尔电力管理局的目标是实现原型设备的设计，该设备将在华盛顿温哥华的罗斯控制室安装和测试。承包商将设计和提供的一个原型装置是一台基于溴化锂-水循环的吸收机，该装置将设计为与高效设计的平板收集器一起运行。还选择了其他几个一般性能设计目标。安装的目的是测试一个潜在的商业原型，而不是为特定建筑的气候控制生产最经济的系统。 引文:宾夕法尼亚州费城ASHRAE学报第85卷第1部分研讨会

In planning for this applied research project -- designated Prototype Energy Retrieval (PER) and Solar System -- the Bonneville Power Administration's goal was to bring about the design of prototype equipment which would be installed and tested at the Ross Control House in Vancouver, Washington.One prototype device to be designed and supplied by the Contractor was an absorption machine, based on a lithium bromide - water cycle, which would be designed for operation with flat plate collectors of high efficiency designs. Several other general performance design goals were also selected.The objective of the installation was to test a potentially commercial prototype, not to produce the most economic system for climate control of a particular building.