Evaluation of the Thermal Performance of Radiant Barrier in Heating and Cooling Load Reduction of Residential Buildings

ICSDC 2011 ◽  
2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Somayeh Asadi ◽  
Marwa Hassan
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 3829 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arash Moradzadeh ◽  
Amin Mansour-Saatloo ◽  
Behnam Mohammadi-Ivatloo ◽  
Amjad Anvari-Moghaddam

Nowadays, since energy management of buildings contributes to the operation cost, many efforts are made to optimize the energy consumption of buildings. In addition, the most consumed energy in the buildings is assigned to the indoor heating and cooling comforts. In this regard, this paper proposes a heating and cooling load forecasting methodology, which by taking this methodology into the account energy consumption of the buildings can be optimized. Multilayer perceptron (MLP) and support vector regression (SVR) for the heating and cooling load forecasting of residential buildings are employed. MLP and SVR are the applications of artificial neural networks and machine learning, respectively. These methods commonly are used for modeling and regression and produce a linear mapping between input and output variables. Proposed methods are taught using training data pertaining to the characteristics of each sample in the dataset. To apply the proposed methods, a simulated dataset will be used, in which the technical parameters of the building are used as input variables and heating and cooling loads are selected as output variables for each network. Finally, the simulation and numerical results illustrates the effectiveness of the proposed methodologies.


Energies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 1879 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saad Odeh

To improve the energy efficiency of dwellings, rooftop photovoltaic (PV) technology is proposed in contemporary designs; however, adopting this technology will add a new component to the roof that may affect its thermal balance. This paper studies the effect of roof shading developed by solar PV panels on dwellings’ thermal performance. The analysis in this work is performed by using two types of software packages: “AccuRate Sustainability” for rating the energy efficiency of a residential building design, and “PVSYST” for the solar PV power system design. AccuRate Sustainability is used to calculate the annual heating and cooling load, and PVSYST is used to evaluate the power production from the rooftop PV system. The analysis correlates the electrical energy generated from the PV panels to the change in the heating and cooling load due to roof shading. Different roof orientations, roof inclinations, and roof insulation, as well as PV dwelling floor areas, are considered in this study. The analysis shows that the drop in energy efficiency due to the shaded area of the roof by PV panels is very small compared to the energy generated by these panels. The analysis also shows that, with an increasing number of floors in the dwelling, the effect of shading by PV panels on thermal performance becomes negligible. The results show that insensitivity of the annual heating and cooling load to the thermal resistance of rooftop solar systems is only because the total thermal resistance is dominated by roof insulation.


2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 741-749
Author(s):  
Sajad Abasnezhad ◽  
Nima Soltani ◽  
Elin Markarian ◽  
Hamed Aghabalayi Fakhim ◽  
Hamed Khezerloo

2014 ◽  
Vol 525 ◽  
pp. 408-411
Author(s):  
Min Seon Jang ◽  
Gyeong Seok Choi ◽  
Jae Sik Kang ◽  
Yumin Kim

Window film is generally attached the glazing in buildings to improve the thermal performance of the window system by addressing a range of problems such as indoor temperature rise, indoor temperature imbalance, degraded heating and cooling load due to excessive influx of solar radiation. To evaluate the performance of window films, window films are attached to 3mm or 6mm clear glass. However, window films are generally used on existing window systems for reducing the annual energy consumption. Therefore it is necessary to evaluate the performance of window films depending on the performance of glazing such as clear double glazing or low-e double glazing. Thus the purpose of this study is to analyze the performance of window systems when window film is attached. As a result, in the case of applying window films for reducing the SHGC of buildings, it is necessary to select window films suitable for the configuration and performance of the glazing to be installed, considering the SHGC of the entire glazing system.


KIEAE Journal ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-36
Author(s):  
Nam-Young Jeong ◽  
Ji-Young Lee ◽  
Young Tae Chae

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