Describes computer program for the prediction of the air infiltration load in small residential buildings. The model represents an oil-fired furnace, a smoke pipe with barometric damper, a chimney and a non-partitioned building, with leakage openings in the building envelope. The model can be used to predict the air change rate of a small house under various combinations of indoor/outdoor temperature, wind-speed, wind direction and operation of an oil fired furnace. The program has been tested against air change rates measured by the tracer gas technique on a one-storey house under various indoor/outdoor climatic conditions. Finds for this particular test houseagreement between calculated and measured air change rates is within 25%.
Programmed computer model of air infiltration in small residential buildings with oil furnace.
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Year:
1978
Bibliographic info:
Proceedings 3rd International Symposium "The use of computers for environmental engineering related to buildings" Banff. Alberta 10-12 May 1978. National Research Council Canada. p637-644