LoginThe study of a hotel to be built under the mild climate of Madeira Island, Portugal, is presented. The program DOE-2.1E was used for the thermal load simulation, using as climatic input a Typical Year file constructed for this case.
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This article presents the study done on an individual house located in Macon, France.
In France, for historical and demographic reasons, many educational buildings must be retrofitted in the next years.However, various studies showed that measurements of energy savings, and improvement of comfort, are rarely applied in the retrofit
Local control of ventilation in large buildings is considered to be a main issue in energy savings regarding the huge energy losses that are usually induced by such large volumes.
In this paper the performance of a desiccant cooling system was evaluated. The system comprises a desiccant wheel in tandem with a thermal wheel with evaporative coolers in both air supply and return air streams before the thermal wheel.
The aim of this work is to observe the flow reversal that can appear at the time of interaction of hot and cold boundary layers in transient mixed convection in a vertical pipe.The instationary character of the flow is due to the application at th
Several high schools in the south east of France are subject to a major work of renovation. These works need to take into account the problem of summer comfort for a better well-being and intellectual performance of students.
A model of Venetian blind associated simple or a double glazing is proposed in this article.
Climatization systems in operating theatres must provide a comfortable and healthy environment for the patients and the surgical team; in fact, there are a multitude of factors to be considering and analyzing for avoiding the evidence of many prob
EECCAC is an EU funded project, where twelve participants (National Energy Agencies, Manufacturers, University laboratories and Electric utilities) from eight countries gathered to identify the most suitable measures to achieve market transformati
Commissioning plays an essential role for ensuring the quality of any HVAC system.
The balance between thermal comfort and air quality in healthcare facilities to optimize the Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) is the main aim of this paper. The present paper will present this balance from the viewpoint of the air conditioning design.
Airflow characteristics in ventilated and air-conditioned spaces play an important role to attain comfort and hygiene conditions.
Se analizan las posibilidades que se han visto tienen el empleo de los acumuladores de cambio de fase en la climatización, destacándose las ventajas que se han encontrado, tales como: la posible eliminación de las torres y condensadores evaporativ
La percepción del ambiente térmico no depende únicamente de los parámetros ambientales, sino que es un fenómeno que incluye muchos más factores del entorno interior y exterior, del sujeto que percibe estos parámetros.
The application of system identification techniques to the energy performance of buildings and building components requires a very high level of knowledge of physical and mathematical processes.
The paper presents the results of the measurements and integrated simulation of the energy demand and air exchange in one of the flats located in a 5-storey building located in urban area. The experiment was carried out during 3 weeks of March.
The purpose of this work was to determine U and g coefficients of the external wall with transparent insulation under real external climatic conditions.
A number of differences between the experimental results and the calculated thermal behaviour results of the timber frame walls have been obtained during the investigation carried out at summer operation conditions.
System identification allows the development of a dynamic model of a process. Such techniques have been applied also to the processes describing the thermal performance of buildings.