LoginIn general, HVAC systems for clean room facility are required significant energy to maintain the required indoor environment. Due to high air change rates, reducing operating energy consumptions has been the critical issue.
IBPSA 2011 - Sydney, Australia
International Building Simulation Conference 2011, Sydney, Australia.
Contains 206 papers.
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Energy saving potentials of an 100% outdoor air system integrated with indirect and direct evaporative coolers for clean room | 2011 | English
Thermal comfort and EPB in residential building: a commented case study in Ravenna, Italy | 2011 | English
The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between Indoor Environmental Quality index (IEQ): thermal comfort index and indoor temperature trend in moderate thermal environments, in buildings that belong to the Class A with reference
Modeling a solar chimney for maximum solar irradiation and maximum airflow, for low latitude locations | 2011 | English
Numerous researches have shown the possibility to enhance indoor natural ventilation in buildings by using inclined solar chimneys, although most of them usually include determining an optimum tilt for the absorber, considering an inclination angl
Developing winter residential demand response strategies for electric space heating | 2011 | English
The objective of this paper is to present space heating strategies leading to a load reduction during critical periods on the grid but also taking into account the occupant thermal comfort in order to make them acceptable.
This paper presents the findings of an investigation of electricity consumption in mechanically cooled Nigerian office buildings.
A system for the comparison of tools for the simulation of water-based radiant heating and cooling systems | 2011 | English
Low temperature heating and high temperature cool-ing systems such as thermally activated building sys-tems (TABS) offer the chance to use low exergy sources, which can be very beneficial financially as well as ecologically when using renewable en
The Soccer World Cup in Qatar 2022 has started a discussion on thermal comfort in soccer stadia, particularly in hot and humid climates and their related energy consumption.
This study investigates the feasibility of utilizing natural ventilation through operable windows to provide ventilation and summer cooling for an existing university dormitory building in marine west coastal climate (warm summer and mild winter).
CFD modelling for swirl diffuser and its implications on air change effectiveness assessment to green star's IEQ-2 | 2011 | English
Swirl diffusers can create better air mixing to enhance indoor air quality and help achieve compliance with Green Star IEQ-2 through Air Change Effectiveness (ACE) measure but the lack of modelling guidelines gives rise to the use of various model
Model based exchange has the potential to improve the process of information exchange between different disciplines (Eastman, 2006), such as architect and engineer.
Case study of applying different energy use modeling methods to an existing building | 2011 | English
Various building energy use modeling methods have been applied to existing buildings in order to understand building energy performance and improve energy efficiency. There are widely used models based on physical principles and historical data.
Numerical analysis of the thermal comfort in a retrofitted family house using a PCM/air heat exchanger system | 2011 | English
This paper deals with the results of an investigation into the freecooling efficiency in a low energy building using a PCM/air heat exchanger coupled with the me-chanical ventilation.
A theoretical method to quickly identify multiple constant contaminant sources indoors by limited number of ideal sensors | 2011 | English
This study presents a theoretical method that can quickly and accurately identify the locations and strengths of multiple constant contaminant sources indoors by using a single or a limited number of ideal sensors.
This paper presents a novel methodology that aims at optimising energy flows and HVAC control in Sport and Recreation Buildings.
A net zero energy building in Italy: design studies to reach the net zero energy target | 2011 | English
The aim of this work is to model the energy consumption and the on-site production of an existing building, the Leaf House (LH), that was designed in order to be a Net Zero CO2 emission home.
This paper shows a new DSF modeling approach so-called a co-simulation of the heterogeneous systems.
Comparison of turbulence models in simulating key elements of outdoor wind environment around building complexes | 2011 | English
CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) simulation is the main research method for assessing the wind environment around building complexes.
To maintain good indoor air quality, this investigation proposes a prototype of an active breathing wall system, which is composed of a solar radiation absorption board, air heating cavity, porous filtration unit and fan device.
Because of the complexity and diversification of today’s HVAC systems, Fault Detection and Diagnosis (FDD) systems have become necessary to reduce maintenance cost and to provide building energy efficiency, but with a minimum of engineering cost.
This paper presents a Simulation Domain Model (SimModel) - a new interoperable XML-based data model for the building simulation domain.