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Título
Methodology applied to the evaluation of natural ventilation in residential building retrofits: A case study
Año del Documento
2017
Editorial
MDPI
Descripción
Producción Científica
Documento Fuente
Energies, 2017, vol. 10, n. 4, p. 456.
Resumen
The primary objective of this paper is to present the use of a steady model that is able to qualify and quantify available natural ventilation flows applied to the energy retrofitting of urban residential districts. In terms of air quality, natural ventilation presents more efficient solutions compared to active systems. This method combines numeric simulations, through the utilization of Ansys Fluent R15.0® and Engineering Equation Solver EES®, with on-site pressurization tests. Testing consists of the application of the seasonal pressure gradient on the building’s envelope and the calculation of the ventilation flows in three climatic representative conditions (summer, winter, and annual average). Through the implementation of this methodology to existing buildings it is possible to evaluate the influence of the built environment, as well as key parameters (relative height of the dwelling, number of vertical ventilation ducts, and airtightness of windows) of available natural ventilation.
Materias Unesco
33 Ciencias Tecnológicas
6201 Arquitectura
Palabras Clave
Natural ventilation
Building retrofit
Indoor air quality
Pressurization test
Revisión por pares
SI
Patrocinador
CITyFiED project, which has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration activities under the Grant Agreement number 609129
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© 2017 The Author(s)
Idioma
eng
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