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T1 Methodology applied to the evaluation of natural ventilation in residential building retrofits: A case study
A1 Meiss Rodríguez, Alberto José
A1 Padilla Marcos, Miguel Ángel
A1 Feijó Muñoz, Jesús
K1 Natural ventilation
K1 Building retrofit
K1 Indoor air quality
K1 Pressurization test
K1 33 Ciencias Tecnológicas
K1 6201 Arquitectura
AB 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.
PB MDPI
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/57416
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/57416
LA eng
NO Energies, 2017, vol. 10, n. 4, p. 456.
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 28-dic-2024