Journal
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Volume 34, Issue 12, Pages 2697-2705Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2009.05.015
Keywords
Natural ventilation cooling potential (NVCP); Thermal Resistance Ventilation (TRV) model; Climate zone; Office; Strategic design
Funding
- Centre for Sino-European Sustainable Building Design and Construction
- Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology [2006BAJ02A09]
- EPSRC [EP/E040748/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/E040748/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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This paper presents an investigation of the natural ventilation cooling potential (NVCP) of office buildings in the five generally recognised climate zones in China using the Thermal Resistance Ventilation (TRV) model, which is a simplified, coupled, thermal and airflow model. The acceptable operative temperature for naturally conditioned space supplied by the ASHARE Standard 55-2004 has been used for the comfort temperature setting. Dynamic simulations for a typical office room in the five representative cities, which are Harbin, Beijing, Shanghai, Kunming and Guangzhou, have been carried out. The study demonstrates that the NVCP depends on the multiple impacts of climate, the building's thermal characteristics, internal gains, ventilation profiles and regimes. The work shows how the simplified method can be used to generate detailed, indoor, operative temperature data based on the various building conditions and control profiles which are used to investigate the NVCP at the strategic design stage. The simulation results presented in this paper can be used as a reference guideline for natural ventilation design in China. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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