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CASE STUDIES IN THERMAL ENGINEERING
Volume 50, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.csite.2023.103433
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Thermal transmittance (U-value); Building envelope; In-situ measurements; Heat flux meter (HFM); Infrared thermography (IRT)
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Accurate analysis of building energy performance requires reliable measurement methods. This study used dynamic simulations to verify the accuracy and reproducibility of commonly used field measurement methods and found that the HFM and IRTi methods exhibited high accuracy and reproducibility in evaluating the thermal performance of building envelopes.
Accurate analysis of building energy performance necessitates methodologies that can diagnose the thermal performance of a building's envelope. The building envelope contains various uncertainties and poses difficulties in verifying the measurement results, making it crucial to ensure the reliability of the measurement method. This study used dynamic simulations to verify the accuracy and reproducibility of commonly used field measurement methods. The simulation data were applied to the heat flux meter (HFM) and infrared thermography (IRT) methods to calculate the thermal transmittance of the building envelope and confirm their suitability as a field measurement method. According to the accuracy verification results, the HFM and indoor IRT (IRTi) methods, which are less affected by the external environment, evaluated the actual thermal performance of the wall close to the theoretical value with average relative errors of 3.3% and 4.2%, respectively. In the reproducibility evaluation, the HFM method exhibited similar levels of deviation over time. Additionally, to reduce the deviation in the reproducibility of the thermal transmittance derived from the IRT method, the average method was applied for data analysis, leading to a decrease in the reproducibility deviation from 36.5% to 13.3% for IRTi and from 107.3% to 71.8% for IRT outdoors (IRTo).
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