Experimental Evaluation and Energy Consumption Simulation of Different Energy-Saving Strategies for Building Envelope
Other Title
以實驗及建築耗能模擬軟體評估建築外殼節能措施之效益
Journal
Journal of the Chinese Institute of Civil and Hydraulic Engineering
Journal Volume
30
Journal Issue
2
Pages
93-105
Date Issued
2018
Author(s)
Jung-Shu Tang
Abstract
Reducing energy use for space cooling in buildings is a key measure to energy conservation and environmental protection in places having hot and humid weather, such as Taiwan. In this research, we use two identical experimental houses with the climate monitoring system to estimate the energy consumption of air-conditioning system with different building envelope strategies (the U-value of the overall wall and roof, the external and internal shading device, the window opening area ratio, etc.). We also adopted the energy simulation free software eQUEST, which is based on the well-known DOE-2 program, to estimate the energy saving of different strategies. Actual building and operating data were fed to eQUEST to calculate the instantaneous electric consumption due to air conditioning and the comparison between measured and predicted electric consumption is presented to understand the accuracy of the energy simulation program. © 2018, Chinese Institute of Civil and Hydraulic Engineering. All right reserved.
Subjects
Building envelope; Energy saving; Insulation; Shading
Other Subjects
Air conditioning; Computer aided software engineering; Computer software; Energy utilization; Historic preservation; Insulation; Solar buildings; Building envelopes; Electric consumption; Energy conservation and environmental protections; Energy simulation programs; Energy-saving strategies; Experimental evaluation; Experimental house; Shading; Energy conservation
Type
journal article