Analysing natural ventilation to reduce the cooling energy consumption and the fuel poverty of social dwellings in coastal zones

Bienvenido-Huertas, David; Sánchez-García, Daniel; Rubio-Bellido, Carlos

doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.115845

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“…Though all-day natural ventilation contributes to reducing energy consumption, the overall uncomfortable periods increase. By contrast, exclusive use of air-conditioning could guarantee 100% hours of thermal comfort, but it is unacceptable for most families with high electricity bills [152]. Therefore, the mixed-mode based on the categories from EN 16798-1:2019 is recommended to save energy without sacrificing thermal comfort [152].…”

Section: Natural Ventilation (Nv)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…By contrast, exclusive use of air-conditioning could guarantee 100% hours of thermal comfort, but it is unacceptable for most families with high electricity bills [152]. Therefore, the mixed-mode based on the categories from EN 16798-1:2019 is recommended to save energy without sacrificing thermal comfort [152]. Moreover, internet of things (IoT) based or artificial intelligence (AI) based control can provide optimized solutions for mixed-mode ventilation to balance the NV and MV.…”

Section: Natural Ventilation (Nv)mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Interaction between Thermal Comfort, Indoor Air Quality and Ventilation Energy Consumption of Educational Buildings: A Comprehensive Review

Jia¹,

Han²,

Chen

et al. 2021

Buildings

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Thermal comfort and indoor air quality (IAQ) of educational buildings can affect students’ academic performance and well-being and are closely related to ventilation energy consumption. Demands of the indoor environmental quality within the classroom generally vary with the education levels and result in ventilation energy consumption accounting for a considerable proportion of the total energy use in bulk educational buildings. Its huge energy-saving potential is attracting worldwide attention from scholars and governments. Therefore, appropriate operation strategies of ventilation systems should be adopted to effectively reduce energy consumption without sacrificing thermal comfort and IAQ. However, the absence of relevant standards and guidelines for designing a quality classroom environment considering the special features of educational buildings remains an important research question. This study conducts a comprehensive review to determine research gaps and identify future directions for the interaction between thermal comfort, IAQ and ventilation energy consumption for educational buildings. The review results show that: (1) The thermal comfort prediction model should consider the influences of genders, ages and socioeconomic backgrounds; (2) The mixed-mode ventilation coupling the natural and mechanical approaches is preferred given its advantage of lower energy consumption and improved thermal comfort, but its control strategies need further exploration; (3) Optimizing passive design parameters of buildings (e.g., window to wall ratios, window orientations and sun shading installations) can significantly reduce the ventilation demands while maintaining indoor thermal comfort; (4) More studies are required for investigating thermal comfort in educational buildings during the heating period; and (5) IAQ of university buildings clearly requires further studies, especially on bacterial and fungal aerosol pollutants, for a more comprehensive assessment of the built environment.

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Section: Natural Ventilation (Nv)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Natural Ventilation (Nv)mentioning

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Interaction between Thermal Comfort, Indoor Air Quality and Ventilation Energy Consumption of Educational Buildings: A Comprehensive Review

Jia¹,

Han²,

Chen

et al. 2021

Buildings

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“… Reddy et al (2000) define EP as the absence of sufficient choice in accessing adequate ( Adebayo, 2022b ), affordable ( Awosusi et al, 2022 ), reliable ( Fareed et al, 2022 ), high-quality, safe, and environmentally benign energy services to support economic and human development. Socioeconomic development is greatly enhanced when having clean, inexpensive, constant, and modern energy resources and is also connected the achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs), specifically the SDGs no hunger, poverty, good health, gender equality, well-being, weather action, and land existence (see Ntaintasis et al, 2019 ; Bienvenido-Huertas et al, 2020 ; Awaworyi Churchill and Smyth, 2021a ). Considering how expensive clean and modern fuels are, coupled with the low buying energy in third-world countries, such advantages have affected the government efforts in expediting families’ transformation from using conventional to modern fuels for lightening and cooking ( Adebayo et al, 2022b ).…”

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Assessing the Role of Green Finance and Education as New Determinants to Mitigate Energy Poverty

Hou

Khan

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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Energy poverty (EP) is a problem that affects developed and developing economies, and its mitigation is of great significance to social welfare. EP affects Latin American countries, and policymakers have recently attempted to address this issue, particularly in the aftermath of the recent economic crisis. It is essential to measure and evaluate EP to implement strategies and policies effectively. Using a panel quantile regression approach, we investigate the heterogeneous impact of green finance, renewable energy (RE), and energy efficiency (EE) on EP for 33 Latin American countries from 2000 to 2018. Furthermore, certain associated control variables are incorporated into our model to avoid an omitted variable bias. According to empirical results, the impact of independent variables on EP is heterogeneous. Specifically, green finance is an essential source of alleviating EP, and it has a significant positive effect across all quantiles, but it is especially strong in the middle quantiles. RE and EE significantly mitigate EP, with the strongest effects occurring at higher quantiles. By including green finance, RE, and EE as the main explanatory determinants of EP, the findings urge policymakers in Latin American countries to design a comprehensive energy conservation policy to minimize the effects of massive EP.

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“…The adaptive comfort model used by Bienvenido-Huertas et al [25] was established in three ranges according to the metabolic rates of the occupants. The study used a comfort temperature with an amplitude range due to the user's adaptability in the selected location.…”

Section: Thermal Comfortmentioning

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Natural Ventilation Strategy in a Social Housing with Sub-humid Warm Climate Based on Thermal Comfort

Vázquez-Torres

Gómez-Amador

Bojórquez-Morales

et al. 2021

Environmental and Climate Technologies

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Natural ventilation was analysed in a low-income dwelling to control open or closed windows according to a dynamic simulation process in sub-humid warm climate. A selective algorithm to control natural ventilation was determined in an annual period per hour with the following findings: a) an algorithm to select open or closed windows was determined, b) comfort hours per year were evidenced with open, closed windows and selective algorithm to operate natural ventilation, and c) the schedule and periods of ventilation control were presented. Meteonorm® data were used on an hourly basis in Design Builder® simulations and the Meteorological System data based on 30 years of measurements were used to determine the comfort range. Conclusions: the potential benefits to be obtained by applying this ventilation strategy with a selective algorithm are observed in sub-humid warm climate.

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Analysing natural ventilation to reduce the cooling energy consumption and the fuel poverty of social dwellings in coastal zones

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Cited by 47 publications

References 79 publications

Interaction between Thermal Comfort, Indoor Air Quality and Ventilation Energy Consumption of Educational Buildings: A Comprehensive Review

Interaction between Thermal Comfort, Indoor Air Quality and Ventilation Energy Consumption of Educational Buildings: A Comprehensive Review

Assessing the Role of Green Finance and Education as New Determinants to Mitigate Energy Poverty

Natural Ventilation Strategy in a Social Housing with Sub-humid Warm Climate Based on Thermal Comfort

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