Passive building energy savings: A review of building envelope components

Sadineni, Suresh B.; Madala, Srikanth; Boehm, Robert F.

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2011.07.014

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“…Such devices are used for decentralized generation and supply of energy from renewables, or for conversion of resources at higher overall efficiencies [4]. The term passive on the other hand refers to buildings where the design of construction and shape of the building itself, as opposed to its servicing, play major roles in capturing, storing and distributing wind and solar energy, normally with the aim of displacing fossil fuels for space conditioning and lighting [5][6][7].…”

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confidence: 99%

Climate adaptive building shells: State-of-the-art and future challenges

Loonen

Trcka

Cóstola

et al. 2013

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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Climate adaptive building shells: State-of-the-art and future challenges

Loonen

Trcka

Cóstola

et al. 2013

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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“…Besides the traditional building materials, there are also advanced technologies for the building envelope such as advanced wall systems (passive solar walls, lightweight concrete walls, ventilated or double skin walls, walls with latent heat storage), advanced glazing (aerogel glazing, vacuum glazing, switchable reflective glazing, suspended particle devices film, holographic optical elements) and roof systems (ventilated and micro-ventilated roofs, solar reflective/cool roofs, green roofs, photovoltaic roofs) [15]. The traditional thermal insulation materials are vulnerable to humidity and perforations.…”

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Energy efficiency in the Romanian residential building stock: A literature review

Mureşan

Attia²

2017

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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The building sector in Romania is dominated by residential buildings that are old and have poor thermal performance. As a member of the European Union, Romania has to reach the objectives imposed by the Directive 2009/28/EC and to fulfill the requirements of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) by year 2020. The implementation of these concepts in Romania consists into thermal rehabilitation of the existing buildings, applying the latest thermal performance characteristics in new buildings and establishing the certificate of energy performance. The following paper presents the literature review of the state of building energy performance in Romania. The purpose of the literature review analysis is to provide a snapshot on the existing building energy efficiency and future perspectives on the implementation of high performance buildings in Romania. The implementation of concepts such as the Passive House (PH), nearly Zero Energy Buildings (nZEB) and Net Zero Energy Buildings (NZEB) are discussed in order to help the decision makers to achieve the 2020 objectives. The results of the reviewed publications and case studies are classified under three categories: policy and regulations, technology and feasibility. Finally a holistic perspective on the Strength, Weakness, Opportunities and Threats (SWOTs) of energy efficiency in Romania's residential building sector is presented.

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“…Different means of reducing overall building energy consumption also have been explored by several researchers [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]. Yang and Li [13] performed a quantitative analysis to reduce cooling load using thermal mass and night ventilation using the building time constant information.…”

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Passive energy management through increased thermal capacitance

Carpenter

Mago

Luck

et al. 2014

Energy and Buildings

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Energy usage within the world is increasing at a drastic rate. Buildings currently consume a major amount of the total energy used within the United States, and most of this energy usage supports heating and cooling. This demand shows that new passive energy management systems are needed. The use of Increased Thermal Capacitance (ITC) is proposed as a new passive energy management system. To increase thermal capacitance, a piping system is either added into a building's walls or ceiling. In this paper, a building with ITC added is compared to a similar building without ITC using the simulation program TRNSYS. Along with a comparison between the walls and ceiling, several parameters are analyzed for their effect on the performance of the ITC. ITC was found to be effective especially when located in the ceiling, with the location, specific heat and tank size being the most important factors. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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Passive building energy savings: A review of building envelope components

Cited by 1,086 publications

References 75 publications

Climate adaptive building shells: State-of-the-art and future challenges

Climate adaptive building shells: State-of-the-art and future challenges

Energy efficiency in the Romanian residential building stock: A literature review

Passive energy management through increased thermal capacitance

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