Residential Total Energy System Testing at the Canadian Centre for Housing Technology

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A version of this document is published in / Une version de ce document se trouve dans: Proceedings of PWR2007, ASME Power, San Antonio, TX., USA, Juy 17-19, 2007, pp. 1-10 The material in this document is covered by the provisions of the Copyright Act, by Canadian laws, policies, regulations and international agreements. Such provisions serve to identify the information source and, in specific instances, to prohibit reproduction of materials without written permission. For more information visit http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/showtdm/cs/C-42Les renseignements dans ce document sont protégés par la Loi sur le droit d'auteur, par les lois, les politiques et les règlements du Canada et des accords internationaux. Ces dispositions permettent d'identifier la source de l'information et, dans certains cas, d'interdire la copie de documents sans permission écrite. Pour obtenir de plus amples renseignements : http://lois.justice.gc.ca/fr/showtdm/cs/C-42 RESIDENTIAL TOTAL ENERGY SYSTEM INSTALLATION AT THE CANADIAN CENTRE FOR HOUSING TECHNOLOGY ABSTRACTDistributed cogeneration in single households may provide a viable alternative to the construction of new central power plants in the coming years. A key issue in residential cogeneration is how to size and integrate the required technologies in order to satisfy the total energy needs of the household, consisting of electricity, domestic hot water, space heating and space cooling. An interesting pathway to a more sustainable future involves the use of the earth surrounding the home as both a source and a sink for energy, especially if it enables the recycling of summertime waste heat from the generator.

Cloud-based Smart Dual Fuel Switching System (SDFSS) of Hybrid Residential HVAC System for Simultaneous Reduction of Energy Cost and Greenhouse Gas Emission

“…The first house is called House A (house to the left in The Canadian Centre for Housing Technology (CCHT) provides the means to develop and validate innovative residential products before full field trials in occupied houses to accelerate their acceptance in the marketplace. Single-detached units are used to measure the real-life performance of technologies and strategies using side-by-side comparison in an environment that reflects contemporary residential buildings in Canada [164]. In [165], the house's heating demand curves were developed using TRNSYS models.…”

“…and CCHT [164,165]) were modelled in TRNSYS to predict their thermal behaviour. These models were created using hourly data for a one year of 8760 hours.…”

Investigation of Energy and Environmental Potentials of a Renewable Trigeneration System in a Residential Application

“…Micro-cogeneration systems (with an electric output lower than 50 kW el according to [1]) are emerging as a suitable approach to reduce energy consumption and pollutant emissions by offsetting the need for centrally-generated grid electricity, enhancing energy security and avoiding transmission/distribution losses . In recent years, significant advances have been achieved in the development, design, and optimization of micro CHP systems such as micro-turbine [6,7], internal combustion engine [8][9][10][11][12][13], organic Rankine cycle [6,14,15], Stirling engine [8,[16][17][18], fuel cell [7,[19][20][21][22][23][24][25] and photovoltaic thermal (PVT) [8,19,26].…”