Review of methods for climatic zoning for building energy efficiency programs

Walsh, Angélica; Cóstola, D Daniel; Labaki, Lucila Chebel

doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2016.11.046

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“…The first energy efficiency of building regulations emerged in the 1950s, in France, Switzerland and Germany, due to the concerns of the government entities to decrease the high heating energy consumption of buildings [2]. Rating initiatives emerged in the 1990s in United Kingdom, Germany and Canada with the objective to assess the energy efficiency and CO2 emissions from buildings [3][4][5].…”

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Methodological Approach for the Development of a Simplified Residential Building Energy Estimation in Temperate Climate

2019

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Energy ratings and minimum requirements for thermal envelopes and heating and air conditioning systems emerged as tools to minimize energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, improve energy efficiency and promote greater transparency with regard to energy use in buildings. In Latin America, not all countries have building energy efficiency regulations, many of them are voluntary and more than 80% of the existing initiatives are simplified methods and are centered in energy demand analysis and the compliance of admissible values for different indicators. However, the application of these tools, even when simplified, is reduced. The main objective is the development of a simplified calculation method for the estimation of the energy consumption of multifamily housing buildings. To do this, an energy model was created based on the real use and occupation of a reference building, its thermal envelope and its thermal system’s performance. This model was simulated for 42 locations, characterized by their climatic conditions, whilst also considering the thermal transmittance fulfilment. The correlation between energy consumption and the climatic conditions is the base of the proposed method. The input data are seven climatic characteristics. Due to the sociocultural context of Latin America, the proposed method is estimated to have more possible acceptance and applications than other more complex methods, increasing the rate of buildings with an energy assessment. The results have demonstrated a high reliability in the prediction of the statistical models created, as the determination coefficient (R2) is nearly 1 for cooling and heating consumption.

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Methodological Approach for the Development of a Simplified Residential Building Energy Estimation in Temperate Climate

2019

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“…The traditional method of displaying the territorial variability in the climatic loads and the impacts is the allocation of the climatic regions, in particular, the creation of territorial zoning maps [1,2,[10][11]. The zoning maps of the statistical characteristics and the design values of the minimum (winter) air temperature for thermal insulation of the buildings in Ukraine have been developed [1].…”

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“…A new method of territorial zoning based on a set of climatic indicators that affect the energy efficiency of buildings has been proposed [11]. An analysis of the climatic parameters and the existing methods of territorial zoning for assessing the energy efficiency of buildings has been provided [10]. It proved that a lack of consensus on the climate zoning methodology indicates the need for further research.…”

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Method of Administrative-Territorial Zoning of the Design Parameters of Air Temperature

Pashynskyi¹,

Pushkar²,

Skrynnik³

2019

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This study proposes a method of administrative-territorial zoning of the major design parameters of the air temperature. For each administrative region, the design values of the mean temperature of the year, the temperatures in the coldest and the warmest month, and the temperature of the coldest and the warmest day are set. These parameters can be applied during the building and in the structural design of the entire region. The study was conducted in Ukraine, however, is applicable to all countries.

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“…The popular configurations used in solar tracking are bi-axial (elevation and azimuth) and tilt-roll (polar) Fig. 1, which produce additional energy gain over fixed-tilt devices (Eke and Senturk, 2012;Salsabila et al, 2013;Walsh et al, 2017). The accuracy of tracking using electrical or electronic devices makes active trackers appreciated.…”

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A Real-Time Optimization Approach to the Efficiency of a Photovoltaic System by a Hybrid Tracking Technique using LabVIEW

Rezoug¹,

Chenni²

2018

American Journal of Applied Sciences

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Among the lines of research on improving the efficiency of a photovoltaic panel, sun tracking techniques occupy a large part. In this article, an extension of Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench (LabVIEW); LabVIEW Interface For Arduino (LIFA) is used. It allows the driving of an Arduino board from LabVIEW, on which a collaboration technique between two categories of pursuit is developed: The first is sensory and the second is pre-programmed. This hybrid two-axis technique is characterized by impulse control strategist with pre-programmed control and dual sensory correction. The results reveal that the hybrid tracking system gave an additional energy gain of about 36% compared to a fixed photovoltaic panel system. Thus, it has practically a percentage increase of 2 and 2.3% respectively to the two techniques used.

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Review of methods for climatic zoning for building energy efficiency programs

Cited by 92 publications

References 56 publications

Methodological Approach for the Development of a Simplified Residential Building Energy Estimation in Temperate Climate

Methodological Approach for the Development of a Simplified Residential Building Energy Estimation in Temperate Climate

Method of Administrative-Territorial Zoning of the Design Parameters of Air Temperature

A Real-Time Optimization Approach to the Efficiency of a Photovoltaic System by a Hybrid Tracking Technique using LabVIEW

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