Effect of the night ventilation rate on the indoor environment and air-conditioning load while considering wall inner surface moisture transfer

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 80, Issue , 2014, Pages 366-374

  Wang, Yingying ^a   Liu, Yanfeng ^a   Wang, Dengjia ^a   Liu, Jiaping ^a  

^a XI'AN UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Air conditioning load; Heat and moisture transfer; Indoor environment; Night ventilation rate

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; LATENT HEAT; MOISTURE CONTROL; THERMAL COMFORT; THERMAL LOAD; DESORPTION; MOISTURE; VENTILATION;

ABSORPTION-DESORPTION; DESORPTION PROCESS; HEAT AND MOISTURE TRANSFER; HOT HUMID CLIMATE; INDOOR AIR TEMPERATURE; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; MOISTURE ABSORPTION; NIGHT VENTILATION; INNER SURFACES; AIR CONDITIONING LOAD;

VENTILATION; AIR CONDITIONING;

EID: 84903155716     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2014.05.051     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. M. Santamouris, A. Sfakianaki, and K. Pavlou On the efficiency of night ventilation techniques applied to residential buildings Energy and Buildings 42 8 2010 1309 1313
2. V. Geros, M. Santamouris, A. Tsangrasoulis, and G. Guarracino Experimental evaluation of night ventilation phenomena Energy and Buildings 29 2 1999 141 154
3. Alain Bastide, Philippe Lauret, Francois Garde, and Harry Boyer Building energy efficiency and thermal comfort in tropical climates presentation of a numerical approach for predicting the percentage of well-ventilated living spaces in buildings using natural ventilation Energy and Buildings 38 9 2006 1093 1103 (Pubitemid 43880361)
4. N. Cardinale, M. Micucci, and F. Ruggiero Analysis of energy saving using natural ventilation in a traditional Italian building Energy and Buildings 35 2 2003 153 159 (Pubitemid 35412335)
5. Yu-Min Kim, Soo-Young Kim, Sung-Woo Shin, and Jang-Yeul Sohn Contribution of natural ventilation in a double skin envelop to heating load reduction in winter Building and Environment 44 11 2009 2236 2244
6. Zhaojun Wang, Lingli Yi, and Fusheng Gao Night ventilation control strategies in office buildings Solar Energy 83 10 2009 1902 1913
7. G. Carrilho da Grac-a, Q. Chen, L.R. Glicksman, and L.K. Norford Simulation of wind-driven ventilative cooling systems for an apartment building in Beijing and Shanghai Energy and Buildings 34 1 2002 1 11 (Pubitemid 33005925)
8. A. Sreshthaputra Building design and operation for improving thermal comfort in naturally ventilated buildings in a hot-humid climate Ph.D. Dissertation 2003 Texas A&M University College Station, TX
9. Liping Wang, and Nyuk Hien Wong The impacts of ventilation strategies and facade on indoor thermal environment for naturally ventilated residential buildings in Singapore Building and Environment 42 12 2007 4006 4015
10. N. Artmann, H. Manz, and P. Heiselberg Parameter study on performance of building cooling by night-time ventilation Renewable Energy 33 12 2008 2589 2598
11. Tetsu Kubota, Doris Toe Hooi Chyee, and Supian Ahmad The effects of night ventilation technique on indoor thermal environment for residential buildings in hot-humid climate of Malaysia Energy and Buildings 41 8 2009 829 839
12. P. Wolkoff, and S.K. Kjaergaard The dichotomy of relative humidity on indoor air quality Environment International 33 6 2007 850 857 (Pubitemid 46963381)
13. G.W. Brundrett A review of the factors influencing electrostatic shocks in the offices Journal of Electrostatics 2 4 1977 295 315 (Pubitemid 8551749)
14. J. Paasi, S. Nurmi, R. Vuorinen, S. Strengell, and P. Maijala Performance of ESD protective materials at low relative humidity Journal of Electrostatics 51-52 2001 429 434 (Pubitemid 32511658)
15. B.J. Hart Life cycle and reproduction of house-dust mites: environmental factors influencing mite populations Allergy 5 48 1998 13 17 (Pubitemid 29104884)
16. P.C.D. Milly The coupled transport of water and heat in a vertical soil column under atmospheric excitation Ph.D. Thesis 1980 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA
17. H. Janssen, J. Carmeliet, and H. Hens The influence of soil moisture in the unsaturated zone on the heat loss from buildings via the ground Journal of Thermal Envelope and Building Science 25 4 2002 275 298 (Pubitemid 34566721)
18. L.-O. Nilsson Moisture transport in cementitious materials - theory and some experimental results Knud Hjgaard Conference on Advanced Cement-based Materials-research and Teaching Technical University of Denmark 2004
19. J.R. Philip, and D.A. De Vries Moisture movement in porous materials under temperature gradients Transactions, American Geophysical Union 38 2 1957 222 232
20. Fernando Branco, Antonio Tadeu, and Nuno Simoes Heat conduction across double brick walls via BEM Building and Environment 39 1 2004 51 58 (Pubitemid 37343373)
21. H. Akbari, D. Samano, A. Mertol, F. Bauman, and R. Kammerud The effect of variations in convective coefficient on thermal energy storage in buildings: Part 1 - interior partition walls Energy and Buildings 9 1986 195 211 (Pubitemid 17477937)
22. EN ISO 13791 Thermal Performance of Buildings - Internal Temperatures in Summer of a Room without Mechanical Cooling - General Criteria and Calculation Procedures 2004 European Standard, CEN Brussels
23. S. Chandra, and A.A. Kerestecioglu Heat transfer in naturally ventilated rooms: data from full scale measurements ASHRAE Transformation 90 1 1984 211 224
24. G. Clark Passive cooling system J. Cook, Passive Cooling 1989 MIT Press USA, Massachusetts, Cambridge 347 538
25. B. Givoni Performance and applicability of passive and low-energy cooling systems Energy and Buildings 17 1991 177 199
26. N. Artmann, R.L. Jensen, H. Manz, and P. Heiselberg Experimental investigation of heat transfer during night-time ventilation Energy and Buildings 42 2010 366 374
27. American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Engineers Handbook of Fundamentals 1981 ASHRAE Inc. New York, NY
28. T. Kusuda Indoor humidity calculation ASHRAE Transactions 2 1983 728 738
29. Leming Lian, Lineng Li, Jiazheng Wu, and Yufei Tan Engineering Thermodynamics 2001 China Architecture and Building Press Beijing
30. Shuzhen Zhou, Ruyi Zhang, and Zhao Zhang Climatology and Meteorology 2002 High Education Press Beijing
31. P. Ruut, and C. Rode Common Exercise 1 - Case 0A and 0B Revised IEA, Annex 41, Task 1 Modeling Common Exercise 2004
32. P. Ruut, and C. Rode Common Exercise 1 "Realistic" Case IEA, Annex 41, Task 1 Modeling Common Exercise 2005
33. C. Rode, P. Ruut, and M. Woloszyn Simulation tests in whole building heat and moisture transfer August 26-31, Montreal, Canada Proceeding of the third International Building Physics/Engineering Conference 2006 527 534
34. T. Bednar, and C. Hagentoft Analytical solution for moisture buffering effect validation exercises for simulation tools, in: Nordic Symposium on Building Physics Reykjavik, June 2005 13 15
35. Kuishan Li, Zhang Xu, and Han Xing Experimental research of water vapor permeability through building materials Journal of Building Materials 12 3 2009 288 291