Coupled simulation of BES-CFD and performance assessment of energy recovery ventilation system for office model |
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Authors: | Yunqing Fan T Hayashi and K Ito |
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Abstract: | Thermal comfort and indoor air quality as well as the energy efficiency have been recognized as essential parts of sustainable
building assessment. This work aims to analyze the energy conservation of the heat recovery ventilator and to investigate
the effect of the air supply arrangement. Three types of mixing ventilation are chosen for the analysis of coupling ANSYS/FLUENT
(a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) program) with TRNSYS (a building energy simulation (BES) software). The adoption of
mutual complementary boundary conditions for CFD and BES provides more accurate and complete information of indoor air distribution
and thermal performance in buildings. A typical office-space situated in a middle storey is chosen for the analysis. The office-space
is equipped with air-conditioners on the ceiling. A heat recovery ventilation system directly supplies fresh air to the office
space. Its thermal performance and indoor air distribution predicted by the coupled method are compared under three types
of ventilation system. When the supply and return openings for ventilation are arranged on the ceiling, there is no critical
difference between the predictions of the coupled method and BES on the energy consumption of HVAC because PID control is
adopted for the supply air temperature of the occupied zone. On the other hand, approximately 21% discrepancy for the heat
recovery estimation in the maximum between the simulated results of coupled method and BES-only can be obviously found in
the floor air supply ventilation case. The discrepancy emphasizes the necessity of coupling CFD with BES when vertical air
temperature gradient exists. Our future target is to estimate the optimum design of heat recovery ventilation system to control
CO2 concentration by adjusting flow rate of fresh air. |
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Keywords: | building energy simulation computational fluid dynamics (CFD) FLUENT TRNSYS energy saving |
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