Free-running temperature and potential for free cooling by ventilation: A case study |
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Authors: | Christian Inard Jens PfafferottChristian Ghiaus |
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Affiliation: | a LEPTIAB, University of La Rochelle, Av. Michel Crépeau, 17042 La Rochelle, France b Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Heidenhofstr. 2, 79110 Freiburg, Germany c INSA-Lyon, CETHIL CNRS, UMR5008, Bât. S. Carnot, 9 rue de la Physique, 69621 Villeurbanne, France |
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Abstract: | Free-cooling by ventilation is one of the most energy efficient techniques for cooling. When ventilation is used for cooling, variable airflow rates should to be used in order to achieve comfortable room temperatures and to minimize the energy demand for mechanical ventilation. Thus, free-cooling, requires, obviously, the existence of a potential for cooling and needs control mechanisms for the airflow. In this study, the free cooling potential by ventilation for office buildings is evaluated by the free-running temperature. The free-running temperature approach is based on the energy balance of heat gains and losses. It is adapted to evaluate the potential for free cooling by ventilation of office buildings for which the gains through the walls are negligible as compared to the internal and solar gains. The free-running temperature of each office room considers solar and internal heat gains, outdoor temperature, indoor temperatures and ventilation air flow rates. The approach is applied to 14 office rooms in a passively cooled office building in Germany and is used to estimate the potential and to evaluate the total energy saving by free cooling by ventilation. The good fit between monitoring data and calculation procedure proves that the free cooling potential can be accurately estimated by using the difference between the comfort limits, i.e. the target value of the indoor temperature, and the free-running temperature. |
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Keywords: | Office buildings Passive-cooling Thermal comfort Free-running temperature Ventilation |
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