Measurements of Energy Consumption and Environment Quality of High-Speed Railway Stations in China

Bin Qian, Tao Yu, Haiquan Bi and Bo Lei
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Bin Qian: School of Mechanical Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China
Tao Yu: School of Mechanical Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China
Haiquan Bi: School of Mechanical Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China
Bo Lei: School of Mechanical Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China

Energies, 2019, vol. 13, issue 1, 1-22

Abstract: In recent years, the energy performance of public buildings has attracted substantial attention due to the significant energy-saving potential. As a semi-open high-space building, the high-speed railway station is obviously different from other public buildings and even traditional stations in terms of energy consumption and internal environment. This paper investigates the current energy consumption situation and environmental quality of 15 high-speed railway passenger stations in China. Results show that the energy consumption of the high-speed railway station is between 117–470 kWh/(m 2 ·a). The energy consumption of the station is related to the area and the passenger flow. The energy use of the station using district heating is higher than that of the station without district heating in the same region. The higher glazing ratio induces good natural lighting in the station, but the uniformity of the lighting in the station is not good. The acceptable temperature range of passengers in winter is larger than that in summer. The average air change rate of the high-speed railway station is 3.2 h −1 in winter and 1.8 h −1 in summer, which is the main reason of high energy consumption of the HVAC (Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning) system in this kind of building.

Keywords: high-speed railway station; energy consumption; lighting environment; thermal environment; air infiltration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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