Comparative Analysis on Load Characteristic of Intermittently Conditioned Buildings for Different Wall Insulation Forms

Liting Yuan, Zhiyi Wang, Yanyan Huang and Xiaolong Wang
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Liting Yuan: School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, China
Zhiyi Wang: School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, China
Yanyan Huang: School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, China
Xiaolong Wang: School of Thermal Engineering, Shandong Jianzhu University, Jinan 250101, China

Energies, 2020, vol. 13, issue 18, 1-15

Abstract: The Air-conditioning System (ACS), used in office buildings in the hot summer and cold winter zone of China, are always operate intermittently. The dynamic thermal behaviors of building walls with real climate conditions may be different from those with only the representative day’s climate conditions, due to the time varying nature of the climate, which will lead to the variation of the ACS loads. A numerical calculation was performed to analyze the effects of insulation form on heat behavior of external walls and ACS loads. The results indicate that cooling transmission load with inside insulation reaches its maximum value when the solar-air temperature in daytime is the highest, while that with outside insulation occurs at the time when the air temperature at night is the highest during summer. Heating transmission load for the wall with external and internal insulation both peaks in the day with lowest mean outdoor temperature during the last non-working period. Inside insulation can be considered a better way to reduce the peak load, peak-valley load difference and energy consumption.

Keywords: intermittent operation; insulation form; peak load; peak-valley load difference; energy consumption (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: 2020
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