Commercial heating and cooling loads component analysis
Commercial heating and cooling loads component analysis
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商业热负荷和冷负荷成分分析
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1999
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E. Franconi
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Jeffrey R. Huang;E. Franconi
This study uses computer simulations of 120 commercial building prototypes to quantify the contributions of building components such as roofs, walls, windows, infiltration, outside air, lighting, equipment, and people to the aggregate heating and cooling loads in U.S. commercial buildings, and the efficiencies of typical commercial heating and cooling systems in meeting these loads. The prototypical buildings are based on previous LBNL work, and were refined following an extensive review of existing commercial building prototypes developed in 17 previous engineering studies. A novel procedure was developed to extract the component loads on a hourly basis from DOE-2 simulations. The results are presented as split pie charts, first at the national level, and then by building type, region, and vintage. The largest contributors to heating loads are found to be windows, walls, and infiltration, and the largest contributors to cooling loads to be lighting, solar gain, and equipment. " Free heating " from lights, equipment, occupants, and solar gain displace half of the heating load in commercial buildings, but " free cooling " from outside air and heat loss through the building shell has a much smaller effect. The concept of System and Plant Factors is used to quantify the net efficiencies of air-handling systems in meeting building loads, and of central plants in providing the energy needed for heating and cooling. System Factors in heating can vary from 0.12 in hospitals with constant-volume systems and 100% outside air to slightly over 1.00 in small offices due to heat gain from fans. System Factors for cooling can vary from less than 0.50 in old large offices with reheat systems to over 1.00 for small buildings due to the free cooling of economizer cycles. Plant Factors are typically 0.60-0.70 for boilers, and 3.50-4.80 for chillers. When the parasitic energy use of fans and pumps, and a source-to-site multiplier of 3 for electricity are both taken into account, the Net Plant Factors drop to 0.29-0.57 for heating, and 0.56-0.89 for cooling. The overall source efficiency of the space conditioning system in commercial buildings taking into account both System and Plant Factors is 0.33 for heating and 0.57 for cooling.