Active Building Envelope for Energy Self-Sufficiency: Design, Optimization, and Experimental Validation

实现能源自给自足的主动建筑围护结构：设计、优化和实验验证

• 批准号: 0333568
• 负责人: Achille Messac
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-09-15 至 2009-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0333568&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Active; Building; Envelope; Energy; Self

Space conditioning currently accounts for over 50% of the energy used in the average American home, the bulk of this energy is needed to compensate for energy losses that occur through the building envelope. This research effort deals with design, optimize, and experimentally validation of a novel Active Building Envelope (ABE) system for use in housing. The ABE-system will actively use solar energy to pump heat in the direction opposite to the passive heat conduction direction. This approach will effectively eliminate the need to supply other energy sources to thermally condition houses. This multi-functional ABE-system involves the integration of energy receptor, transducer, storage, control, and distribution technologies into the building envelope. The research will take three years to complete and will involve three Phases. The first Phase will involve the development of representative ABE-system engineering and economic computational models, and the subsequent optimization of these models using the physical programming optimization method. A complete house will be considered. During the second Phase, we propose to validate the modeling and optimization results through testing of an ABE-system prototype. During the third Phase we propose a comprehensive evaluation of the ABE-system modeling, optimization, and testing effort. The research will proceed in close collaboration with Solid State Cooling Systems Inc., our industry partner, who has made a commitment to provide significant support.Intellectual Merit: Conventional strategies to mitigate thermal losses or gains in building-envelopes rely on passive insulation approaches. Separate heating and cooling systems then compensate for energy losses or gains that do occur. The proposed ABE-technology will actively tackle the heat dissipation problem at its source (i.e. the envelope). This approach is completely new. The outcome of our researchwill establish the intellectual framework needed to accomplish economically viable ABE-systems applicable to both existing and new American houses. The impact ABE-technology will have on American society and economy is very broad. For example, ABE-technology will reduce US foreign energy dependence; will reduce heating andcooling costs for American families; and will reduce environmental pressures associated with the exploitation of fossil energy sources. ABE-technology will also accommodate more accurate control over indoor thermal comfort levels, which will result in more healthy and productive environments.

空间空调目前占美国普通家庭使用的能源的50%以上，这些能源的大部分需要补偿通过建筑围护结构发生的能量损失。本研究旨在设计、优化及实验验证一种新型住宅主动围护结构系统。ABE系统将主动使用太阳能以与被动热传导方向相反的方向泵送热量。这种方法将有效地消除对为热调节房屋提供其他能源的需要。这一多功能ABE系统将能量接收器、传感器、存储、控制和分配技术集成到建筑物外壳中。这项研究将需要三年时间完成，并将分三个阶段进行。第一阶段将涉及代表ABE系统工程和经济计算模型的开发，以及随后使用物理规划优化方法对这些模型进行优化。一个完整的房子将被考虑。在第二阶段，我们建议通过ABE系统原型的测试来验证建模和优化结果。在第三阶段，我们提出了ABE系统建模，优化和测试工作的综合评估。该研究将与固态冷却系统公司密切合作，我们的行业合作伙伴承诺提供重要的支持。智力优势：传统的战略，以减轻热损失或增益在建筑围护结构依赖于被动绝缘的方法。单独的加热和冷却系统然后补偿确实发生的能量损失或增益。拟议的ABE技术将积极解决其源头（即外壳）的散热问题。这种方法是全新的。我们的研究成果将建立所需的知识框架，以实现经济上可行的ABE系统适用于现有的和新的美国房屋。ABE技术对美国社会和经济的影响是非常广泛的。例如，ABE技术将减少美国对外国能源的依赖;将减少美国家庭的供暖和制冷成本;并将减少与开采化石能源有关的环境压力。ABE技术还将更精确地控制室内热舒适度，从而创造更健康、更高效的环境。