Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Blondeau, P
• Spérandio, M
• Allard, F

Titel

Night ventilation for building cooling in summer

Ist Teil von

• Solar energy, 1997-11, Vol.61 (5), p.327-335

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: Elsevier Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

1997

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This paper presents a two-step analysis of night ventilation as a way of cooling office buildings and providing comfort in summer. Experimental data first allows us to discuss some factors which affect the performance of the technique, to show that significant comfort improvement may be obtained in “well-designed” rooms, and to investigate the energy removal from the building by defining a potential energy efficiency index. Through the use of numerical simulations, we then deal with the useful cooling energy which is offered by night ventilation in the experimental configuration and show that much care has to be taken when the technique is intended to be used in the frame of a mixed-mode cooling system.