Indoor Environment and Energy Performance of Office Buildings Equipped with a Low Temperature Heating / High Temperature Cooling System

Dušan Petráš; Michal Krajčík; Jozef Bugáň; Emília Ďurišová

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.899.36

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Indoor Environment and Energy Performance of Office Buildings Equipped with a Low Temperature Heating / High Temperature Cooling System

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Energy performance and indoor environment were investigated in two modern office buildings equipped by a low temperature heating and high temperature cooling system. Both buildings have the facade made of glass. In the first building, radiant panels are suspended under the ceiling in order to create comfortable conditions, natural gas boilers are the installed in order to generate heat and chillers are used to generate cool. The second building has heat pumps installed to provide the building with heat/cool and capillary pipes are embedded in the plaster on the ceiling surface to emit the heat/cool into the occupied space. The energy performance was calculated in accordance with the set of CEN standards for energy certification and is presented in the form of energy certificates. Thermal comfort and indoor air quality were experimentally studied by long-term and short-term measurements and through questionnaires filled in by the occupants themselves. The study has shown that the low temperature heating/high temperature cooling system has the potential to create a comfortable indoor environment at low energy consumption, but the ability of the heating/cooling systems to do so is closely related to the appropriate control of the systems.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volume 899)

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February 2014

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Dušan Petráš, Michal Krajčík*, Jozef Bugáň, Emília Ďurišová

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Energy Performance of Building, Evaluation of Indoor Environment, High Temperature Cooling, Low Temperature Heating

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