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Research Article

Transferring heat among building zones through a room-temperature water loop—Influence of climate and occupancy level

Alessandro Maccarini1( ), Göran Hultmark2, Alireza Afshari1, Niels C. Bergsøe1, Anders Vorre2
Aalborg University, Danish Building Research Institute, Denmark
Lindab A/S, Denmark
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Abstract

This article aims to investigate the influence of climate conditions and occupancy levels on the energy savings potential of a novel hydronic circuit configuration in active beam systems. This configuration consists of a room-temperature water loop, which delivers water at a temperature of 22 °C to all the zones in a building. An inherent characteristic of the circuit is that excess heat can be transferred from warm to cold zones when simultaneous need of heating and cooling occurs in the building. This process leads to a reduction of the annual energy use when comparing the novel configuration with traditional ones. The amount of energy reduction depends on the diversity of thermal loads applied to different zones in the building, which are mainly due to climate conditions and occupancy. Therefore, to capture the influence of these two factors on the heat transfer potential of the water loop, a parametric analysis was performed. Three climate locations and five occupancy levels were considered in a model of the system developed in Dymola. Simulation results show that heat transfer between zones leads to annual energy savings of between 7% and 27%, depending on the scenario considered. In absolute terms, the energy savings were between 1.6 kWh/m2 and 6.4 kWh/m2.

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building energy simulationparametric analysisactive beamsModelicalow-exergy systems

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Building Simulation
Volume 10 Issue 5,
October 2017
Pages 697-710
DOI: 10.1007/s12273-017-0358-z
Cite this article:
Maccarini A, Hultmark G, Afshari A, et al. Transferring heat among building zones through a room-temperature water loop—Influence of climate and occupancy level. Building Simulation, 2017, 10(5): 697-710. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12273-017-0358-z

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Received: 08 November 2016
Revised: 17 January 2017
Accepted: 09 February 2017
Published: 15 March 2017
© Tsinghua University Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2017
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