City Gas Consumption Analysis per 1m2 according to Exclusive Dwelling Area in Residential Buildings - Focused on case of Ulsan -

  • Yu, YeongJin (School of Architectural Engineering, University of Ulsan) ;
  • Kim, Sangho (School of Architectural Engineering, University of Ulsan) ;
  • Yang, SungPil (School of Architectural Engineering, University of Ulsan) ;
  • Son, Kiyoung (School of Architectural Engineering, University of Ulsan)
  • Published : 2015.10.11

Abstract

Currently, effective energy management of buildings is necessary because of accelerated global climate change and resource crisis. Especially, in the case of South Korea, city gas consumption occupies 11.8% of the total energy and 39.6% is residential use among them. Therefore, for reducing the city gas consumption, the effectiveness of residential use is needed. To address this issue, the objective of this study is to analyze the difference of the city gas consumption according to the space arrangement in the apartment building. To achieve this objective, an apartment complex having over 1,000 households was selected then, according to the space arrangement such as south-east and south-west, the data of 59.97m2 and 84.96m2 were analyzed by using statistics method. As a result, in 59.97m2 and 84.96m2, the total city gas amount in 2012 showed that 9.2% and 8.4% were more increased at south-west than southeast respectively. In the future, the findings of this study can be used to develop the prediction model of city gas consumption in apartment building.

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Acknowledgement

This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology(2014R1A1A1004288)