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http://dx.doi.org/10.7836/kses.2020.40.1.025

A Study on Energy Saving Performance by Night Purge Cooling with Pressurized Under Floor Air Distribution System  

Yoon, Seong-Hoon (Department of Architectural Engineering, Namseoul University)
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Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society / v.40, no.1, 2020 , pp. 25-33 More about this Journal
Abstract
It has been reported about the energy saving performance of UFAD(under floor air distribution) system and NPC(night purge cooling) system respectively which are applied for commercial buildings. However, when two systems are used at the same time, the effect of heat transfer from floor plenum to slab may vary depending on the operating conditions of NPC. In this study, cooling energy demands were analyzed for building models with UFAD and NPC by using TRNSYS 17 program. UFAD was applied as a cooling system of the base building model, and the cooling energy demands were compared for 64 cases in which the operating time, supply airflow rate, and outdoor air temperature(To) of NPC. As a result, it was confirmed that the cooling energy demands were reduced to 30 ~ 80% level compared to UFAD alone, and in particular, the energy demand was reduced in proportion to the supply airflow rate or the operating time while To was 16 ~ 20℃. However, when To was 22℃, the increase in the supply airflow rate or the operating time results in a disadvantage in terms of cooling energy demands. In addition, the cooling energy demands for UFAD+NPC model were analyzed by applying weather data from three regions with different average outdoor air temperatures. As a result, the cooling energy demand of operating NPC only when To was below 20℃ was reduced by 27% compared to that of operating NPC continuously for 8 hours.
Keywords
UFAD : Under floor air distribution system; NPC : Night purge cooling; CBAD : Ceiling based air distribution system; Energy demand;
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