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Sponsors: by
Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of
Science and Technology and Quantum
Construction Technologies, Inc.
Description: Over the last
three decades development of energy conservation measures for residential
buildings have focused on measures that have been most applicable to colder
climates where heating requirements dominate the residential energy budget.
These measures while generally beneficial, do not address some of the energy
related building and system design issues important in the varied climates of
Oklahoma. Achieving the highest Energy StarÒ rating is a key aspect of the
Quantum’s marketing strategy. This proposal will address the building design
and system integration issues specific to residential buildings in both hot-dry
and hot-humid climates. The technology developed from this investigation will be
directly applicable to the significant energy related design issues currently
facing Quantum.
Over the last three decades development of energy
conservation measures for residential buildings have focused on measures that
have been most applicable to colder climates where heating requirements dominate
the residential energy budget. These measures while generally beneficial, do not
address some of the energy related building and system design issues important
in the varied climates of Oklahoma. Achieving
the highest Energy StarÒ
rating is a key aspect of the Quantum’s marketing strategy.
This proposal will address the building design and system integration
issues specific to residential buildings in both hot-dry and hot-humid climates.
The technology developed from this investigation will be directly
applicable to the significant energy related design issues currently facing
Quantum.
A Quantum prototypical
Structural Insulated Panel (SIP) house will be constructed and instrumented for
this study. The prototype will
provide baseline temperature, humidity and airspeed data.
Initially the data will be used to develop design procedures and
calculate critical design parameters that can be immediately applied by Quantum.
The data will be used later in the study to develop laboratory tests and
validate generalized correlations and procedures.
The
laboratory testing phase of the project will utilize previously developed
laboratories at OSU, previously developed experimental procedures and the field
data collected during the first phase of this project to develop fundamentally
based convective heat transfer correlations that are generally applicable to
cold air distribution systems, thus advancing the state of the art.
The project will also advance the state of the art
of building energy analysis in two key respects.
First, the measured data will extend the body of literature related to
cold jets in non-isothermal rooms. In
particular, the investigation of the novel cold air distribution system will
provide valuable information for model development and the characterization of
interzone air flow with various configurations of high velocity cold air
systems. Second, the study is
expected to provide fundamental and generally applicable design parameters and
correlations to the building science literature.
Keywords:
energy,
system design, building technology
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