1. An experimental study of thermal performance of the radiant ceiling cooling in office building in Thailand.
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Aryal, Ashmin, Chaiwiwatworakul, Pipat, and Chirarattananon, Surapong
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OFFICE buildings , *CEILINGS , *BUILDING envelopes , *OFFICE environment , *HEAT recovery , *ELECTRICAL energy , *NATURAL ventilation - Abstract
• Thermal performance of the radiant ceiling cooling was assessed for intermittent operation in tropical office environment. • Insulated envelope and outdoor air heat recovery improved both indoor comfort and energy saving of the radiant ceiling system. • The local people would achieve their neutral sensation by the radiant ceiling cooling for more than 95% of the office hours. • The radiant system saved the electrical energy up to 40% opposed to the conventional mixed-air system. This paper investigated the radiant ceiling cooling in office buildings in a tropical hot humid climate. Full-scale experiments were conducted in an outdoor laboratory chamber to observe the indoor thermal conditions and the envelope heat gain from the intermittent operation of the installed radiant chilled panels (RCP) coupled with an outdoor air unit (OAU). The radiant system was also modeled by using a simulation software namely Transient System Simulation Software (TRNSYS), and the calculation results from the model were compared to the experimental observations. In the simulation part, the validated TRNSYS model was adopted to assess the radiant system performance in a typical office environment under the four schemes of combinations of the technology options for the OAU and the building envelope. The perceived comfort from the radiant cooling was assessed based on the thermal sensation of the local subjects acclimatized to hot humid climate. The energy consumption of the radiant cooling was also apprised as opposed to the conventional mixed-air system. The simulation results presented an insight into the importance of the exhaust air heat recovery and the envelope insulation on energy saving and human comfort improvement for the radiant cooling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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