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Optimization of thermal insulation to achieve energy savings in low energy house (refurbishment)
- Source :
- Energy Conversion and Management. 84:681-690
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2014.
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Abstract
- Due to the current environmental situation, saving energy and reducing CO 2 emission have become the leading drive in modern research. For buildings that require heating, one of the solutions is to optimize a thickness of their thermal insulation and thus improve energy efficiency and reduce energy needs. In this paper, for a small residential house in Serbia, an optimization in the thickness of its thermal insulation layer is investigated by using EnergyPlus software and Hooke–Jeeves direct search method. The embodied energy of thermal insulation is taken into account. The optimization is done for the entire life cycle of thermal insulation. The results show the optimal thickness of thermal insulation that yields the minimum primary energy consumption.
- Subjects :
- Engineering
Primary energy consumption
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
business.industry
Energy Engineering and Power Technology
Structural engineering
Low-energy house
Fuel Technology
Nuclear Energy and Engineering
Thermal insulation
Entire life cycle
Direct search
business
Process engineering
Embodied energy
Energy (signal processing)
Efficient energy use
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 01968904
- Volume :
- 84
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Energy Conversion and Management
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........f5f9b13719da03bf22185bcfaac39fb4
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2014.04.095