A Hot Disk thermal constant analyzer was used to obtain the thermal parameters of composite boards, solid wood floor, and ceramic tiles (CT). FLUENT software was used for the model establishment and the temperature field simulation, and the effects caused by different surface materials were analyzed. A 2D unsteady model was constructed to analyze floor surface temperature and indoor temperature fields in an enclosure space. Comparison of temperature fields caused by different materials showed that both steady indoor temperature and surface temperature of CT were the highest, which is due to its good thermal properties. Thermal conductivity and thermal capacity are the two main factors affecting floor thermal performance in the initial hours, while thermal conductivity is the key factor in the steady period. For the compared floor materials, CT and Sindora glabra (SG) are the optimal choices from the perspective of thermal performance, while composite boards are almost the same in thermal performance.
An office building located at Jinan equipped with ground-source heat pump (GSHP) system was selected as the research object. The GSHP system model was established using TRNSYS software. With the total energy consumption of the system as the objective function, several control strategies were proposed for the optimization work of water supply temperature at the load side of the heat pump unit. Firstly, a variable water temperature control strategy was adjusted according to the load ratio of the unit. In addition, the TRNSYS-GENOPT (TRNOPT) optimization module in TRNSYS was used to find the optimal water supply temperatures for different load ratios. After simulating and comparing the system’s energy consumption under the three control strategies, we found that the total annual energy consumption under the variable water supply temperature scheme is less than that under the constant water supply temperature scheme by 10,531.41 kWh. The energy saving ratio is about 5.7%. The simulation found that the total annual energy consumption under the optimized water supply temperature based on TRNOPT is lower than that under the variable water supply temperature scheme by 1072.04 kWh, and it is lower than that under the constant water supply temperature scheme by 11,603.45 kWh. The annual energy saving ratio of the system is about 6.3%. It is concluded that the optimized water supply temperature scheme based on TRNOPT has a better energy saving effect than the first two water supply temperature schemes.
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