Control of heating systems in residential buildings: Current practice

Peeters, Leen; Veken, Jeroen Van der; Hens, Hugo; Helsen, Lieve; D’haeseleer, William

doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2008.02.016

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“…However, Price and Sherman [35] concluded that respondents were not familiar enough with mechanical ventilation systems to meaningfully respond to questions about them. This to some extent agrees with the other studies which showed that people lack understanding of how to use systems properly for controlling the indoor environment and experience problems when operating them [8,[10][11][12][13][14][15].…”

Section: Control Over the Indoor Environmentsupporting

confidence: 81%

“…Besides the above-mentioned factors, the behaviour of building occupants is also influenced by their knowledge of and experience with using building systems for controlling the indoor environment. Peeters et al [10] found that building occupants did not know how to operate thermostatic radiator valves and as a result overheating often occurred in households in Belgium. Also in China it was observed that people did not understand well how the thermostatic radiator valves function and used them as they would manually controlled valves [8].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Questionnaire survey on factors influencing comfort with indoor environmental quality in Danish housing

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Andersen

Wargocki

2012

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Section: Control Over the Indoor Environmentsupporting

confidence: 81%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Questionnaire survey on factors influencing comfort with indoor environmental quality in Danish housing

Frontczak

Andersen

Wargocki

2012

Building and Environment

172

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“…Domestic space heating has been dominated by fossil fuels, efficiency improvement in space heating will thus reduce greenhouse gas emissions [4,7,[11][12][13]. Heating system efficiency depends upon the thermal performance of the building envelope, occupancy [14] and climate, as well as the performance the system's component parts [15][16][17][18][19][20]. Whilst, in most heating systems well-functioning energy efficient components are installed these components may not be (i) optimally adjusted to the particular variations in energy load encountered and (ii) set-up to optimally communicate effectively with one another [9,15,18,[20][21][22].…”

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Energy savings across EU domestic building stock by optimizing hydraulic distribution in domestic space heating systems

Ahern¹,

Norton²

2015

Energy and Buildings

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a b s t r a c tThe objective of this work is to quantify the resultant savings across the EU from the optimization of existing system components in domestic space heating distribution systems to maintain comfort levels. Heat energy savings are shown to range from 1% to 19% depending on dwelling type, age, location and initial specific heat energy consumption. Total potential savings across the sector amount 22.6 Mtoe, a reduction of 7.3%; 53% of these from a reduction in pumping power required by heating distribution systems and 47% of these from a reduction in the heat energy consumed by heating systems. The carbon abatement potential is estimated to be 496 million tonnes of CO 2 equivalent. Regulatory changes to the domestic replacement and maintenance industry are required for these low-cost, high impact and highly applicable energy saving measures to be adopted more extensively.

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“…If no buffer tank is installed, oversizing leads to frequent start and stop cycles of the boiler. A fully physically consistent approach would evaluate this phenomenon using dynamic simulations, as done in Peeters et al [20], but this is beyond the scope of the present contribution. For the sake of the simplicity, the following assumptions are made :…”

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Environmental and economic performance of heating systems for energy-efficient dwellings: Case of passive and low-energy single-family houses

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In order to reduce the energy consumption of the building stock, a major trend is to drastically reduce the space-heating (SH) needs by improving the thermal performance of the envelope. In general, this measure is combined with efficient heating systems to minimize the delivered energy and greenhouse gas emissions. Nevertheless, these better systems are often more expensive so that the extra-investment could be hardly recovered for small-scale energy consumption. The main objective of the article is to show how equilibria between cost-effectiveness and environmental performance of heating systems are changed when small SH needs are considered (i.e. for passive and low-energy houses). The scope is limited to new single-family dwellings. Furthermore, the passive house standard provides means of simplifying the SH * Corresponding author

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Control of heating systems in residential buildings: Current practice

Cited by 112 publications

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Questionnaire survey on factors influencing comfort with indoor environmental quality in Danish housing

Questionnaire survey on factors influencing comfort with indoor environmental quality in Danish housing

Energy savings across EU domestic building stock by optimizing hydraulic distribution in domestic space heating systems

Environmental and economic performance of heating systems for energy-efficient dwellings: Case of passive and low-energy single-family houses

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