Climate impacts on extreme energy consumption of different types of buildings.

Exploring changes of building energy consumption and its relationships with climate can provide basis for energy-saving and carbon emission reduction. Heating and cooling energy consumption of different types of buildings during 1981-2010 in Tianjin city, was simulated by using TRNSYS software. Dail...

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Main Authors: Mingcai Li, Jun Shi, Jun Guo, Jingfu Cao, Jide Niu, Mingming Xiong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4414602?pdf=render
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author Mingcai Li
Jun Shi
Jun Guo
Jingfu Cao
Jide Niu
Mingming Xiong
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Jun Shi
Jun Guo
Jingfu Cao
Jide Niu
Mingming Xiong
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description Exploring changes of building energy consumption and its relationships with climate can provide basis for energy-saving and carbon emission reduction. Heating and cooling energy consumption of different types of buildings during 1981-2010 in Tianjin city, was simulated by using TRNSYS software. Daily or hourly extreme energy consumption was determined by percentile methods, and the climate impact on extreme energy consumption was analyzed. The results showed that days of extreme heating consumption showed apparent decrease during the recent 30 years for residential and large venue buildings, whereas days of extreme cooling consumption increased in large venue building. No significant variations were found for the days of extreme energy consumption for commercial building, although a decreasing trend in extreme heating energy consumption. Daily extreme energy consumption for large venue building had no relationship with climate parameters, whereas extreme energy consumption for commercial and residential buildings was related to various climate parameters. Further multiple regression analysis suggested heating energy consumption for commercial building was affected by maximum temperature, dry bulb temperature, solar radiation and minimum temperature, which together can explain 71.5 % of the variation of the daily extreme heating energy consumption. The daily extreme cooling energy consumption for commercial building was only related to the wet bulb temperature (R2= 0.382). The daily extreme heating energy consumption for residential building was affected by 4 climate parameters, but the dry bulb temperature had the main impact. The impacts of climate on hourly extreme heating energy consumption has a 1-3 hour delay in all three types of buildings, but no delay was found in the impacts of climate on hourly extreme cooling energy consumption for the selected buildings.
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spelling doaj.art-72b564bdbc6d445e855e207cf4bd44d82022-12-21T19:50:00ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032015-01-01104e012441310.1371/journal.pone.0124413Climate impacts on extreme energy consumption of different types of buildings.Mingcai LiJun ShiJun GuoJingfu CaoJide NiuMingming XiongExploring changes of building energy consumption and its relationships with climate can provide basis for energy-saving and carbon emission reduction. Heating and cooling energy consumption of different types of buildings during 1981-2010 in Tianjin city, was simulated by using TRNSYS software. Daily or hourly extreme energy consumption was determined by percentile methods, and the climate impact on extreme energy consumption was analyzed. The results showed that days of extreme heating consumption showed apparent decrease during the recent 30 years for residential and large venue buildings, whereas days of extreme cooling consumption increased in large venue building. No significant variations were found for the days of extreme energy consumption for commercial building, although a decreasing trend in extreme heating energy consumption. Daily extreme energy consumption for large venue building had no relationship with climate parameters, whereas extreme energy consumption for commercial and residential buildings was related to various climate parameters. Further multiple regression analysis suggested heating energy consumption for commercial building was affected by maximum temperature, dry bulb temperature, solar radiation and minimum temperature, which together can explain 71.5 % of the variation of the daily extreme heating energy consumption. The daily extreme cooling energy consumption for commercial building was only related to the wet bulb temperature (R2= 0.382). The daily extreme heating energy consumption for residential building was affected by 4 climate parameters, but the dry bulb temperature had the main impact. The impacts of climate on hourly extreme heating energy consumption has a 1-3 hour delay in all three types of buildings, but no delay was found in the impacts of climate on hourly extreme cooling energy consumption for the selected buildings.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4414602?pdf=render
spellingShingle Mingcai Li
Jun Shi
Jun Guo
Jingfu Cao
Jide Niu
Mingming Xiong
Climate impacts on extreme energy consumption of different types of buildings.
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title Climate impacts on extreme energy consumption of different types of buildings.
title_full Climate impacts on extreme energy consumption of different types of buildings.
title_fullStr Climate impacts on extreme energy consumption of different types of buildings.
title_full_unstemmed Climate impacts on extreme energy consumption of different types of buildings.
title_short Climate impacts on extreme energy consumption of different types of buildings.
title_sort climate impacts on extreme energy consumption of different types of buildings
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