Radiant Floor Cooling Systems: A Critical Review of Modeling Methods
Radiant floor heating systems have become a reference technology, but their use for cooling purposes has proven inconvenient in many applications due to their reduced cooling capacity and condensation issues. Nonetheless, potentialities and drawbacks of radiant floor cooling systems have been freque...
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| author | Bizzarri, Marco Conti, Paolo Glicksman, Leon R. Schito, Eva Testi, Daniele |
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| description | Radiant floor heating systems have become a reference technology, but their use for cooling purposes has proven inconvenient in many applications due to their reduced cooling capacity and condensation issues. Nonetheless, potentialities and drawbacks of radiant floor cooling systems have been frequently addressed and simulated, given the large potential advantages of employing a single emissive system for all seasons. This paper aims to provide a comprehensive review of the modeling methods for radiant floor cooling systems proposed in scientific papers and also used in simulation software and technical standards. Models are classified according to their characterizing features, and the distinctive contributions of each method are discussed. Additionally, the modeling of the most relevant phenomena affecting floor performance is further discussed. The review revealed the presence of two main modeling classes, one only focusing on the floor’s conductive heat transfer and the other integrating active floor analysis within the building’s energy model of the thermal zone. Despite the presence of many modeling methods that are able to consider the most important effects in the radiant cooling system operation, not all the phenomena present in a practical application are fully described. Therefore, there is an ongoing need for more comprehensive, possibly easily characterizable, modeling approaches. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1520762024-01-29T19:52:21Z Radiant Floor Cooling Systems: A Critical Review of Modeling Methods Bizzarri, Marco Conti, Paolo Glicksman, Leon R. Schito, Eva Testi, Daniele Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture Radiant floor heating systems have become a reference technology, but their use for cooling purposes has proven inconvenient in many applications due to their reduced cooling capacity and condensation issues. Nonetheless, potentialities and drawbacks of radiant floor cooling systems have been frequently addressed and simulated, given the large potential advantages of employing a single emissive system for all seasons. This paper aims to provide a comprehensive review of the modeling methods for radiant floor cooling systems proposed in scientific papers and also used in simulation software and technical standards. Models are classified according to their characterizing features, and the distinctive contributions of each method are discussed. Additionally, the modeling of the most relevant phenomena affecting floor performance is further discussed. The review revealed the presence of two main modeling classes, one only focusing on the floor’s conductive heat transfer and the other integrating active floor analysis within the building’s energy model of the thermal zone. Despite the presence of many modeling methods that are able to consider the most important effects in the radiant cooling system operation, not all the phenomena present in a practical application are fully described. Therefore, there is an ongoing need for more comprehensive, possibly easily characterizable, modeling approaches. 2023-09-11T17:05:55Z 2023-09-11T17:05:55Z 2023-08-24 2023-09-08T12:44:34Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/152076 Energies 16 (17): 6160 (2023) PUBLISHER_CC http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en16176160 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute |
| spellingShingle | Bizzarri, Marco Conti, Paolo Glicksman, Leon R. Schito, Eva Testi, Daniele Radiant Floor Cooling Systems: A Critical Review of Modeling Methods |
| title | Radiant Floor Cooling Systems: A Critical Review of Modeling Methods |
| title_full | Radiant Floor Cooling Systems: A Critical Review of Modeling Methods |
| title_fullStr | Radiant Floor Cooling Systems: A Critical Review of Modeling Methods |
| title_full_unstemmed | Radiant Floor Cooling Systems: A Critical Review of Modeling Methods |
| title_short | Radiant Floor Cooling Systems: A Critical Review of Modeling Methods |
| title_sort | radiant floor cooling systems a critical review of modeling methods |
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