Very tight houses often have problems with indoor air quality
and may have ACH .1 or less. General US practice targets about .35 ACH as
adequate for ventilation without any other provisions, but you should consider
your volume to occupancy ratio and recommended minimum ventilation per
occupant. This is a application that typically requires a dedicated
ventilation design.
Ned
Lyon, P.E. (MA)
Staff Consultant
SIMPSON
GUMPERTZ & HEGER
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From:
EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of ylinenergy
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 9:06 AM
To: EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [EnergyPlus_Support] air infiltration questions
Hello,
I wonder if anyone can help me with my Energy+ model.
I modelled a small low energy bungalow house in the UK climate with floor area
around 100m2. The building fabric has very high performance (U value <0.13).
There are totally three zones in the model. I put ideal loads system in the
model, and the setpoints for heating is 19C. The results I got it much higher
than I expected. It is around 350kwh/m2 for heating loads. I think I must have
done something wrong in the model.
I put 0.25ac/h as design flow rate in the Zone infiltration section. I assumed
0.25ac/h is reasonable value for an air tight house. However, if I changed the
figure to 0.5, the heating loads jumped to 780kwh/m2. If I changed the figure
to 0, the heating loads is just 26kwh/m2. Can anyone suggest the reasonable
ac/h value for a well air tight house? I assumed the input figures in Design
Flow rate here is the infiltration rate through air leakage and not consider
the natural ventilation. Is that right?
I did free running the model, and the average indoor temperature is about 10C,
more less the right value, I think.
Can anybody suggest what might be wrong here?
Many thanks in advance.
Best Regards,
Yuan
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