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Re: [EnergyPlus_Support] Overhanging / Canopy like roof.



It would be useful to know if you are employing any other passive measures for reducing cooling load parallely. In my limited experience, I have seen that a certain combination of passive measures would lead to a particular level of reduction in cooling load. To clarify, say there are 3 measures, A, B and C. When you employ measure A, you may get a large reduction and small reduction for B and C. Next time, if you employ B first, you may again see a large reduction followed by small ones for A and C. So, it is not just the particular passive measure you are employing at a certain step, rather it is also useful to consider what other measures have been already put in place to reduce loads.

regards,

asit


On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 8:38 AM, Chandan Sharma chandangsharma@xxxxxxxxx [EnergyPlus_Support] <EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 

How does the heat gain from the walls and internal load, including infiltration/ventilation etc. look like?



On 8/27/2014 7:34 AM, Chandan Sharma wrote:
Benjamin,

I agree that shading with an air gap above the roof should reduce the cooling load and also agree that expect more than ~2.54% reduction in cooling load which is seen here for 6" air gap. May be someone else can enlighten us with the results.

Thanks,
Chandan

On 8/26/2014 11:48 PM, benjamin_khuong@xxxxxxxxx [EnergyPlus_Support] wrote:
 

Chandan,


Yes I did just that, I ran simulations with an air gap of 0, 6", 1', 1'6", and 2'. As the overhang went higher the annual cooling load decreased. I'm assuming that is due to the loss of shading over the south side of the house.

But shouldn't there be a bigger difference from having no air gap to a 6" air gap.
With no Air gap the roof of the home is being directly heated by the sun but with a 6" air gap the roof of the entire roof of the home is being shaded. 





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