Global warming; Heating Energy Use; Cooling Energy Use; Primary Energy Use; Overheating; Overcooling
Abstract :
[en] Global warming is widely recognized to affect the built environment in several ways. This paper projects the current and future climate scenarios on a nearly zero-energy dwelling in Brussels. Initially, a time-integrated discomfort assessment is carried out for the base case without any active cooling system. It is found that overheating risk will increase up to 528%, whereas the overcooling risk will decrease up to 32% by the end of the century. It is also resulted that the overheating risk will overlap the overcooling risk by 2090s under high emission scenarios. Subsequently, two commonly applied HVAC strategies are considered, including a gas-fired boiler + an air conditioner (S01) and a reversible air-to-water heat pump (S02). In general, S02 shows ∼6–13% and 15–27% less HVAC primary energy use and GHG emissions compared to S01, respectively. By conducting the sensitivity analysis, it is found that the choice of the HVAC strategy, heating set-point, and cooling set-point are among the most influential parameters determining the HVAC primary energy use. Finally, some future recommendations are provided for practice and future research.
Disciplines :
Energy
Author, co-author :
Rahif, Ramin ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Urban and Environmental Engineering
Norouziasas, Alireza ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Urban and Environmental Engineering
El Nagar, Essam ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Aérospatiale et Mécanique (A&M)
Doutreloup, Sébastien ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de géographie > Climatologie et Topoclimatologie
Pourkiaei, Seyed Mohsen; Université de Liège - ULiège > Sphères
Amaripadath, Deepak ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Urban and Environmental Engineering
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