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Impact of climate change on nearly zero-energy dwelling in temperate climate: Time-integrated discomfort, HVAC energy performance, and GHG emissions
Rahif, Ramin; Norouziasas, Alireza; Elnagar, Essam et al.
2022In Building and Environment, 223, p. 109397
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Keywords :
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
Elnagar, 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
Romain, Anne-Claude  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Sphères
Fettweis, Xavier ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de géographie > Climatologie et Topoclimatologie
Attia, Shady  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Urban and Environmental Engineering
Language :
English
Title :
Impact of climate change on nearly zero-energy dwelling in temperate climate: Time-integrated discomfort, HVAC energy performance, and GHG emissions
Publication date :
30 September 2022
Journal title :
Building and Environment
ISSN :
0360-1323
eISSN :
1873-684X
Publisher :
Elsevier BV
Volume :
223
Pages :
109397
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Name of the research project :
[OCCuPANt] Impacts of climate change on buildings in Belgium during summer
Funders :
ULiège - Université de Liège
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