Estudo do comportamento térmico de edifícios de habitação segundo o RCCTE e o REH

Com a melhoria das condições de vida verificada nas últimas décadas em Portugal e no mundo, tem-se assistido a um importante desenvolvimento dos atributos funcionais dos edifícios, onde o conforto térmico assume um papel importante, é nesse sentido que a presente dissertação aborda a área do Desempenho Térmico de Edifícios, mais precisamente os do sector residencial. Esta dissertação dividiu-se em três grandes partes: inicialmente é feito um enquadramento teórico do tema, em seguida faz-se a apresentação das metodologias de cálculo e, por último, a apresentação do caso de estudo e análise dos resultados. Procura-se analisar a situação energética no sector residencial, dando particular ênfase às causas e medidas correctivas a aplicar para evitar o aumento do consumo de energia. Também são abordadas as metodologias presentes na Legislação Portuguesa em vigor, e nas novas propostas que espera-se que entrem em vigor a 1 de Dezembro de 2013. Sendo que o principal objectivo desta dissertação é o estudo da nova proposta legislativa e apresentar um documento que procure efectuar uma comparação detalhada entre o DL 80/2006, de 4 de Abril e o DL 118/20013, de 20 de Agosto e sobretudo referir quais as implicações ao nível das soluções construtivas adoptadas e da certificação energética. Após esta analise, é apresentado um caso de estudo que consiste num edifício de habitação unifamiliar que será alvo da aplicação destes dois documentos. Por último é apresentada uma análise dos resultados comparando a classe energética conseguida pelo edifício através das duas metodologias de cálculo.

Previsão e definição de perfis na gestão dos recursos de energia no âmbito de edifícios auto-sustentáveis

Nos últimos anos o consumo de energia elétrica produzida a partir de fontes renováveis tem aumentado significativamente. Este aumento deve-se ao impacto ambiental que recursos como o petróleo, gás, urânio, carvão, entre outros, têm no meio ambiente e que são notáveis no diaa- dia com as alterações climáticas e o aquecimento global. Por sua vez, estes recursos têm um ciclo de vida limitado e a dada altura tornar-se-ão escassos. A preocupação de uma melhoria contínua na redução dos impactos ambientais levou à criação de Normas para uma gestão mais eficiente e sustentável do consumo de energia nos edifícios. Parte da eletricidade vendida pelas empresas de comercialização é produzida através de fontes renováveis, e com a recente publicação do Decreto de Lei nº 153/2014 de 20 outubro de 2014 que regulamenta o autoconsumo, permitindo que também os consumidores possam produzir a sua própria energia nas suas residências para reduzir os custos com a compra de eletricidade. Neste contexto surgiram os edifícios inteligentes. Por edifícios inteligentes entende-se que são edifícios construídos com materiais que os tornam mais eficientes, possuem iluminação e equipamentos elétricos mais eficientes, e têm sistemas de produção de energia que permitem alimentar o próprio edifício, para um consumo mais sustentado. Os sistemas implementados nos edifícios inteligentes visam a monitorização e gestão da energia consumida e produzida para evitar desperdícios de consumo. O trabalho desenvolvido visa o estudo e a implementação de Redes Neuronais Artificiais (RNA) para prever os consumos de energia elétrica dos edifícios N e I do ISEP/GECAD, bem como a previsão da produção dos seus painéis fotovoltáicos. O estudo feito aos dados de consumo permitiu identificar perfis típicos de consumo ao longo de uma semana e de que forma são influenciados pelo contexto, nomeadamente, com os dias da semana versus fim-de-semana, e com as estações do ano, sendo analisados perfis de consumo de inverno e verão. A produção de energia através de painéis fotovoltaicos foi também analisada para perceber se a produção atual é suficiente para satisfazer as necessidades de consumo dos edifícios. Também foi analisada a possibilidade da produção satisfazer parcialmente as necessidades de consumos específicos, por exemplo, da iluminação dos edifícios, dos seus sistemas de ar condicionado ou dos equipamentos usados.

Estudo da redução de consumos energéticos de uma Piscina Municipal

As cada vez mais importantes questões ambientais levam à imprescindibilidade da eficiência energética, sendo que esta tem cada vez mais importância a nível mundial. Deste modo, a eficiência energética, quer por uma obrigação legal (devido aos níveis de consumo) quer por questões de estatuto no mercado (imagem de uma empresa amiga do ambiente), está bem presente no mundo industrial. Portugal apresenta, no que diz respeito à situação energética, uma forte dependência externa, acima dos 70 %. Em 2012, informação disponível pela Direção Geral de Energia e Geologia (DGEG), o consumo total de energia primária era de 21.482 ktep e mais de 55 % desse consumo era proveniente de origem fóssil. Os setores que apresentam maiores consumos de eletricidade por setor de atividade são a Indústria e o setor de Serviços, onde estão presentes os edifícios com consumos perto dos 33 %. De forma a promover a eficiência energética e implementar a utilização racional de energia foram criados programas, estratégias e legislação que permitiram incentivar a diminuição dos consumos de energia nos edifícios de serviço. Uma das metodologias implementadas passa pela gestão de energia, ou seja, para atuar é necessário conhecer os fluxos de energia de um edifício. As auditorias energéticas permitem realizar um levantamento e análise desses mesmos fluxos, com o desígnio de identificar oportunidades de racionalização de consumo de energia. Nesta dissertação foi realizado um estudo da redução de consumos energéticos de uma piscina municipal baseado em dados de uma auditoria energética. Através da auditoria foi possível obter um resultado do exame energético, caracterizar o perfil real de utilização da energia elétrica e caracterizar os equipamentos dos consumidores energéticos instalados. Também permitiu realizar um levantamento térmico, de forma conhecer as temperaturas e a humidade relativa do edifício. Por fim, são apresentadas cinco medidas e algumas recomendações de eficiência energética, que permitem uma redução do consumo anual à instalação de cerca de 20%. Procedeu-se, também, a uma análise dos dados obtidos na auditoria, de forma a identificar algumas oportunidades de racionalização de energia.

Évaluation de l'intégration de l'énergie de fonctionnement dans la pratique patrimoniale au Québec

Problèmes d'approvisionnement et de consommation d'énergie, de démographie et d’urbanisation, la conservation du patrimoine bâti se trouve, en ce début de 21e siècle, face à de nombreux défis. Cela d'autant plus que la façon de percevoir le patrimoine bâti a considérablement évolué depuis le début du 20e siècle (chapitre 1) changeant ainsi les raisons qui mènent à l'appropriation d'un bâtiment patrimonial. Face à l'importance accordée aujourd'hui à l'énergie en général et plus particulièrement à celle consommée par les bâtiments (chapitre 2), comment les enjeux liés à la conservation patrimoniale et ceux liés à l'énergie - via son utilisation et sa production - se confrontent-ils ? Si selon les principes du développement durable (chapitre 3) la conservation du patrimoine bâti associée à une gestion efficace de ses besoins énergétiques semble apparaître comme une évidence, qu’en est-il dans la pratique ? Comment les professionnels du patrimoine bâti intègrent-ils les aspects de l'énergie consommée par les bâtiments ? Comment envisagent-ils l'installation et l'utilisation d'énergies renouvelables dans les bâtiments patrimoniaux ? Afin de trouver des réponses issues de la réalité de la pratique patrimoniale québécoise, ce mémoire - en se limitant à des professionnels avec une formation d'architecte (chapitre 4) - cherche à évaluer, d'une part, dans quelle mesure les chartes et lois appliquées au Québec considèrent les questions énergétiques (chapitre 5) et, d'autre part, à définir l'état d'esprit avec lequel les professionnels de la conservation du patrimoine bâti au Québec approchent, dans leur pratique, les questions liées à l'énergie consommée ainsi que l'utilisation d'énergies renouvelables (chapitre 6).

Energy-Efficient Cluster based Routing Schemes for Static and Mobile Sensor Networks

The theme of the thesis is centred around one important aspect of wireless sensor networks; the energy-efficiency.The limited energy source of the sensor nodes calls for design of energy-efficient routing protocols. The schemes for protocol design should try to minimize the number of communications among the nodes to save energy. Cluster based techniques were found energy-efficient. In this method clusters are formed and data from different nodes are collected under a cluster head belonging to each clusters and then forwarded it to the base station.Appropriate cluster head selection process and generation of desirable distribution of the clusters can reduce energy consumption of the network and prolong the network lifetime. In this work two such schemes were developed for static wireless sensor networks.In the first scheme, the energy wastage due to cluster rebuilding incorporating all the nodes were addressed. A tree based scheme is presented to alleviate this problem by rebuilding only sub clusters of the network. An analytical model of energy consumption of proposed scheme is developed and the scheme is compared with existing cluster based scheme. The simulation study proved the energy savings observed.The second scheme concentrated to build load-balanced energy efficient clusters to prolong the lifetime of the network. A voting based approach to utilise the neighbor node information in the cluster head selection process is proposed. The number of nodes joining a cluster is restricted to have equal sized optimum clusters. Multi-hop communication among the cluster heads is also introduced to reduce the energy consumption. The simulation study has shown that the scheme results in balanced clusters and the network achieves reduction in energy consumption.The main conclusion from the study was the routing scheme should pay attention on successful data delivery from node to base station in addition to the energy-efficiency. The cluster based protocols are extended from static scenario to mobile scenario by various authors. None of the proposals addresses cluster head election appropriately in view of mobility. An elegant scheme for electing cluster heads is presented to meet the challenge of handling cluster durability when all the nodes in the network are moving. The scheme has been simulated and compared with a similar approach.The proliferation of sensor networks enables users with large set of sensor information to utilise them in various applications. The sensor network programming is inherently difficult due to various reasons. There must be an elegant way to collect the data gathered by sensor networks with out worrying about the underlying structure of the network. The final work presented addresses a way to collect data from a sensor network and present it to the users in a flexible way.A service oriented architecture based application is built and data collection task is presented as a web service. This will enable composition of sensor data from different sensor networks to build interesting applications. The main objective of the thesis was to design energy-efficient routing schemes for both static as well as mobile sensor networks. A progressive approach was followed to achieve this goal.

Energy Management in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Crosslayer,Channel Adaptive Approach Towards Performance Optimization

The proliferation of wireless sensor networks in a large spectrum of applications had been spurered by the rapid advances in MEMS(micro-electro mechanical systems )based sensor technology coupled with low power,Low cost digital signal processors and radio frequency circuits.A sensor network is composed of thousands of low cost and portable devices bearing large sensing computing and wireless communication capabilities. This large collection of tiny sensors can form a robust data computing and communication distributed system for automated information gathering and distributed sensing.The main attractive feature is that such a sensor network can be deployed in remote areas.Since the sensor node is battery powered,all the sensor nodes should collaborate together to form a fault tolerant network so as toprovide an efficient utilization of precious network resources like wireless channel,memory and battery capacity.The most crucial constraint is the energy consumption which has become the prime challenge for the design of long lived sensor nodes.

Assessment of Energy Conservation in Indian Cement Industry and Forecasting of Co2 Emissions

Cement industry ranks 2nd in energy consumption among the industries in India. It is one of the major emitter of CO2, due to combustion of fossil fuel and calcination process. As the huge amount of CO2 emissions cause severe environment problems, the efficient and effective utilization of energy is a major concern in Indian cement industry. The main objective of the research work is to assess the energy cosumption and energy conservation of the Indian cement industry and to predict future trends in cement production and reduction of CO2 emissions. In order to achieve this objective, a detailed energy and exergy analysis of a typical cement plant in Kerala was carried out. The data on fuel usage, electricity consumption, amount of clinker and cement production were also collected from a few selected cement industries in India for the period 2001 - 2010 and the CO2 emissions were estimated. A complete decomposition method was used for the analysis of change in CO2 emissions during the period 2001 - 2010 by categorising the cement industries according to the specific thermal energy consumption. A basic forecasting model for the cement production trend was developed by using the system dynamic approach and the model was validated with the data collected from the selected cement industries. The cement production and CO2 emissions from the industries were also predicted with the base year as 2010. The sensitivity analysis of the forecasting model was conducted and found satisfactory. The model was then modified for the total cement production in India to predict the cement production and CO2 emissions for the next 21 years under three different scenarios. The parmeters that influence CO2 emissions like population and GDP growth rate, demand of cement and its production, clinker consumption and energy utilization are incorporated in these scenarios. The existing growth rate of the population and cement production in the year 2010 were used in the baseline scenario. In the scenario-1 (S1) the growth rate of population was assumed to be gradually decreasing and finally reach zero by the year 2030, while in scenario-2 (S2) a faster decline in the growth rate was assumed such that zero growth rate is achieved in the year 2020. The mitigation strategiesfor the reduction of CO2 emissions from the cement production were identified and analyzed in the energy management scenarioThe energy and exergy analysis of the raw mill of the cement plant revealed that the exergy utilization was worse than energy utilization. The energy analysis of the kiln system showed that around 38% of heat energy is wasted through exhaust gases of the preheater and cooler of the kiln sysetm. This could be recovered by the waste heat recovery system. A secondary insulation shell was also recommended for the kiln in the plant in order to prevent heat loss and enhance the efficiency of the plant. The decomposition analysis of the change in CO2 emissions during 2001- 2010 showed that the activity effect was the main factor for CO2 emissions for the cement industries since it is directly dependent on economic growth of the country. The forecasting model showed that 15.22% and 29.44% of CO2 emissions reduction can be achieved by the year 2030 in scenario- (S1) and scenario-2 (S2) respectively. In analysing the energy management scenario, it was assumed that 25% of electrical energy supply to the cement plants is replaced by renewable energy. The analysis revealed that the recovery of waste heat and the use of renewable energy could lead to decline in CO2 emissions 7.1% for baseline scenario, 10.9 % in scenario-1 (S1) and 11.16% in scenario-2 (S2) in 2030. The combined scenario considering population stabilization by the year 2020, 25% of contribution from renewable energy sources of the cement industry and 38% thermal energy from the waste heat streams shows that CO2 emissions from Indian cement industry could be reduced by nearly 37% in the year 2030. This would reduce a substantial level of greenhouse gas load to the environment. The cement industry will remain one of the critical sectors for India to meet its CO2 emissions reduction target. India’s cement production will continue to grow in the near future due to its GDP growth. The control of population, improvement in plant efficiency and use of renewable energy are the important options for the mitigation of CO2 emissions from Indian cement industries

Auf Basis umfangreicher Messdatensätze experimentell und numerisch validierte Regeln zur optimierten Auslegung von Luft-Erdwärmetauschern

Ein Luft-Erdwärmetauscher (L-EWT) kommt wegen seines niedrigen Energiebedarfs und möglicher guter Aufwandszahlen als umweltfreundliche Versorgungskomponente für Gebäude in Betracht. Dabei ist besonders vorteilhaft, dass ein L-EWT die Umgebungsluft je nach Jahreszeit vorwärmen oder auch kühlen kann. Dem zufolge sind L-EWT zur Energieeinsparung nicht nur für den Wohnhausbau interessant, sondern auch dort, wo immer noch große Mengen an fossiler Energie für die Raumkühlung benötigt werden, im Büro- und Produktionsgebäudesektor. Der Einsatzbereich eines L-EWT liegt zwischen Volumenströmen von 100 m3/h und mehreren 100.000 m3/h. Aus dieser Bandbreite und den instationären Randbedingungen entstehen erhebliche Schwierigkeiten, allgemeingültige Aussagen über das zu erwartende thermische Systemverhalten aus der Vielzahl möglicher Konstruktionsvarianten zu treffen. Hauptziel dieser Arbeit ist es, auf Basis umfangreicher, mehrjähriger Messungen an einer eigens konzipierten Testanlage und eines speziell angepassten numerischen Rechenmodells, Kennzahlen zu entwickeln, die es ermöglichen, die Betriebseigenschaften eines L-EWT im Planungsalltag zu bestimmen und ein technisch, ökologisch wie ökonomisch effizientes System zu identifizieren. Es werden die Kennzahlen elewt (Aufwandszahl), QV (Netto-Volumenleistung), ME (Meterertrag), sowie die Kombination aus v (Strömungsgeschwindigkeit) und VL (Metervolumenstrom) definiert, die zu wichtigen Informationen führen, mit denen die Qualität von Systemvarianten in der Planungsphase bewertet werden können. Weiterführende Erkenntnisse über die genauere Abschätzung von Bodenkennwerten werden dargestellt. Die hygienische Situation der durch den L-EWT transportierten Luft wird für die warme Jahreszeit, aufgrund auftretender Tauwasserbildung, beschrieben. Aus diesem Grund werden alle relevanten lufthygienischen Parameter in mehreren aufwendigen Messkampagnen erfasst und auf pathogene Wirkungen überprüft. Es wird über Sensitivitätsanalysen gezeigt, welche Fehler bei Annahme falscher Randbedingungen eintreten. Weiterhin werden in dieser Arbeit wesentliche, grundsätzliche Erkenntnisse aufbereitet, die sich aus der Betriebsbeobachtung und der Auswertung der umfangreich vorliegenden Messdaten mehrerer Anlagen ergeben haben und für die praktische Umsetzung und die Betriebsführung bedeutend sind. Hinweise zu Materialeigenschaften und zur Systemwirtschaftlichkeit sind detailliert aufgeführt.

Untersuchung der Sensitivität von Heizungs- / Lüftungsanlagen in Niedrigenergiehäusern

Bei Meßprojekten in denen Gebäude mit installierter Lüftungsanlage untersucht wurden, stellte man immer wieder ein breite Streuung der Meßwerte, als auch eine oftmals deutliche Abweichung vom vorher ermittelten Heizwärmebedarf der Gebäude fest. Es wird vermutet, daß diese Unterschiede systemspezifische Ursachen haben, ein Nachweis kann aufgrund der geringen Anzahl vorhandener Meßpunkte jedoch nicht geführt werden. Um die Sensitivität verschiedener Randbedingungen auf den Energieverbrauch zu ermitteln, wird im vorliegenden Forschungsprojekt ein Simulationsmodell erstellt. Das thermische Verhalten und die Durchströmung des Gebäudes werden durch ein gekoppeltes Modell abgebildet. Unterschiedliche Lüftungsanlagensysteme werden miteinander verglichen. Auf Basis vorhandener Meßdaten wird ein klimaabhängiges Modell zur Fensterlüftung entwickelt, welches in die Modellbildung der Gebäudedurchströmung mit einfließt. Feuchtegeregelte Abluftanlagen sind in der Lage den mittleren Luftwechsel auf ein hygienisch sinnvollen Wert zu begrenzen. Sie erweisen sich im Hinblick auf die Sensitivität verschiedener Randbedingungen als robuste Systeme. Trotz Einsatz von Lüftungsanlagen kann je nach Betriebszustand insbesondere bei Abluftanlagen keine ausreichende Luftqualität sichergestellt werden. Zukünftige Systeme dürfen das "Lüftungssystem" Fenster nicht vernachlässigen, sondern müssen es in das Gesamtkonzept mit einbeziehen.

RF Energy Harvesting in WSNs

As a vital factor affecting system cost and lifetime, energy consumption in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) has been paid much attention to. This article reviews existing energy harvesting technology applied in WSNs, and analyzes advantages of harvesting radio frequency (RF) energy in WSNs.

Energy substitutability in transition agriculture: estimates and implications for Hungary

Subsidised energy prices in pre-transition Hungary had led to excessive energy intensity in the agricultural sector. Transition has resulted in steep input price increases. In this study, Allen and Morishima elasticities of substitution are estimated to study the effects of these price changes on energy use, chemical input use, capital formation and employment. Panel data methods, Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) and instrument exogeneity tests are used to specify and estimate technology and substitution elasticities. Results indicate that indirect price policy may be effective in controlling energy consumption. The sustained increases in energy and chemical input prices have worked together to restrict energy and chemical input use, and the substitutability between energy, capital and labour has prevented the capital shrinkage and agricultural unemployment situations from being worse. The Hungarian push towards lower energy intensity may be best pursued through sustained energy price increases rather than capital subsidies. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Effect of internal partitioning on room air quality with mixing ventilation-statistical analysis

In designing modern office buildings, building spaces are frequently zoned by introducing internal partitioning, which may have a significant influence on the room air environment. This internal partitioning was studied by means of model test, numerical simulation, and statistical analysis as the final stage. In this paper, the results produced from the statistical analysis are summarized and presented.

Performance of phase change material boards under natural convection

The high thermal storage capacity of phase change material (PCM) can reduce energy consumption in buildings through energy storage and release when combined with renewable energy sources, night cooling, etc. PCM boards can be used to absorb heat gains during daytime and release heat at night. In this paper, the thermal performance of an environmental chamber fitted with phase change material boards has been investigated. During a full-cycle experiment, i.e. charging–releasing cycle, the PCM boards on a wall can reduce the interior wall surface temperature during the charging process, whereas the PCM wall surface temperature is higher than that of the other walls during the heat releasing process. It is found that the heat flux density of the PCM wall in the melting zone is almost twice as large as that of ordinary wall. Also, the heat-insulation performance of a PCM wall is better than that of an ordinary wall during the charging process, while during the heat discharging process, the PCM wall releases more heat energy. The convective heat transfer coefficient of PCM wall surface calculated using equations for a normal wall material produces an underestimation of this coefficient. The high convective heat transfer coefficient for a PCM wall is due to the increased energy exchange between the wall and indoor air.

Qualitative modelling of sustainable energy scenarios: An application and extension of the Bon Qualitative Input-Output model

Climate change is one of the major challenges facing economic systems at the start of the 21st century. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions will require both restructuring the energy supply system (production) and addressing the efficiency and sufficiency of the social uses of energy (consumption). The energy production system is a complicated supply network of interlinked sectors with 'knock-on' effects throughout the economy. End use energy consumption is governed by complex sets of interdependent cultural, social, psychological and economic variables driven by shifts in consumer preference and technological development trajectories. To date, few models have been developed for exploring alternative joint energy production-consumption systems. The aim of this work is to propose one such model. This is achieved in a methodologically coherent manner through integration of qualitative input-output models of production, with Bayesian belief network models of consumption, at point of final demand. The resulting integrated framework can be applied either (relatively) quickly and qualitatively to explore alternative energy scenarios, or as a fully developed quantitative model to derive or assess specific energy policy options. The qualitative applications are explored here.

Impact of transmission errors in enhanced relay-enabled distributed coordination function

This paper analyzes the performance of Enhanced relay-enabled Distributed Coordination Function (ErDCF) for wireless ad hoc networks under transmission errors. The idea of ErDCF is to use high data rate nodes to work as relays for the low data rate nodes. ErDCF achieves higher throughput and reduces energy consumption compared to IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) in an ideal channel environment. However, there is a possibility that this expected gain may decrease in the presence of transmission errors. In this work, we modify the saturation throughput model of ErDCF to accurately reflect the impact of transmission errors under different rate combinations. It turns out that the throughput gain of ErDCF can still be maintained under reasonable link quality and distance.