Desempenho termico e consumo energetico de edificios de escritorios em São Carlos, SP / Thermal performance and energy consumption of buildings of offices in São Carlos, SP

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

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Due to the energetic crisis and the high demand for electricity, the concern about power saving is growing, mainly at public and commercial buildings, as they are the greatest consumers. Therefore, many researchers of the area are directing their scientific researches towards the study of mankind thermal comfort, aiming more energetically efficient buildings. Based upon these facts, this work evaluates the influence of construction parameters in relation to energy consumption and thermal comfort of office buildings located in the city of Sao Carlos, in order to adequate the buildings to the city climate. For such analysis, six buildings were studied regarding constructive characterization and three of them were chosen to be assessed by the use and occupancy patterns of this type of building and for temperature and air relative humidity monitoring. According to the city climate, simulations were performed for a reference building with some fixed parameters, which were adopted as representing the most used building systems in Brazil and other variables such as orientation, building system, the percentage of glass in the façade, façade and roof absortance and air renovation. Each variable parameter was simulated having all others fixed, obtaining real results of their individual influences. The results of these simulations were statistically analyzed by multiple linear regression. Through this analysis it was possible to determine the influence of each parameter in the energy consumption. The roof absortance was the parameter that most influenced the consumption, reaching a 160% increase in the month of June and 238% in December, regarding the façade absortance, the less influential parameter in these models. Besides that, the differences of consumption between bigger and smaller values for all the combinations adopted in this work were calculated, reaching ideal situations for the warming and cooling consumptions. In all cases, except for the thermal capacity of the building system, the smaller values of each parameter were the ones that obtained the minor total consumption in all situations

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conforto termico thermal comfort energy consumption energia eletrica - consumo edificios comerciais buildings of offices

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