Improving indoor thermal environment in a traditional building of Danihe Village, China with additional solar house

Autor: Lei Zhang, Xuan Ma, Jingyuan Zhao, Jianxin Zhang, Shaobo Fan, Nanyu Wang, Mi Guo
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Alexandria Engineering Journal, Vol 61, Iss 4, Pp 3313-3321 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1110-0168
DOI: 10.1016/j.aej.2021.08.066
Popis: A considerable chunk of population in China live in rural areas. To create a suitable living environment in winter, many of them resort to additional solar house to improve the indoor thermal environment. Most of the previous studies focus on how the additional solar house changes the environment, but few try to optimize the size of that house. Therefore, this paper carries out field measurement and numerical simulation to evaluate the indoor thermal environment of a traditional building of Danihe Village, an important residential settlement in Xi’an, northwestern China’s Shaanxi Province, and explores the most suitable size of the additional solar house for improving the indoor thermal environment of the building in winter. The results show that the width of the additional solar house should be controlled within the range of 600–2400 mm, which provides the residents indoor with the best thermal environment. The research results offer a guide for improving indoor thermal environment and reducing indoor energy cost in future.
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