Flexible Residential Test Facility: Impact of Infiltration and Ventilation on Measured Cooling Season Energy and Moisture Levels

Technical Report · Thu Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1327849· OSTI ID:1327849

Parker, Danny S. ^[1]; Cummings, Jamie E. ^[1]; Vieira, Robin K. ^[1]; Sherwin, John S. ^[1]; Hoak, David ^[1]; Beal, David ^[1]

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1. BA-PIRC/Florida Solar Energy Center, Cocoa, FL (United States)

Air infiltration and ventilation in residential buildings is a very large part of the heating loads, but empirical data regarding the impact on space cooling has been lacking. Moreover, there has been little data on how building tightness might relate to building interior moisture levels in homes in a hot and humid climate. To address this need, BA-PIRC has conducted research to assess the moisture and cooling load impacts of airtightness and mechanical ventilation in two identical laboratory homes in the hot-humid climate over the cooling season.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Energy Efficiency Office. Building Technologies Office
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 1327849
• Report Number(s): NREL/SR-5500-66488; DOE/GO-102016-4909
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
residential
Residential Buildings
BA-PIRC
Building America
infiltration
mechanical ventilation
moisture control
simulated occupancy
CO2 tracer
space cooling energy
condensate measurement