Russian Apartment Building Thermal Response Models for Retrofit Selection and Verification
- BATTELLE (PACIFIC NW LAB)
- Foundation for Enterprise Restructuring
The Enterprise Housing Divestiture Project (EHDP) aims to identify cost-effective energy efficiency and conservation measures for Russian apartment buildings and to implement these measures in the entire stock of buildings undergoing divestiture in six cities. Short-term measurements of infiltration and exterior wall heat-loss coefficient were made in the cities of Cheropovets, Orenburg, Petrozavodsk, Ryazan, and Vladimir. Long-term monitoring equipment was installed in six or more buildings in the aforementioned and in the city of Volxhov. The results of these measurements will be used to calibrate models used to select optimal retrofit packages and to verify energy savings. The retrofit categories representing the largest technical potential in these buildings are envelope, heat recovery, and heating/hot water system improvements. This paper describes efforts to establish a useful thermal model calibration process. The model structures and analytical methods for obtaining building parameters from time series weather, energy use, and thermal response data are developed. Our experience applying these methods to two, nominally identical 5-story apartment buildings in the city of Ryazan is presented. Building envelope UA?s inferred from measured whole-building thermal response data are compared with UA?s based on window and wall U-values (the latter obtained by ASTM in-situ measurements of 20 wall sections in various Ryazan panel buildings) as well. The UA's obtained by these completely independent measurements differ by less than 10%.
- Research Organization:
- Pacific Northwest National Lab., Richland, WA (US)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- US Department of Energy (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC06-76RL01830
- OSTI ID:
- 15002710
- Report Number(s):
- PNWD-SA-5108; TRN: US200418%%71
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 2000 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings - Proceedings. Panel 3, Conference location not provided, Conference dates not provided; Other Information: PBD: 21 Aug 2000
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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