An advanced low-energy and CO{sub 2} emission-free house (HARBEMAN house) with sky radiation cooling
A unique energy-independent house (HARBEMAN house--Harmony Between Man and Nature) incorporating sky radiation cooling and solar thermal, underground coolness and so on was built as a residential house in Sendai, Japan (latitude; 38 deg. 17{prime}00{double_prime} north and longitude; 140 deg. 50{prime}14{double_prime} east) in 1996. The average solar energy received on a horizontal surface in January in Sendai is 7,200 kJ/m{sup 2}/day. This paper describes the experimental results of this sophisticated house since September 1996 to date. The paper also reports the method of computer simulation for the HARBEMAN house and the results compared with the annual experimental data for 1997 and 1998. The proposed HARBEMAN house meets almost all its energy demands, including space heating and cooling, domestic hot water, electricity generated by photovoltaic cell and rainwater for the Japanese standard homes. Sky radiation cooling, solar thermal/PV and natural underground coolness cooling as well as rainwater and waste heat are combinedly utilized.
- Research Organization:
- Tohoku Univ., Sendai (JP)
- OSTI ID:
- 20026791
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 5th ASME/JSME Thermal Engineering Joint Conference, San Diego, CA (US), 03/14/1999--03/19/1999; Other Information: 1 CD-ROM. Operating system required: Windows i386(tm), i486(tm), Pentium (R) or Pentium Pro, MS Windows 3.1, 95, or NT 3.51, 8 MB RAM, MacIntosh and Power MacIntosh with a 68020 or greater processor, System software version 7.1, 3.5 MB RAM (5 MB for PowerMac) 6 MB available hard-disk space, Unix; PBD: 1999; Related Information: In: Proceedings of the 5th ASME/JSME thermal engineering joint conference, [3600] pages.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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