Energy efficiency in Chinese apartment buildings: parametric runs with the DOE. 2 computer program

Conference · Mon Nov 01 04:00:00 EST 1982

OSTI ID:6485112

Huang, Y J; Canha de Piedade, A; Rosenfeld, A H; Tseng, D

Using a typical-design uninsulated Beijing apartment building as a base case, we have used the DOE.2 energy analysis program to study the cost-effectiveness of more energy-efficient building design. Two measures have attractive simple payback times: reduced infiltration (one to two years payback) and insulation of the north wall (six years). The cost of conserved coal for the insulation measure is 1.3 Yuan/GJ, which is less than half the international price of coal. This insulation adds only 0.6% to the first cost of the building, yet, combined with more attention to infiltration, it reduces annual heat load from 230 MJ/m/sup 2/ to 130. The first cost of these two measures is probably offset by downsizing the heating plant. In Shanghai, reduced infiltration and insulation are justified not on the basis of saving fuel, but because they make the dwellings much more comfortable.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00098
• OSTI ID: 6485112
• Report Number(s): LBL-15183; CONF-821121-3; EEB-82-3; ON: DE83008253
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
320101* -- Energy Conservation
Consumption
& Utilization-- Residential Buildings-- (-1987)
AIR INFILTRATION
APARTMENT BUILDINGS
ASIA
BUILDINGS
CHINA
COMPUTER CALCULATIONS
COMPUTER CODES
D CODES
EFFICIENCY
ENERGY CONSUMPTION
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
ENERGY LOSSES
FUEL CONSUMPTION
HEAT GAIN
HEAT LOSSES
HEATING LOAD
LOSSES
PAYBACK PERIOD
RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS
THERMAL INSULATION