Smart ventilation energy and indoor air quality performance in residential buildings: A review
Abstract
To better address energy and indoor air quality issues, ventilation needs to become smarter. A key smart ventilation concept is to use controls to ventilate more at times it provides either an energy or indoor air quality (IAQ) advantage (or both) and less when it provides a disadvantage. A favorable context exists in many countries to include some of the existing smart ventilation strategies in codes and standards. As a result, demand-controlled ventilation (DCV) systems are widely and easily available on the market, with more than 20 DCV systems approved and available in countries such as Belgium, France and the Netherlands. This paper provides a literature review on smart ventilation used in residential buildings, based on energy and indoor air quality performance. This meta-analysis includes 38 studies of various smart ventilation systems with control based on CO2, humidity, combined CO2 and total volatile organic compounds (TVOC), occupancy, or outdoor temperature. In conclusion, these studies show that ventilation energy savings up to 60% can be obtained without compromising IAQ, even sometimes improving it. However, the meta-analysis included some less than favorable results, with 26% energy overconsumption in some cases.
- Authors:
-
- Cerema Centre EST, L'Isle d'Abeau (France); Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Chambery (France)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Energy Efficiency Office. Building Technologies Office
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1440964
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1548902
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231; EPC-15-037; FP00003428
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Energy and Buildings
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 165; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0378-7788
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY; 42 ENGINEERING; Ventilation; Indoor air quality; Performance; Residential buildings; Demand-controlled ventilation; Review
Citation Formats
Guyot, Gaelle, Sherman, Max H., and Walker, Iain S. Smart ventilation energy and indoor air quality performance in residential buildings: A review. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2017.12.051.
Guyot, Gaelle, Sherman, Max H., & Walker, Iain S. Smart ventilation energy and indoor air quality performance in residential buildings: A review. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2017.12.051
Guyot, Gaelle, Sherman, Max H., and Walker, Iain S. Sat .
"Smart ventilation energy and indoor air quality performance in residential buildings: A review". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2017.12.051. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1440964.
@article{osti_1440964,
title = {Smart ventilation energy and indoor air quality performance in residential buildings: A review},
author = {Guyot, Gaelle and Sherman, Max H. and Walker, Iain S.},
abstractNote = {To better address energy and indoor air quality issues, ventilation needs to become smarter. A key smart ventilation concept is to use controls to ventilate more at times it provides either an energy or indoor air quality (IAQ) advantage (or both) and less when it provides a disadvantage. A favorable context exists in many countries to include some of the existing smart ventilation strategies in codes and standards. As a result, demand-controlled ventilation (DCV) systems are widely and easily available on the market, with more than 20 DCV systems approved and available in countries such as Belgium, France and the Netherlands. This paper provides a literature review on smart ventilation used in residential buildings, based on energy and indoor air quality performance. This meta-analysis includes 38 studies of various smart ventilation systems with control based on CO2, humidity, combined CO2 and total volatile organic compounds (TVOC), occupancy, or outdoor temperature. In conclusion, these studies show that ventilation energy savings up to 60% can be obtained without compromising IAQ, even sometimes improving it. However, the meta-analysis included some less than favorable results, with 26% energy overconsumption in some cases.},
doi = {10.1016/j.enbuild.2017.12.051},
journal = {Energy and Buildings},
number = C,
volume = 165,
place = {United States},
year = {Sat Dec 30 00:00:00 EST 2017},
month = {Sat Dec 30 00:00:00 EST 2017}
}
Web of Science
Figures / Tables:
Works referenced in this record:
Humidity as a Control Parameter for Ventilation
journal, August 2003
- Afshari, Alireza; Bergsøe, Niels C.
- Indoor and Built Environment, Vol. 12, Issue 4
Daily time spent indoors in German homes – Baseline data for the assessment of indoor exposure of German occupants
journal, July 2005
- Brasche, Sabine; Bischof, Wolfgang
- International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, Vol. 208, Issue 4
Sensor-based demand-controlled ventilation: a review
journal, December 1998
- Fisk, William J.; De Almeida, Anibal T.
- Energy and Buildings, Vol. 29, Issue 1
Demand-controlled ventilation in new residential buildings: Consequences on indoor air quality and energy savings
journal, November 2013
- Hesaraki, Arefeh; Holmberg, Sture
- Indoor and Built Environment, Vol. 24, Issue 2
Numerical study of a hybrid ventilation system for single family houses
journal, February 2007
- Jreijiry, David; Husaunndee, Ahmad; Inard, Christian
- Solar Energy, Vol. 81, Issue 2
The National Human Activity Pattern Survey (NHAPS): a resource for assessing exposure to environmental pollutants
journal, July 2001
- Klepeis, Neil E.; Nelson, William C.; Ott, Wayne R.
- Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology, Vol. 11, Issue 3
Energy saving potential and repercussions on indoor air quality of demand controlled residential ventilation strategies
journal, July 2011
- Laverge, J.; Van Den Bossche, N.; Heijmans, N.
- Building and Environment, Vol. 46, Issue 7
A Method to Estimate the Chronic Health Impact of Air Pollutants in U.S. Residences
journal, February 2012
- Logue, Jennifer M.; Price, Phillip N.; Sherman, Max H.
- Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 120, Issue 2
Total Volatile Organic Compounds (TVOC) in Indoor Air Quality Investigations*
journal, December 1997
- Molhave, L.; Clausen, G.; Berglund, B.
- Indoor Air, Vol. 7, Issue 4
Energy efficient demand controlled ventilation in single family houses
journal, November 2010
- Nielsen, Toke Rammer; Drivsholm, Christian
- Energy and Buildings, Vol. 42, Issue 11
Demand controlled ventilation
journal, October 2004
- Pavlovas, Vitalijus
- Energy and Buildings, Vol. 36, Issue 10
Derivation of equivalent continuous dilution for cyclic, unsteady driving forces
journal, May 2011
- Sherman, Max H.; Mortensen, Dorthe K.; Walker, Iain S.
- International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 54, Issue 11-12
Meeting residential ventilation standards through dynamic control of ventilation systems
journal, August 2011
- Sherman, Max H.; Walker, Iain S.
- Energy and Buildings, Vol. 43, Issue 8
Using a ventilation controller to optimise residential passive ventilation for energy and indoor air quality
journal, December 2013
- Turner, William J. N.; Walker, Iain S.
- Building and Environment, Vol. 70
Peak load reductions: Electric load shifting with mechanical pre-cooling of residential buildings with low thermal mass
journal, March 2015
- Turner, W. J. N.; Walker, I. S.; Roux, J.
- Energy, Vol. 82
Effect of ventilation strategies on residential ozone levels
journal, January 2013
- Walker, Iain S.; Sherman, Max H.
- Building and Environment, Vol. 59
The effect of combining a relative-humidity-sensitive ventilation system with the moisture-buffering capacity of materials on indoor climate and energy efficiency of buildings
journal, March 2009
- Woloszyn, Monika; Kalamees, Targo; Olivier Abadie, Marc
- Building and Environment, Vol. 44, Issue 3
Works referencing / citing this record:
Estimating real-time infiltration for use in residential ventilation control
journal, August 2019
- Ng, Lisa C.; Zimmerman, Stephen; Good, Jeremy
- Indoor and Built Environment, Vol. 29, Issue 4
Effect of formaldehyde on ventilation rate and energy demand in Danish homes: Development of emission models and building performance simulation
journal, August 2019
- Johnston, Christopher Just; Andersen, Rune Korsholm; Toftum, Jørn
- Building Simulation, Vol. 13, Issue 1
Low Polluting Building Materials and Ventilation for Good Air Quality in Residential Buildings: A Cost–Benefit Study
journal, January 2020
- Babich, Francesco; Demanega, Ingrid; Avella, Francesca
- Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Issue 1
The Effect of Ventilation Strategies on Indoor Air Quality and Energy Consumptions in Classrooms
journal, May 2019
- Stabile, Luca; Massimo, Angelamaria; Canale, Laura
- Buildings, Vol. 9, Issue 5
A Review of Performance Specifications and Studies of Trickle Vents
journal, November 2018
- Biler, Ahmet; Unlu Tavil, Aslihan; Su, Yuehong
- Buildings, Vol. 8, Issue 11
Figures / Tables found in this record: