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Title: 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.

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  1. Cerema Centre EST, L'Isle d'Abeau (France); Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Chambery (France)
  2. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
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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

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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.
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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
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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.
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@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}
}
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Figure 1: Figure 1:: Simulated controlled whole-house ventilation fan (continuous exhaust) with RIVEC and other household fan operation during the winter
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