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cient buildings have recently become a trend for future building industry. The major challenge in the control system
ding is to minimize the power consumption without compromising the customers comfort. Buildings have the physical
iluted and sometimes unpredictable renewable energy. The building envelope and the ground constitute the basic
autonomous buildings. It is widely accepted that if any country has to reduce greenhouse gas emissions it must
energy end use in the building sector. Simulation of building performance is increasingly being used in design practice
occupants in finished buildings. In this thesis, the simulation results shows that the proposed intelligent control system
s the user's preferences for thermal and illuminance comfort, indoor air quality and the energy conservation by using
re. The present work attempts to overcome certain inadequacies of contemporary simulation applications with respect
rol systems, by developing novel building control systems modeling schemes. These schemes are then integrated
mulation environment so that they can be employed in practice.
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ergy and Comfort Management in Energy Efficient Buildings

ing RETSCREEN Software-A Case Study Analysis
aya Lalita. P*, Dr. Ch. Saibabu**, G. R. K. D. Satya Prasad***
Student, JNTUK, Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh)
Professor in EEE, Director of Academic Planning JNTUK; Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, INDIA)
Research Scholar, JNTU Kakinada, Assoc. Professor, GIET, Gunupur, ODISHA)
STRACT
rt and energy-efficient buildings have recently become a trend for future building industry. The majo
enge in the control system design for such a building is to minimize the power consumption withou
promising the customers comfort. Buildings have the physical potential to harness diluted and sometimes
edictable renewable energy. The building envelope and the ground constitute the basic resources for energy
nomous buildings. It is widely accepted that if any country has to reduce greenhouse gas emissions it mus
essively address energy end use in the building sector.
ulation of building performance is increasingly being used in design practice to predict comfort of occupants
nished buildings. In this thesis, the simulation results shows that the proposed intelligent control system
essfully manages the user’s preferences for thermal and illuminance comfort, indoor air quality and the
gy conservation by using RETSCREEN software. The present work attempts to overcome certain
equacies of contemporary simulation applications with respect to environmental control systems, by
loping novel building control systems modeling schemes. These schemes are then integrated within a state
t simulation environment so that they can be employed in practice.
words – Building materials, Energy Efficient buildings, Energy performance index, HVAC parameters,
SCREEN software.
I. INTRODUCTION energies, and useful strategies to reduce carbo

Energy consumption of buildings (both dioxide emissions [2].
ntial and commercial) has steadily increased, The concept of EEB has gained wid
ng figures between 20% and 40% in developed international attention during last few years and
now seen as the future target for the design
i Th i f d d i b ildi ill
ies. The rise of energy demand in buildings will
ue in the near future because of growth in buildings. However, before being fully implemente
ation, long-term use of buildings, and increasing in the national building codes and internation
d for improved building comfort levels. standards, the EEB concept requires clear an
fore, the energy efficiency of buildings is of consistent definition and a commonly agreed energ
concern for anyone wishing to identify energy calculation methodology.
s. To this end, automated meter reading and This paper focuses on the review of the mo
metering systems have been employed to collect of the existing EEB definitions and the variou
ng energy data [1]. The aim of these data is to approaches towards possible EEB calculatio
e greater insight into how a building consumes methodologies. It presents and discusses possib
y and, therefore, what improvements are likely to answers to the above mentioned issues in order
ost effective in reducing consumption. Energy facilitate the development of a consistent EE
ent Building (EEB) design has become a high definition and robust energy calculatio
y for present situations where power crisis is methodologies are provided [3].
ting to higher levels. The present study of EEB
allenging task for multi-disciplinary technology, II. AN APPROACH TO PLAN EEB
se designing a EEB involves the knowledge of Buildings are usually evaluated according
mechanical, electrical, environmental and the amount of energy required by the building an
ectural engineers. The scientific evidences for therefore expressed in terms of kWh/m2/year an
e changes and the associated impacts of termed as Energy Performance Index (EPI). Th
house gas emissions are becoming increasingly assessment of the energy demand for the climat
us. Most of the countries, buildings are control of a building can only be dealt with if the lev
sible for 47% of national energy consumption. of the indoor environmental comfort and it is direct
ists and built environment professionals are related to EPI. If the value of EPI is less, then th
to find advanced technologies, renewable consumption of energy is less and hence the electrici
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will be less. But, all these can be achieved without Where, qH is the thermal load of the buildin
omising the comforts and luxuries of the in watts. The first two terms on the right express th
mer. thermal losses ( ), which is th
A systematic approach is required to plan an more important part of any building study, while t
without sacrificing the requirements of the last two terms are the thermal gains of the buildin
mer. A good EEB design requires the qcond are the thermal losses through the building
logies of civil, thermal, mechanical, electrical envelope, qinf are the infiltration loss caused by t
rchitectural tools. Hence the below flow chart entrance of fresh air. Respectively, qsol are the net sol
in “Fig.1” will gives an approach to plan an thermal gains and qint are the internal thermal gai
(people, lighting, equipment operation etc.).
Fig.2: Building model
For a building, a state of balance practical

means Qloss = Qgain and therefore the thermal load q
= 0 shown in “Fig.3”. All building losses are depende
for the temperature difference ( ΔΤ=Ti-To) of th
internal (Ti) and the external ( To) of the buildin
Thus, when, Qloss > Qgain something that usual
happens during the winter period where th
temperature differences ΔΤ are high, then qH > 0, an
so qH expresses the additional thermal load in wat
that the building demands in order to return to i
thermal equilibrium state and in the end specifies th
building’s heating demand in time.[5]
The thermal load of a building, after th
introduction of a Building total Loss Coefficie
(BLC) is given then by:
Fig. 1: Planning of an EEB through flow chart
QH = QLoss – Qgain = BLC × (Ti – To) – Qgain (2
Where QH is the thermal load in watt, Ti is th
A base building will be measured with initial
necessary internal temperature of the building (or eve
nd if it measures 350 kwh/m2/year. By envelope
the design temperature of the building in 0C) and T0
zation and with building materials in roof and
the outside temperature.
the EPI can decrease to 225 kWh /m2/year.
The BLC is calculated in Watt/0C, modifie
rly with lighting optimization to 175
to include both the thermal losses through th
m2/year and with HVAC optimization 125
buildings envelope and the infiltration losses. For an
m2/year and finally with Controls, sensors, rain
building, BLC can be normally calculated as:
waste water harvesting it will reach to 95
m2/year. All these results will be simulated by (3)
RETSCREEN software by considering a case Where UT,I is the thermal conductance
Watt/(m2 K) of the building components (outsid
walls, floors, doors, windows etc., ) Ai is the respectiv
MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF EEB components areas in m2, minf is the mass flow rate
A Simplified Building Energy model will be infiltration air in kg/sec (Lt/sec), Cpa is the specific he
ed by considering a room with thermal capacity of air at constant pressure in KJ/(Kg0K). In th
eters. The net heat energy loss (or gain) of a BLC, they are also considered the relative he
ng can be defined at any moment from the capacities of the building components within which
al balance of the building (first law). For example is stored an additional thermal load that might com
he calculation of the thermal load the either from the heat gains or the heat losses of t
taneous steady-state thermal balance of a building[6].
ng is given by
(1)
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IV. CASE STUDY ANALYSIS BY show the data of climatic conditions of the considere
RETSCREEN location. While the latitude and longitude values a
The RETSCREEN Software Building entered, the values of Air temperature, Relativ
ope Model can be used worldwide to evaluate the humidity, Daily radiation-horizontal, Atmospheri
y use and savings, costs, emission reductions, wind speed, Earth temperature, Heating Degree day
ial viability and risk for building envelope Cooling degree days are obtained for monthly basi
y efficiency measures. The software can model a The data obtained is only for reference purpose not
variety of projects ranging from passive solar run the model.
s for houses, to energy efficient window use in
ercial buildings, to complete energy efficient
uction practices on the entire building envelope
ge institutional and industrial buildings [7]. The
re also includes product, project and climate
ses, and a detailed user manual.

In this case the analysis is considered for
College of Engineering Kakinada. For this
is the procedure is as follows:
Fig 5: Building parameters
In this tool, enter the information about th

facility characteristics, for the base case and th
proposed case facilities. The user clicks on the blu
hyperlinks (e.g. Heating system, Cooling system
Building envelope, ventilation, lighting etc.) to acce
the data entry forms used to describe the facility.
addition, the key results of the model are displayed
this section (e.g. fuel saved, simple payback, etc.).
ig. 3: Energy model sheet of RETSCREEN In this analysis the electrical equipments li
fans, tube lights and computer are taken. For the
The project type is of Energy efficient equipments the base case and proposed case a
res, this is of institutional facility type and the considered. By using efficient devices the pow
is method is considered as method 1. The saving is of 36.2%. Although the initial cost may b
g value reference is considered as LHV. Higher high, at last there is a lot of saving. For buildin
g value is typically used in cold locations like envelope the payback period is 8.3 years and f
a and USA, while lower heating value is used in electrical equipments there is no payback perio
st of the world. Hence LHV is selected. This is means when we invest the money immediately we ca
ernational wide software hence we can get the get the savings.
cy what we required. The climatic data
ions are obtained for this location which is A. Emission Analysis:
ed in Site reference conditions.
Fig.6: Emission analysis

Fig.4: Climate data base
Comparing to base case the proposed ca
To access the RETSCREEN Climate will cut short the emissions to 28%. That is equivale
ase click on the "Select climate data location" to 6 cars not used per year. In a larger scale it can ea
ink or use the RETSCREEN menu or toolbar. the carbon credits to the project and it will support th
This is the extension of first window which additional revenue to the project.

ancial analysis: [4] Guglielmo S. Aglietti,Harnessing Hig
Altitude Solar Power, IEEE, transactions o
energy conversion, vol. 24, no. 2, june 2009
[5] Mohan Kolhe Techno-Economic Optimu
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ENERGY CONVERSION, VOL. 24, NO.
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[6] Electricity, Resources, and Building System
Integration at the National Renewable Energ
Laboratory, David Mooney Nation
Fig.7: Financial analysis Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golde
Colorado 978-1-4244-4241-6/09/ 200
In financial analysis, the fuel rate for base IEEE
with proposed cases are compared even though [7] Creating Low-Cost Energy-Manageme
itial investment is high the payback period is Systems for Homes Using Non-Intrusiv
ess in some times it may be neglected also. Here Energy Monitoring Devices, Rebecca
oject life is considered for 30years. Sawyer, Jason M. Anderson, Edward Lan
Foulks, John O. Troxler, and Robert W. Co
V. CONCLUSIONS 978-1-4244-2893-9/09/ 2009 IEEE
The results obtained by using RETSCREEN [8] G.R.K.D.Satya Prasad, Dr. K. Vijaya Kum
re can be very realistic and gives very Reddy, Dr. CH. Saibabu M.Tech., Ph.D
sing results for Energy Efficient Buildings. The Integration of renewable energy sources
feature of this software is; it will integrates the Zero energy buildings with economical an
limatic conditions and hence planning of energy environmental aspects by using HOMER
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ada for giving the information regarding to and Ward T. Jewell, Fellow Analysis of th
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I. INTRODUCTION energies, and useful strategies to reduce carbo

a Lalita. P et al Int. Journal of Engineering Research and Application www.ijera.com

Fig.2: Building model

For a building, a state of balance practical

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ses, and a detailed user manual.

Fig 5: Building parameters

In this tool, enter the information about th

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