Experimental investigation of convective heat transfer during night cooling with different ventilation systems and surface emissivities

► Experimental investigation of convective heat transfer in a test room. ► Specificity of existing correlations. ► Use of local values of velocity gives good prediction of the CHTC. ► Surface emissivity influences the CHTC. Night-time ventilation is a promising approach to reduce the energy needed f...

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Published in:Energy and buildings 2013-06, Vol.61, p.308-317
Main Authors: Le Dréau, J., Heiselberg, P., Jensen, R.L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Applied sciences
Building technical equipments
Buildings
Buildings. Public works
Civil Engineering
Computation methods. Tables. Charts
Construction durable
Convective heat transfer coefficient
Correlations
Displacement ventilation
Energy management and energy conservation in building
Engineering Sciences
Environmental engineering
Exact sciences and technology
Full-scale experiments
Local CHTC
Low-emissivity
Mixed convection
Mixing ventilation
Night-time ventilation
Radiation pattern
Structural analysis. Stresses
Ventilation. Air conditioning
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Summary:► Experimental investigation of convective heat transfer in a test room. ► Specificity of existing correlations. ► Use of local values of velocity gives good prediction of the CHTC. ► Surface emissivity influences the CHTC. Night-time ventilation is a promising approach to reduce the energy needed for cooling buildings without reducing thermal comfort. Nevertheless actual building simulation tools have showed their limits in predicting accurately the efficiency of night-time ventilation, mainly due to inappropriate models for convection. In a full-scale test room, the heat transfer was investigated during 12h of discharge by night-time ventilation. A total of 34 experiments have been performed, with different ventilation types (mixing and displacement), air change rates, temperature differences between the inlet air and the room, and floor emissivities. This extensive experimental study enabled a detailed analysis of the convective and radiative flow at the different surfaces of the room. The experimentally derived convective heat transfer coefficients (CHTC) have been compared to existing correlations. For mixing ventilation, existing correlations did not predict accurately the convective heat transfer at the ceiling due to differences in the experimental conditions. But the use of local parameters of the air flow showed interesting results to obtain more adaptive CHTC correlations. For displacement ventilation, the convective heat transfer was well predicted by existing correlations. Nevertheless the change of floor emissivity influenced the CHTC at the surface of interest.
ISSN:0378-7788
DOI:10.1016/j.enbuild.2013.02.021