ABSTRACT
With the growing tension of global energy consumption, as well as the continuous
improvement of people's living standards, whether the indoor air-conditioning thermal
environment is comfortable and healthful and air-conditioning operation is
energy-saving have become the focus of attention. Stratified air-conditioning as one of
energy-saving technology has been applied and promoted in the large space building.
On this basis, in order to further reduce air-conditioning energy consumption and
improve indoor thermal environment, the research on utilization of outdoor natural
cold resources to the maximum is the focus of this paper. In this paper, based on taking
both the lower ventilation and the upper stratified air-conditioning running into
consideration at the same time, the idea of bringing in hybrid of both the stratified
air-conditioning and the upper ventilation comes into being , and it can make use of
natural cold resources to take away some part of heat retention of non-air-conditioning
area through the upper ventilation to reduce the air-conditioning energy
consumption .The subject raised and research results will give a reference to
energy-saving running of large space building air-conditioning.
Building energy consumption is closely relevant to indoor air-conditioning load,
and in order to work out a better way of reducing energy consumption in
air-conditioning large space building, firstly the Expo building experimental base is
taken as an study object in this paper, and then a series of theoretical calculations and
analysis enclosing large space building air-conditioning load and variety characteristics
of the thermal transfer volume along with various factors are made, and lastly
discussions on calculation methods adopted are made.
To fully reflect the law of the impact of the stratified air-conditioning coupled
with the upper ventilation on thermal environment in the large space building ,
according to test results of indoor air temperature distribution of eco-building, in the
first place wall surface temperature of building envelope, natural ventilation volume,
and indoor thermal environment are analyzed under two conditions of the upper
ventilation or not at stratified air-conditioning ,and secondly the validity of the upper
ventilation and the stratified air-conditioning was proved, both of which provide a
experimental basis for theory research of upper ventilation validity .
In this paper, numerical simulation methods are adopted to establish a simple
zoning model of large space to analyze the influence of the upper ventilation to the
indoor thermal environment. The model is based on the multi-zone heat and mass
balance principle, and indoor air heat and mass balance equation is established and
made corresponding amendment according to such factors of the upper opening and
interior heat source,, simultaneously coupled with equations of wall heat conductivity,
convection, heat transfer, radiation of non-air-conditioning area, thereby the indoor air
average temperature and the envelope wall surface temperature of non-air-conditioning
area were gained through calculation. Then the effect of the upper ventilation to
air-conditioning load is got by taking above solution as the calculation conditions of
stratified air conditioning load of eco-building, which provides a basis for application