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Proceedings of SimBuild Conference 2004: 1st conference of IBPSA-USA

     

The Development of Improved Energy Efficient Housing for Thailand Utilizing Renewable Energy Technology

Sakkara Rasisuttha, Jeff Haberl
Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand
Department of Architecture, Energy Systems Laboratory, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas

Abstract: The paper reports on the results of research to reduce energy consumption in residential buildings in a hot and humid climate region (Thailand) using efficient architectural building components, energy efficient building systems, and renewable energy systems (solar energy) to produce electricity and heat domestic hot water. The solar energy system used in the analysis of the supplemental energy was a hybrid photovoltaicthermal (PV-T 2) collector system, which is a combination photovoltaic (for producing electricity) and solar thermal collector (for producing hot water), and night-time radiator for radiating unwanted heat to the night sky. The research methods used in this work included instrumentation of a case study house, experimental data collected from an experimental PV-T 2 collector system (Rasisuttha 2004), and calibrated building thermal simulation using DOE-2 (LBNL, 1982; 2000).
Pages: 1 - 10
Paper:
simbuild2004_SB04T2B2