scholarly journals Design of residential buildings utilizing natural thermal storage. Final report

1979 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Lewis ◽  
C. Michal ◽  
P. Pietz
Keyword(s):  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Thermal Storage ◽  
Final Report

Using Forecasted Daily Maximum Temperatures to Control a Chiller Thermal Storage System

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Baldwin ◽  
Cynthia A. Cruickshank
Keyword(s):  
Storage Tank ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Storage System ◽  
Peak Load ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
Thermal Storage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Daily Maximum ◽  
Cooling Load ◽  
Control Scheme

Residential buildings in Canada and the United States are responsible for approximately 20% of secondary energy consumption. Over the past 25 years, air conditioning has seen the single largest increase of any residential end use. This load currently places a significant peak load on the electrical grid during later afternoon periods during the cooling season. One method to reduce or eliminate this peak load being placed in the grid is the use of a chiller coupled with a thermal storage system. The chiller operates during off-peak periods, predominately over-night to charge the thermal storage tank, and the stored cooling potential is realized to meet the cooling loads during peak periods. In previous studies, the use of a chiller has seen a reduction in annual operating costs, however a significant increase in energy occurs as a result of decreased performance of the chiller. To improve system performance, a new control scheme was developed, which uses the forecasted daily high for the next day to predict the cooling load for the day during peak periods for the day. The predicted cooling load is then used as the set-point for the cold thermal storage tank, allowing the peak cooling load to be met using stored cooling potential. This control scheme was implemented into a modelled house located in each of the 7 major ASHRAE zones, with a storage tank with a previously found optimal tank volume. Across each of the locations, a reduction in annual utility costs and overall energy required to meet the building loads observed, with the total cost savings between 0.3% and 1.5% and total electricity required to meet the cooling demand decreasing by as much as 10.2%.

scholarly journals Applications of Active Hollow Core Slabs and Insulated Concrete Foam Walls as Thermal Storage in Cold Climate Residential Buildings

2015 ◽  
Vol 78 ◽  
pp. 459-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Navid Ekrami ◽  
Raghad S. Kamel ◽  
Anais Garat ◽  
Afarin Amirirad ◽  
Alan S. Fung
Keyword(s):  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Thermal Storage ◽  
Cold Climate ◽  
Hollow Core

scholarly journals Integration of Micro-Cogeneration Units and Electric Storages into a Micro-Scale Residential Solar District Heating System Operating with a Seasonal Thermal Storage

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (20) ◽  
pp. 5456
Author(s):  
Antonio Rosato ◽  
Antonio Ciervo ◽  
Giovanni Ciampi ◽  
Michelangelo Scorpio ◽  
Sergio Sibilio
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Electric Energy ◽  
District Heating ◽  
Thermal Storage ◽  
Hot Water ◽  
District Heating System ◽  
Domestic Hot Water ◽  
Micro Scale ◽  
Gas Fueled

A micro-scale district heating network based on the operation of solar thermal collectors coupled to a long-term borehole thermal storage is modeled, simulated and investigated over a period of five years. The plant is devoted to covering the domestic hot water and space heating demands of a district composed of six typical residential buildings located in Naples (southern Italy). Three alternative natural gas-fueled back-up auxiliary systems (condensing boiler and two different technologies of micro-cogeneration) aiming at balancing the solar energy intermittency are investigated. The utilization of electric storages in combination with the cogeneration systems is also considered with the aim of improving the self-consumption of cogenerated electric energy; heat recovery from the distribution circuit is also evaluated to pre-heat the mains water for domestic hot water production. The performances of the proposed plant schemes are contrasted with those of a typical Italian decentralized heating plant (based on the utilization of natural gas-fueled non-condensing boilers). The comparison highlighted that the proposed configurations can decrease the primary energy consumption (up to 11.3%), the equivalent emissions of carbon dioxide (up to 11.3%), and the operation costs (up to 14.3%), together with an acceptable simple pay-back period (about 4.4 years).

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