Assessment of the energy performance of the solar space system attached to the CE – INCERC Bucharest experimental house – experimental validation

Abstract

The INCERC Bucharest experimental house is equipped on the Southern façade with a ventilated solar space. The solar space ensures the ventilation of the entire building at a constant rate of 0.60 exchanges / h during the cold season, by inletting the pre-heated space in the greenhouse space. In the hot season the system ensures the building reversible ventilation by providing the fresh air rate by air suction in the building Northern zone, a consequence of the natural draught effect ensured by the solar space. This report presents the experiments performed in the season 2008-2009 and the experimental validation of the mathematical model used in assessing the solar space energy performance in the heating season.

Keywords

• energy performance of buildings
• ventilated solar space
• building ventilation
• mathematical model for performance evaluation of space solar power
• solar energy