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A case study on energy consumption and overheating for a UK industrial building with rooflights

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  • Wang, Xiaoxin
  • Kendrick, Christopher
  • Ogden, Raymond
  • Walliman, Nicholas
  • Baiche, Bousmaha

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Rooflights have become the common installations for industrial buildings to meet both the human health requirements for natural light and the need to save artificial lighting energy, especially for retail or distribution sheds that have big roof to floor area ratios and limitations of using glazing on side elevations. Since almost all of these buildings normally operate during daytime, an opportunity exists to save lighting energy by fitting automatic artificial lighting control. However, due to solar gains through the rooflights, the buildings are vulnerable to summer overheating. If overheating occurs regularly or over sustained periods, it will lead to the need for mechanical cooling, which inevitably results in more operational energy consumption in addition to the initial installation cost. To remedy this potential problem, natural ventilation through ridge openings is explored in this paper because it consumes almost no extra operational energy. Thermal modelling is therefore implemented with focus on influences of lighting control on energy consumption and effects of natural ventilation on reducing overheating. The modelling results indicate that lighting control can save lighting energy by 70% and the use of both ridge ventilation and lighting control can reduce overheating hours considerably, as internal heat is dissipated through the ridge openings and lighting heat gains are cut. In addition, converted from lighting and heating energy used, the overall CO2 reduction can reach 45% when both lighting control and ridge ventilation are applied. The findings from the study would encourage the use of rooflights for industrial buildings and would provide guidance on how to save operational energy while ensuring the thermal comfort inside the buildings.

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  • Wang, Xiaoxin & Kendrick, Christopher & Ogden, Raymond & Walliman, Nicholas & Baiche, Bousmaha, 2013. "A case study on energy consumption and overheating for a UK industrial building with rooflights," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 104(C), pages 337-344.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:appene:v:104:y:2013:i:c:p:337-344
    DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2012.10.047
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