IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/renene/v145y2020icp294-307.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Thermal performance of a solar façade system for building ventilation in the southeast of Mexico

Author

Listed:
  • Hernández-López, I.
  • Xamán, J.
  • Zavala-Guillén, I.
  • Hernández-Pérez, I.
  • Moreno-Bernal, P.
  • Chávez, Y.

Abstract

An assessment of the thermal behavior of a room with a Solar Façade (SF) for ventilation under the tropical wet climate of the Mexican southeast zone is presented. Both a summer day and a winter day of Mérida Yucatán were considered. The effects of the size of the vents, thickness of the wall, channel width, location of the inlet air and the material of the wall were analyzed to obtain the optimal configuration of the SF. The optimal configuration was considered to simulate the thermal behavior of the SF considering two-dimensional flow. Results indicate that SF removed enough energy from the room to reduce the average temperature of the indoor air up to 9.1 °C compared to the ambient temperature. For the winter day, from 8 to 14 h, the SF increased the temperature of the indoor air on average 1 °C. According to the standard ASHRAE 62.2, the SF complies the ventilation requirements during 8 h. In addition, the natural ventilation supplied by the SF allows to reduce an electricity consumption equivalent to a fan shaft power up to 0.693 kWh per day. Based on the results, SF is highly recommended to be used in the Mexican southeast zone.

Suggested Citation

  • Hernández-López, I. & Xamán, J. & Zavala-Guillén, I. & Hernández-Pérez, I. & Moreno-Bernal, P. & Chávez, Y., 2020. "Thermal performance of a solar façade system for building ventilation in the southeast of Mexico," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 145(C), pages 294-307.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:renene:v:145:y:2020:i:c:p:294-307
    DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2019.06.026
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096014811930847X
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/j.renene.2019.06.026?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Lei Tang & Zhengtao Ai & Chunyan Song & Guoqiang Zhang & Zhengxuan Liu, 2021. "A Strategy to Maximally Utilize Outdoor Air for Indoor Thermal Environment," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(13), pages 1-13, July.
    2. Zhang, Haihua & Yang, Dong & Tam, Vivian W.Y. & Tao, Yao & Zhang, Guomin & Setunge, Sujeeva & Shi, Long, 2021. "A critical review of combined natural ventilation techniques in sustainable buildings," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 141(C).
    3. Liu, Huifang & Li, Peijia & Yu, Bendong & Zhang, Mingyi & Tan, Qianli & Wang, Yu, 2022. "The performance analysis of a high-efficiency dual-channel Trombe wall in winter," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 253(C).

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:renene:v:145:y:2020:i:c:p:294-307. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/renewable-energy .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.