Residential buildings consume about a third of the
UKs total energy and the need to reduce this as part
of achieving the 2050 CO2 emissions targets driving
the interest the modelling and performance simulation
of homes. While simulation and modelling tools are
in wide spread use, the detailed empirical data with
which to understand the effect of systems and operational
complexities of households on the consumption
of energy is less developed than it is for commercial
buildings. This paper reports some early results from
a whole house monitoring trial in the UK where high
resolution measurements of gas, hot water and power
are being used to disaggregate heat use. The study has
shown that: equipment used for domestic heat generation
varies considerably between households; gas
demand is highly variable at the sub-hourly level, far
greater than some of the available hourly monitored
data would suggest; and that the current information
on hot water consumption characteristics is poor and
so some new, more comprehensive data is presented.
Funding
This paper has forms part of the work produced under
the LEEDR: Low Effort Energy Demand Reduction
Project based at Loughborough University, UK. The
work was funded through the TEDDI call managed by
the RCUK Digital Economy and Energy programmes
[EPSRC Grant Number EP/I000267/1].
History
School
Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Research Unit
Centre for Renewable Energy Systems Technology (CREST)
Citation
BUSWELL, R.A. ... et al., 2013. Determining heat use in residential buildings using high resolution gas and domestic hot water monitoring. IN: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of the International Building Performance Simulation Association, Chambery, France, 25-28 August 2013, pp. 2412 - 2419.
Publisher
IBPSA
Version
AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
2013
Notes
This paper was presented at Building Simulation 2013: the 13th Conference of International Building Performance Simulation Association, Chambéry, France, 25-28 August 2013, http://www.bs2013.fr/