Publication detail

SOLAR CHIMNEYS FOR RESIDENTIAL VENTILATION

CHARVÁT, P., JÍCHA, M., ŠTĚTINA, J.

Original Title

SOLAR CHIMNEYS FOR RESIDENTIAL VENTILATION

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

An increasing impact of ventilation and air-conditioning to the total energy consumption of buildings has drawn attention to natural ventilation and passive cooling. The very common way of natural ventilation in residential buildings is passive stack ventilation. The passive stack ventilation relies on the stack effect created by the temperature difference between air temperature inside and outside a building. A solar chimney represents an option how to improve the performance of passive stack ventilation on hot sunny days, when there is a small difference between indoor and outdoor air temperature. The full-scale solar chimneys have been built and tested at the Department of Thermodynamics and Environmental Engineering at the Brno University of Technology. The main goal of the experiments is to investigate performance of solar chimneys under the climatic conditions of the Czech Republic. Two different constructions of a solar chimney have been tested; a light weight construction and the construction with thermal mass.

Key words in English

solar chimney, residential ventilation, passive cooling

Authors

CHARVÁT, P., JÍCHA, M., ŠTĚTINA, J.

RIV year

2004

Released

15. 9. 2004

ISBN

2-9600355-6-9

Book

25th AIVC Conference - Ventilation and Retrofitting

Pages from

19

Pages to

24

Pages count

6

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT12802,
  author="Pavel {Charvát} and Miroslav {Jícha} and Josef {Štětina}",
  title="SOLAR CHIMNEYS FOR RESIDENTIAL VENTILATION",
  booktitle="25th AIVC Conference - Ventilation and Retrofitting",
  year="2004",
  pages="6",
  isbn="2-9600355-6-9"
}