Lecture 09 Windows and Daylighting.pptVIP

April 2003 EnergyPlus Workshop for Beginning Modelers - Part 1 Lecture 9: Windows and Daylighting Importance of this Lecture to the Simulation of Buildings Every building is different in many ways: Location/exterior environment Construction/building envelope Space usage/interior environment HVAC system Building consume approximately one-third of all energy used nationally—lighting accounts for about one third of building energy use Daylighting has the potential to significantly reduce the amount of energy spent on lighting Proper modeling of windows is important to both daylighting studies and energy analysis since it has a significant impact on both of these areas Purpose of this Lecture Gain an understanding of how to Specify windows in EnergyPlus Specify and control daylighting features within a zone Keywords Covered in this Lecture Material:WindowGlass Material:WindowGas Material:WindowGasMixture Material:WindowShade Material:WindowBlind WindowShadingControl WindowFrameAndDivider WindowGapAirFlowControl Daylighting:Simple and Daylighting:Detailed Windows Material:WindowGlass Non-opaque solid layer used to construct windows Material:WindowGas Non-opaque gaseous layer used to construct windows Gas type can be: Air, Argon, Krypton, Xenon, or Custom Custom requires properties (curve fit coefficients) for conductivity, viscosity, and specific heat as well as the gas molecular weight Material:WindowGasMixture Allows a custom mixture of gases to construct a non-opaque gaseous layer used for windows Gas type can be: Air, Argon, Krypton, or Xenon User defines up to four gases in mixture Constructing Windows Same as a regular construction definition except using window glass, window gas, and/or window gas mixture Material:WindowShade Allows specification of window shades Becomes part of window shading control Material:WindowBlind Allows specification of window blinds Becomes part of window shading control Example on next slide… More examples from DOE-2 library in file Wi