per day), ventilation strategies have a minor influence on heating energy demand.
The air may be either heated by coils in the supply air or by radiators in the room.
The energy use for heating does not change significantly in all climates.
The tightness of the building envelope has a large influence, up to a factor of
two, on the heating energy need. When high infiltration occurs, humidity is also
reduced in winter.
Cooling
Cold ceilings are more effective than air conditioning. For the same airflow rate
and same comfort conditions, more energy was required for cooling using air
conditioning than with the hydronic cooling ceiling.
Lowering the set point for cooling from 268Cto248C causes an augmenta-
tion of the cooling demand of the zones by a factor of three to eight, depending
on the geographic location.
A droplet catcher downwind of a cooling coil has a negligible effect on
energy demand, but may be essential to avoid humidifying downstream filters
or acoustic dampers, cha nging them to biotopes.
Filters
Using a two-stage filter system instead of an old F7 filter leads to an increase
in electric power use for fans of 10–15 per cent, depending on the pressure
difference over the sy stem.
Again, depending on the pressure difference over the system, earlier
replacement of a filter results in a decrease in fan power consumption by 2–3
per cent.
Humidification
In the northern (Oslo) and central locations (London and Zu
¨
rich), humidi-
fying the supply air at 30 per cent minimum relative humidity requires about
20–25 per cent more energy fo r ventilation than without humidi fication. In
the southern climate (Rome), the increase is only 3 per cent, mainly because
humidification is seldom required. In all climates, humidifying the supply air
at 30 per cent increases the total heating energy need by 5–10 per cent, while
this need almost doubles if the relative humidity is set at 50 per cent.
Heat recovery
Without heat recovery, the heating energy use for ventilation is 70–140 per cent
more than with medium efficiency (50 per cent) heat recovery.
Heat recovery with high efficiency (75 per cent) – such as those achieved by
well-installed rotating heat exchangers in airtight buildings – leads to a reduc-
tion of the heating energ y demand for ventilation by about 30 per cent,
compared to medium efficiency (50 per cent) heat recovery. That means that
the 3 per cent reduction in efficiency caused by installing a purging sector in
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