Walid Abou-Hweij; Albert Al Touma; Kamel Ghali; Nesreen Ghaddar · 10.1016/j.enbuild.2017.01.071 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2017.01.071
Energy and Buildings
Building ventilation
Numerical / CFD
2017
Energy and Buildings
no
2017-01-27 12:00:00 00003050
evaporatively-cooled window driven by solar chimney to improve energy efficiency and thermal comfort in dry desert climate
2017
Energy and Buildings
Walid Abou-Hweij; Albert Al Touma; Kamel Ghali; Nesreen Ghaddar
10.1016/j.enbuild.2017.01.071
Summary
An office facade in Riyadh's hot, dry climate is fitted with an evaporatively cooled window, with a solar chimney driving the airflow. Linking a simplified system model, CFD of the room and a bio-heat comfort model, the authors find afternoon comfort ratings that are clearly positive, up to about 2, and energy savings of up to 10%.
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