The Operational and Maintenance Specificity of Heating Systems Depending on the Thermal Inertia of Buildings

Proceedings of REHVA Annual Conference 2015 2015
Viktors Zēbergs, Namejs Zeltiņš, Gita Actiņa, Visvaldis Vrubļevskis

The paper formulates the role of thermal inertia of the building materials in the supply of buildings with energy and in solution of the energy efficiency problems. The evolution of construction entails application of new building materials and glazed surfaces in the envelopes of buildings. An analysis of the influence of the thermal resistance of building materials and their heat capacity on the thermal inertia indicators of buildings has been conducted. An inertia scale of buildings has been developed for the choice of the heat supply capacities of buildings at low outdoor temperatures under extreme conditions of the Latvian climate. The ratio of the ventilation capacities has been analysed in the total heating balance at a low thermal inertia of buildings. The significance of innovative ventilation technologies for raising the energy efficiency has been considered.

Keywords
sustainable buildings, energy efficiency, thermal inertia of buildings

Zēbergs, V., Zeltiņš, N., Actiņa, G., Vrubļevskis, V. The Operational and Maintenance Specificity of Heating Systems Depending on the Thermal Inertia of Buildings. In: Proceedings of REHVA Annual Conference 2015, Latvia, Rīga, 6-9 May, 2015. Rīga: RTU Press, 2015, pp.210-214. ISBN 978-9934-10-685-9.

Publication language
English (en)