Next-generation dedicated outdoor air cooling systems for low-energy buildings

Building operations take up more than 40% of the overall energy consumption in the United States, among which cooling energy comprises an especially significant part in hot and humid climates. To achieve low-energy and low-carbon building communities, it is necessary to design high-performance building enclosures and develop energy-efficient cooling technologies and systems. High-level prescriptive code requirements for low-energy buildings are available but details of building envelope construction are missing in the literature. Previous studies have primarily focused on analyzing one type of new technology or its applications in a particular climate, while a systematic comparison is needed to address the prospects and limitations of each system. In this thesis, thermodynamic analysis has been performed on dedicated outdoor air cooling systems (DOAS).

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctoral

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• Chen, Tianyi,Ph. D.Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Leslie K. Norford.

• Mechanical Engineering.

Statement dc:rights

• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123766

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/123766