Analysis and Evaluation of Thermal-cooling Loads of Office Buildings Using Carrier Software in Iran

The importance and necessity of energy saving in the world have been dis­cussed for many years,but achieving a logical and transparent solution is still one of the main challenges and problems of the world’s economy.The rapid growth of energy consumption in the last two decades has caused the security of the domestic energy supply of buildings to face serious prob­lems.In this research,first by entering parameters such as the type of mate­rials,doors and windows,and the type of soil on the floor connected to the ground,etc.in the heat and cold load calculation software(HAP Carrier)as the design calculations and then in the second step entering the specifica­tions inferred from the Iran’s national building code as a reference for ener­gy saving calculations,calculations are performed and compared as the first criterion,and finally these two outputs are compared.The actual energy consumption and determination of the building energy consumption index are determined as another criterion,as well as the degree of deviation from the actual consumption.The results showed that the theoretical method and the thermal and refrigeration load calculations of the Zanjan Gas Company building have 6%difference in cooling load but the heating load is about 34%different,which means for cooling loads,the theoretical model can be used with high accuracy but for heating loads,the national building code needs fundamental changes.

Application of Computer Integration Technology for Fire Safety Analysis

With the development of information technology, the fire safety assessment of whole structure or region based on the computer simulation has become a hot topic. However, traditionally, the concerned studies are performed separately for different objectives and difficult to perform an overall evaluation. A new multi-dimensional integration model and methodology for fire safety assessment were presented and two newly developed integrated systems were introduced to demonstrate the function of integration simulation technology in this paper. The first one is the analysis on the fire-resistant behaviors of whole structure under real fire loads. The second one is the study on fire evaluation and emergency rescue of campus based on geography information technology (GIS). Some practical examples are presented to illuminate the advantages of computer integration technology on fire safety assessment and emphasize some problems in the simulation. The results show that the multi-dimensional integration model offers a new way and platform for the integrating fire safety assessment of whole structure or region, and the integrated software developed is the useful engineering tools for cost-saving and safe design.

A numerical study on the effect of column layout on air distribution and performance of column attachment ventilation

Based on the structural characteristics of existing buildings and the disadvantages of current mixed ventilation mode in the application to large space buildings,an original column attachment ventilation(CAV)has been proposed.In this study,the experiment utilized a room space with four columns uniformly distributed in the space to visualize the movement of attached airflow along the cylinder surface and the floor,the numerical technique was employed to study the effects of the column layout(i.e.,uniform,centralized,dispersed,and crossed distribution)on the air distribution of CAV mode in a standard four-column full scale model of a shopping mall.Seven indices,including airflow pattern,air diffusion performance index(ADPI),air temperature distribution,heat removal effectiveness,draught rate(DR),predicted mean vote(PMV),and carbon dioxide(CO2)concentration,were used to assess the ventilation performance.In the CAV mode with a uniform column layout scheme,the experimental results indicated that the air supply flows downward along the wall surface,forming a secondary attachment with the ground and spreading along the floor in a fan radiation flow mode.Further,an“air lake”-like speed and temperature distribution similar to displacement ventilation(DV)was formed in the occupied zone.In all simulation cases,it was found that the average air velocity was less than 0.25 m/s in occupied zone,the effectiveness for heat removal was more significant than 1.0,DR value was less than 20%,the PMV level can also satisfy most people.The average CO2 concentration was around 470 ppm in the occupied breathing zone.These results indicated that the CAV mode could be an efficient air distribution method.They demonstrated the technical feasibility of applying the CAV in the space under different column layout schemes.