Quantifying CO2 Emissions and Energy Production from Power Plants to Run HVAC Systems in ASHRAE-Based Buildings
| dc.contributor.author | Alrebei, Odi Fawwaz | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Obeidat, Bushra | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Al-Radaideh, Tamer | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Le Page, Laurent M. | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Hewlett, Sally | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Al Assaf, Anwar H. | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Amhamed, Abdulkarem I. | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-11-29T13:18:13Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2022-11-29T13:18:13Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2022-11-22 | en |
| dc.date.updated | 2022-11-24T14:43:29Z | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Recent evidence available in the literature has highlighted that the high-energy consumption rate associated with air conditioning leads to the undesired “overcooling” condition in arid-climate regions. To this end, this study quantified the effects of increasing the cooling setpoint temperature on reducing energy consumption and CO<sub>2</sub> emissions to mitigate overcooling. DesignBuilder software was used to simulate the performance of a generic building operating under the currently adopted ASHRAE HVAC criteria. It was found that increasing the cooling setpoint temperature by 1 °C will increase the operative temperature by approximately 0.25 °C and reduce the annual cooling electricity consumption required for each 1 m<sup>2</sup> of an occupied area by approximately 8 kWh/year. This accounts for a reduction of 8% in cooling energy consumption compared to the ASHRAE cooling setpoint (i.e., t_s = 26 °C) and a reduction in the annual CO<sub>2</sub> emission rate to roughly 4.8 kg/m<sup>2</sup> °C. The largest reduction in cooling energy consumption and CO<sub>2</sub> emissions was found to occur in October, with reduced rates of approximately–1.3 kWh/m<sup>2</sup> °C and −0.8 kg/m<sup>2</sup> °C, respectively. | en |
| dc.description.version | Published version | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Alrebei, O.F.; Obeidat, B.; Al-Radaideh, T.; Le Page, L.M.; Hewlett, S.; Al Assaf, A.H.; Amhamed, A.I. Quantifying CO2 Emissions and Energy Production from Power Plants to Run HVAC Systems in ASHRAE-Based Buildings. Energies 2022, 15, 8813. | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.3390/en15238813 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/112725 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | MDPI | en |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en |
| dc.subject | ASHRAE | en |
| dc.subject | CO2 emissions | en |
| dc.subject | energy consumption | en |
| dc.subject | indoor operative temperature | en |
| dc.subject | arid-climate regions | en |
| dc.title | Quantifying CO2 Emissions and Energy Production from Power Plants to Run HVAC Systems in ASHRAE-Based Buildings | en |
| dc.title.serial | Energies | en |
| dc.type | Article - Refereed | en |
| dc.type.dcmitype | Text | en |