Modeling of Thermal Comfort Parameters in Residential Buildings

Abstract

At the level of residential buildings, current studies and research are focused on issues that have as a main priority, the energy of buildings. Energy efficiency of buildings involves, in addition to technical regulations and energy rehabilitation works, an economic optimization of energy in buildings. This optimization must not be done at random, but we must ensure that the conditions of thermal comfort inside the building are met at all times. In this paper, the object of the study is a room located in the middle of a condominium building in Craiova. The building of which the studied room is part is located inside the locality and has constructive structure of the tire elements, characterized by specific thermal resistances of the construction materials used. The mathematical model involves determining the values of thermal comfort parameters (indoor temperature, average radiation temperature, etc.) and their implementation in the calculation of the thermal comfort index, B. The results obtained for the three categories of rooms, allow the feeling of comfort to be included in one of the seven levels. Between the three types of studied rooms there are differences of the calculated interior temperatures, due to the temperature differences on the faces of the construction elements. images