Investigation of novel integration of natural ventilation windcatcher and rotary passive heat recovery system
In this work,a novel design incorporating a passive heat recovery device into a windcatcher was proposed and investigated using numerical and experimental analysis.The proposed system incorporates a rotary thermal heat recovery in the windcatcher channel.Computational Fluid Dynamics(CFD)was used to investigate the effect of the heat recovery device on the performance of the windcatcher,highlighting the capabilities of the system to deliver the required fresh air rates.The windcatcher model was incorporated to a 5m × 5m × 3m test room model representing a small classroom.The study employed the CFD code Fluent18 with the k-epsilon model to conduct the simulations.The numerical model provided detailed analysis of the airflow and temperature distribution inside the test room.A 1:10 scale prototype of the system was created and tested experimentally in a closed-loop subsonic wind tunnel to validate the CFD investigations.Despite the blockage of the rotary heat recovery wheel,ventilation rates were able to provide adequate ventilation.In addition to sufficient ventilation,the heat in the exhaust airstreams was captured and transferred to the incoming airstream,raising the temperature up to 2K,this passive recovery has the potential to reduce demand on space heating systems.This shows that the concept has significant potential to be developed further,whereby the heat transfer properties of the system can be investigated and tested on a larger scale.
buildings CFD heat recovery natural ventilation passive system
John CALAUTIT Dominic OCONNOR Ben HUGHES Lewis CAMERON
Department of Architecture and Built Environment,University of Nottingham,Nottingham NG72RD Free Running Buildings Ltd.,Leeds Innovation Centre,103 Clarendon Road,Leeds,LS2 9DF Department of Mechanical Engineering,University of Sheffield,Sheffield S10 2TN
国际会议
武汉
英文
326-331
2018-08-21（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）