opportunities for energy efficiency in buildings
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Opportunities for Energy Efficiency in Buildings
Leon Glicksman
Building Technology Program
School of Architecture and Planning
School of Engineering
May 26, 2011
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U.S. Energy Flow 2004 Traditional Solution Focus
DOE Energy Information Admin.
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U.S. Energy Flow 2004 Neglected Focus
DOE Energy Information Admin.
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Energy Efficient Buildings
• Building Efficiency is an Important Solution to Energy Problem
• Cost Effective when Done Properly
• Requires Integrated Approach
• Important Contributions – New Technology
– New Assessment Tools: Virtual Building
• Challenges in the future
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U.S. Buildings
•39 % of total energy ( in UK 50 % )
•72 % of electricity
•90% of time spent indoors
•Major health problems: indoor climate
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2004 U.S. Buildings End Use
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2004 Residential End Uses
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2004 Commercial Buildings End Use
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2004 Commercial Buildings End Use
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Physical Limits of Performance
Commercial Buildings For example: green roof, cool roof?? Zero net energy high rise? Cover entire surface with PV, what % of building energy?
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Wind
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Economic Limits
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Electric Power Costs Technology Cents/kWe-hr
Nuclear 4-7
Gas/Combined Cycle 4-6
Coal 4
Sources: Deutch and Moniz, MIT study 2003; Langcake, Renewable Energy World, 2003; Kats, California study, 2003
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Electric Power Costs Technology Cents/kWe-hr
Nuclear 4-7
Gas/Combined Cycle 4-6
Coal 4
Renewable
Wind 3-8
Biomass (25MW) 4-9
Small Hydro 5-10
Solar Thermal Electric 12-18
Solar PV 30-80
Sources: Deutch and Moniz, MIT study 2003; Langcake, Renewable Energy World, 2003; Kats, California study, 2003
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Electric Power Costs Technology Cents/kWe-hr
Nuclear 4-7
Gas/Combined Cycle 4-6
Coal 4
Renewable
Wind 3-8
Biomass (25MW) 4-9
Small Hydro 5-10
Solar Thermal Electric 12-18
Solar PV 30-80
Efficiency of Consumption
Advanced Buildings 0-6
Sources: Glicksman Physics Today 2008 Deutch and Moniz, MIT study 2003; Langcake, Renewable Energy World, 2003; Kats, California study, 2003
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Energy Efficient Buildings
• Building Efficiency is an Important Solution to Energy Problem
• Cost Effective when Done Properly
• Why don’t more US homes adopt efficient measures?
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Barriers
• Conservative Industry
• Fragmented Field
• Lowest First Cost
• Lack of Incentives
• Poor Education
• Lack of information
– Performance Projections
– Results from New Buildings
• Linear Designs
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There’s no single silver bullet to solve the energy problem
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There’s silver buckshot
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Building Technology Program at MIT
• Joint program Architecture and Engineering • 5 full time faculty • 25 graduate students • Research on the next generation of technology
– Materials – Energy efficient operations – Community level impact
• Research on integrated design – Optimized design – Trade off: energy efficiency- renewables
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Design Advisor for Architects
Different Design Scenarios
Virtual Design Tools - some examples: MIT Design Advisor
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Supply
-Renewables
-Distributed generation
Demand
“Negawatts”
– Energy efficiency
– Smart controls
– Smart people
Toward net zero energy systems
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ABU-DHABI MASDAR DEVELOPMENT Goal: Zero Carbon
Foster and Partners
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Energy Use vs Additional Capital Cost Above Baseline Commercial Building
PV $4/W over 5 years.
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Total Cost vs Capital Cost
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Updated output
$4/W over 5 years.
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Natural Ventilation
Luton, England MIT- Cambridge University Monitoring and Simulation MIT CoolVent Design Program
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Test Building 2 Philip Merrill Environmental Center
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Airflow Path
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Natural Ventilated Building, Luton England
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Luton Building Interior
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Day
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Luton Interior Temperatures: August 2003
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Natural Ventilation: Wind scoop
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Natural Ventilation: Wind scoop
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Zion National Part Visitor Center
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Floor area ~ 500 m2
Chimney area ~ 9 m2
to vent 5 floors
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CoolVent
• Ventilation and Air Flows
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Open fume hoods: Energy Loss
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Energy Efficient Ventilation Design for New Cancer Research Facility
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Swedish Homes
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Comfortable
No Central
Heating
System!
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Aerogel insulation using nanotechnology
Aspen Aerogel
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Commercially available aerogel for insulation purposes
• Granules or aerogel particles embedded in a fiber blanket • Thermal properties: 14-20 mW/mK • Our objective: practical aerogel insulation systems with improved
performance
Cabot Nanogel® particles and Thermal Wrap™
Aspen Aerogel™ Spaceloft®
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Straw Insulation
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Use of Solar Energy
• Acceptable Interior Lighting Level :
1/10 to 1/100 of exterior level
• Associated thermal load of solar less than that for artificial lighting
• How to control it?
• How to bring it deeper into interior?
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Enhancing daylight deeper in rooms
• Anidolics (based on non-imaging
optics: research made at LESO-
PB/EPFL)
– Photos show 2 identical rooms at the
same time, one equipped with an anidolic
system, the other without
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Full Scale Test in Tokyo of Window Unit
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Building Condition Monitoring
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China ~ 10 M new residence units/year!
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We conducted surveys with three groups of Chinese consumers:
1. Visitors to the Tian Hong sales office in Beijing,
2. Other potential home-buyers in Beijing, and
3. Chinese nationals at MIT.
Tian Hong is a new “affordable” housing development in Beijing priced at 2600 RMB ($313) per sq. m.
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Beijing Survey: What are the 3 most important characteristics of a home?
0 5 10 15 20 25
Building type
Building height
Building Materials
Price
Public space
Space/Floor plan
Services
Location
Transportation
No. of Respondents
Survey: Three Most Important Features of Home
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Published Fall 2006
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