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Low-Energy Indoor Climate

Building: BCIT SW1 Gateway Building & PRCN Laboratories, Winnipeg (in progress)

Goal – The goal of this project is to study the performance of active beams, a low primary flow and low energy technology, in cooling and heating offices under varying boundary conditions.

Methods:

  • Office-field and laboratory experimental measurements
  • Computational fluid dynamics simulations
  • Metrics: thermal comfort quality, ventilation effectiveness, beam induction ratio

Poster:

ACB Poster October 2018 Rohit Upadhyay

Publications:

Upadhyay R., Mora R. (2019). Performance Evaluation of Active Chilled Beam (ACB) in Real Office Conditions in a High-Performance Building, ASHRAE Winter Conference, Atlanta, January 2019. ASHRAE PAPER Active Beams 2019

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