tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481805122799385345.post7720556914365512159..comments2023-06-28T08:23:09.466-07:00Comments on southsidedelight simple, low carbon home comfort: PHPP design process in detailAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09058843778451883545noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481805122799385345.post-77946896361082980502010-06-08T14:35:00.350-07:002010-06-08T14:35:00.350-07:00http://www.passivhaustagung.de/Passive_House_E/pas...http://www.passivhaustagung.de/Passive_House_E/passivehouse_definition.htmlAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09058843778451883545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481805122799385345.post-72874210522252497822010-06-08T14:32:00.933-07:002010-06-08T14:32:00.933-07:00That notion of heat recover surely appeals to me.
...That notion of heat recover surely appeals to me.<br />There are several canadian built heat recovery units available, usually rotating drums with plastic screens, which return warmth to the incoming airstream.<br />They tend to be low volume as they are meant for the whole house venting system at 50 CFM or thereabouts.<br />This technology makes a lot of sense in cold climates, I would couple it to a Co2 switch to only activate the fan when there is occupancy, or a need.<br />My work is building the heat scavenger to extract heat from warm solar heated air into my DHW pre heat tank, a very low cost, low impact, no copper tubing, no differential thermostat, no imported collectors, no fancy aluminum sealed boxes with tempered glass, i have a hollow sheetmetal box much like a hotwater radiator, but air flows up and out by natural thermosyphon, gives up heat to a fin coil heat exchanger, the cooler air returns to the collector if outside temp is below air temp, otherwise air is exhausted through cupola in ridge.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09058843778451883545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481805122799385345.post-18223144425779747222010-06-08T13:53:50.739-07:002010-06-08T13:53:50.739-07:00The Passive House is not an energy performance sta...The Passive House is not an energy performance standard, but a concept to achive highest thermal comfort conditions on low total costs - this is the correct definition:<br /><br />"A Passive House ist a building, for which thermal comfort (ISO 7730) can be achived solely by postheating or postcooling of the fresh air mass, which is required to fullfill sufficient indoor air quality conditions (DIN 1946) - without a need for recirculated air."<br /><br />This is a purely functional definition. It does not need any numerical value and it is independend of climate. From this definition it is clear, that the Passive House is not an arbitrary standard enacted by somebody, but a fundamential concept. Passive Houses have not been "invented", but the conditions to use the passive principle has been discovered. One could argue about, whether the noun "Passive House" is adequat to denote this concept. Well - there is no better one. Thermal comfort is delivered in a Passive House by passive measures as far as reasonable (insulation, heat recovery in the temperature gradient, passive utilized solar energy and internal heat loads). To use only passive measures might be possible in some climates - but it will not be reasonable in most of them.<br /><br />An even better understanding we get from the following practical considerations:<br /><br />1) In airtight houses one always needs a ventilation system (ask the Sweds). All really energy efficient houses have to be airtight. That means, that with the Passive House concept the technical component "ventilation system", which one needs anyhow, will be sufficient to heat (and to cool) the building without additional ducts, hugher duct diameters, additional ventilators,...<br /><br />Remark for readers from America: You are used to have air based heating and cooling systems (thats why you call it "air conditioning"). But the systems used in America are almost all just recirculating indoor air at a quite high rate (> 10 ach, but the air is not "changed", it is just recirculated). The system discussed here is something very different: It replaces the indoor air with a very low rate (0.3 to 0.6 ach) with external air to maintain a good indoor air quality. There is no recirculated air. The airflows are much lower, there is almost no noise and no draft at all. Well, the use of such a system might be very similar to the ones you are used to - but quite more comfortable.<br /><br />2) This concept makes it possible, to construct buildings with a very efficient heat recovery and to do that cost-effective. This is difficult in other cases, because heat recovery systems form a quite expensive additional investment to the heating system - normally it is difficult to have a reasonable pay-back-time. Therefor it is a good idea to reduce costs of at least one of the two systems: The ventilation or the heating system. If one reduces costs for the ventilation systems by choosing e.g. just an exhaust fan ventilation, then the ventilation heat losses will be quite high and the building will need a conventional heating system - in this case the result could be a low energy house. Or the heating part is simplified in a way, that it can be integrated into the ventilation system - in that case the building will be a passive house.<br /><br />The extraordinary low consumptions of passive houses are just a direct consequence of the concept given above. To deliver all the space heating just by heating with fresh air can only work, if the overall heat losses are very low. Therefor the insulation of the building envelope has to be very good - at lest in cold climates. But the same holds for hot climates, if the fresh air supply has to be sufficient for airconditioning.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09058843778451883545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481805122799385345.post-80497698872690815812010-06-08T13:50:50.284-07:002010-06-08T13:50:50.284-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09058843778451883545noreply@blogger.com