Energy Saving in Buildings

Opening.- Introductory address.- Opening address.- Keynote Speeches.- Building physics: indispensability or a vogue discipline?.- The problem of the transfer of the results of research and innovations into the sector of energy conservation.- The low energy hospital.- Le diagnostic: un préalable à la réhabilitation thermique des bâtiments existants.- Development of modern heating technology.- Session I — Heat Pump Systems.- A — R & D Projects.- Personal impression of the session chairman.- Influence of lubricating oil on heat pump performance — Data capture, analysis and control aspects.- A single screw high performance heat pump.- Investigation of commercial domestic heat pump performances.- Optimized operation of a frozen air heat exchanger by using a micro-computer.- Optimization of internal combustion engine driven heat pump (20 kW heating power).- Regulation and control of heating system using internal combustion engine heat pump.- Monovalent electric air/water-heat pump plant for room heating in the houses for several families (social house building) to save energy — Heating system for low dwelling by means of heat pump.- Energy roof and seasonal earth storage.- Practical and theoretical investigation of a heating/cooling heat pump with ground storage and solar collector.- Investigation into a complete earth-to-water heat pump system in a single-family dwelling focussing on the application of a vertical subsoil heat exchanger.- Heating of a laboratory hall by means of a soil heat pump combined with unshielded solar absorbers.- A high temperature lift absorption heat pump.- Heat pumps with fluid mixtures applied to space heating.- Practical applications of FRIMIP.- Absorption heat pumps for space heating.- Periodically operating absorption heat pump.- Thermoelectric heat pumps for space heating.- Systematische Konstruktion und Entwicklung einer kosten-günstigen, verlustarmen und regelbaren Lösungspumpe für Absorptionswärmepumpen.- Working fluids for sorption heat pumps.- Untersuchung der Auswirkungen des Betriebes von Wärme-pumpensystemen auf die Umwelt.- Overview of heat pumps R&D for domestic heating carried out by the European Communities from 1979 to 1983 in the framework of the second EC Energy R&D Programme.- B — Demonstration Projects.- Remarks by the session chairman.- Heating pump with gas topping up in individual houses.- Compressor type heat pump, with the ground as heat source, for heating a local authority building.- Heat pump driven by Diesel engine.- The Nuffield College Phoenix.- Use of a mini hydraulic power station to supply heat to a hotel by means of heat pumps.- High temperature heat pump.- Electric heat pump with absorption heat exchangers.- I.C. engine driven heat pumps with a heat power up to 20 kW.- Heat pump installation, the Abbey, Iona.- Report of the session.- Session II — Building Envelope.- A — R & D Projects.- Remarks by the session chairman.- Integration of different energy saving possibilities in dwellings.- Basic characteristics of houses considered with a view to decreasing energy consumption for heating.- Bioclimatic design for building systems and components.- Computer aided design of low-energy subsidized houses: practical experience of designing, building and monitoring 25 houses on site.- Energy conservation on exposed domestic sites.- Extensions to the ESP building energy simulation model.- Reinforced phenolic foams for thermal insulation.- Bituminous heat insulating materials.- Study of heat storing building materials: numerical and experimental results.- Improving of the thermal resistance of polyurethane foams.- Research on buildings general quality of insulation, especially with respect to developing and improving methods of post insulation.- The production of selective optical coatings on plastic sheet.- Pyrosol process use for depositing selective coatings for energy conserving glazings.- Insulated shutters.- Energy saving by using rolling shutters, with reflective layer and edge seals.- Heat reflecting blinds and methods of edge sealing.- The measurement of air infiltration rates in large enclosures and buildings.- Measurements of intercell airflows in large buildings using multiple tracer gases.- Users influence on the air infiltration.- Control of ventilation rate in building using H2O or CO2 content.- Report of the session.- B — Demonstration Projects.- Standard building techniques designed to save energy in Ireland.- Low energy consumption houses meeting the cost criteria of moderate rent housing — SOLPAC project — 12 houses.- Energy ccosumption in 21 low energy houses.- Demonstration of controlled space heating by a solar wall.- Integrated approach to low energy housing.- Comparative experimental study on houses fitted with a solar roof, buried pipes and a heat pump.- The design, construction, monitoring and evaluation of a low cost, low energy dwelling house.- Energy saving lighting systems in existing office buildings.- Heat recovery system and low energy construction for a sports and leisure complex — Darlington Borough Council — Dolphin Centre.- Low energy hospital.- Telephonic control & monitoring of energy consumption in school buildings in Essex.- Telephone monitoring of energy consumption in 20 schools.- Report of the session.- Session III — Improved Conventional Heating Systems.- A — R & D Projects.- Remarks by the session chairman.- Development of a computer program for boiler plant selection.- BRE calibrated house experiments.- Domestic warm air distribution with low-grade heat systems.- Water/air convector made with plastics of improved thermal conductivity.- Research and development concerning a device for measuring the energy consumption of heating installations with fluid heat transfer medium using a new kind of calorimetric system.- Heat meter with microprocessor: final results of the study.- Electronic heating control system.- Microcomputer network for heating system.- An investigation of the performance of various heating systems in a matched pair of houses — Initial results.- Two applications of microprocessors in climate and lighting in office buildings.- Feasibility of underground heat storage in captive aquifers.- Heat storage by paraffin wax fusion for space heating.- Energy saving in the commercial catering market.- Radical reduction in domestic need for electricity, exemplified by the refrigerator.- Report of the session.- B — Demonstration Projects.- Field campaign of a complete series of a Bluflam burner boiler system for domestic heating.- Cogeneration plant with polyassisted heat pump for a commercial building.- Installation and tests on a static emulsifier for liquid fuels burners — Static fuel oil/water emulsifier.- Pompe à chaleur électrique utilisée pour récupérer la chaleur d’un lave-vaisselle.- Report of the session.- Concluding Remarks.- Concluding Remarks.- List of participants.- Index of authors.