GLAZING SYSTEMS WITH SILICA AEROGEL FOR OPTIMIZING ENERGY CONSUMPTION IN HOTEL BUILDING
Abstract
Due to their high energy consumption hotel buildings have a significant impact on the environment. Such constructions are particularly energy-intensive demanding environments so as to meet the various needs of occupants and ensure their comfort. Guests tend to consume more energy during their stays than they do in their own homes (water, electricity, light, temperature...). In recent years, Algeria has seen a significant increase in the construction of hotels, many of which are concentrated in the Mediterranean region, which experiences particularly high humidity levels in the summer and winter. The new generation of building materials used to enhance comfort and reduce building energy consumption, are progressively sought after all over the world. This work, which studied the performance of silica aerogels for the glazing system of hotel rooms in a Mediterranean climate, can provide a database for hotel designers, an investigation combining experimental work (air and surface temperature measurements and thermography) and numerical simulation (using TRNsys V17) was conducted on an existing hotel building located in Béjaia. The results revealed the insertion of silica aerogel within a 6 mm thick glazing sheet decreases significantly the heating and cooling requirements of the study indoor environment.
References
Alsaffawi, A.M., Ali, F.A., Soheel, A.H. (2023), “Experimental Comparison of Thermal Performance Between V-corrugated and Flat Plate Solar Collectors”, International Journal on Technical and Physical Problems of Engineering (IJTPE), Issue 54, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 357-364.
World Tourism Organization info@unwto.org.
Nocera, F., Giuffrida, S. M., Trovato, A. G. (2019), “Energy and New Economic Approach for Nearly Zero Energy Hotels”. Entropy (Basel), Issue 7, Vol 21, pp 639.
Bodach, S. (2019), “Design Guidelines for Energy-Efficient Hotels in Nepal”. International Journal of Sustainable Built Environment, Issue 2, Vol 5, pp 411-434.
Rehab, I.A., Philippe, A.S., Cleide, M., Gabrielle, H., (2015), Jules, Jean LEBRUN. “Verification of the Energy Balance of a Passive House by Combining Measurements and Dynamic Simulation”, Energy Procedia 78 pp 2310 – 2315.
APRUE. (2017), “Final Energy Consumption of Algeria, Key Figures Year 2017”, Retrieved from http://www.aprue.org. / Accessed: 02 December 2023.
Arriola, D., Carrillo-González, S., Quijas, R. U. (2021), “Energy Efficiency Indicators for Hotel Buildings”, Sustainability, Vol 13, No.4 pp 1754. https://doi.org/10.3390/ su13041754.
Orynycz, O., and Tucki, K. (2021), “Total Productive Maintenance Approach to an Increase of the Energy Efficiency of a Hotel Facility and Mitigation of Water Consumption”, Energies, vol 14, No.6,1706. https://doi.org/10.3390/ en14061706.
Boudjadja, R., Benhalilou.K, (2022), “Conceptual Modeling of Environmental Devices of a Vernacular House with a Patio”, International Journal on Technical and Physical Problems of Engineering (IJTPE), Issue 51, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 267-274.
Wernery, J. A., Ben-Ishai, B., Binder, S. B., (2017), “Aerobrick - an Aerogel-filled Insulating Brick”, In J. Littlewood & R. J. Howlett (Eds.), Energy procedia: Vol. 134. Sustainability in energy and buildings proceedings of the ninth KES international conference pp. 490-498. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.09.607.
Ganobjak, M., and V. Josephine. (2019), “Topology-Optimized Insulating Facebrick with Aerogel Filling” Carstensen Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Vol. 1343, CISBAT, Climate Resilient Cities – Energy Efficiency & Renewables in the Digital Era, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland, 4-6. doi:10.1088/1742-6596/1343/1/012195.
Gao, T., Ihara, T., Grynning, S. B., Jelle, A.L. (2015), “Perspective of Aerogel Glazings in Energy Efficient Buildings”. Building and Environment, 95, pp. 405-413. DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2015.10.001.
Du, A., Zhou, B., Zhang, Z., Shen, J. (2013), “A Special Material or a New State of Matter: A Review and Reconsideration of the Aerogel”. PubMed Central, Vol.6 No.3, pp 941-968. DOI: 10.3390/ma6030941.
Elgohary, A.S., M. Haytham, E.S. (2022), “Optimizing Energy Performance Using Silica Aerogel Material in Building Envelope”, international journal of sustainable Building Technology and Urban Development. Vol. 13, No. 1, pp 69-83.
Schneider, OKAGEL.F. (2011), “High Insulating Day Lighting Systems”, in: M.A. Aegerter, N. Leventis, M.M. Koebel (Eds.), Aerogels Handbook, Springer, pp. 879-888, New York.
Jelle, B.P., Baetens, R., Gustavsen, A. (2015), The Sol–Gel Handbook: Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications pp. 1385–1412.
https://dysleksivennlig.no/dvs-nettverk/levanger-ungdomsskole-levanger-nord-trondelag.
Views:
133
Downloads:
114
Copyright (c) 2024 Ghania Kihal, Djamila Rouag saffidine
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
All articles are published in open-access and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). Hence, authors retain copyright to the content of the articles.
CC BY 4.0 License allows content to be copied, adapted, displayed, distributed, re-published or otherwise re-used for any purpose including for adaptation and commercial use provided the content is attributed.
