Quantification of Heat Flows Through Building Entrance Doors on a Winter Day

Authors

Daeho Kang, CUNY New York City College of TechnologyFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-4-2019

Abstract

The current methods for the prediction of the heat flow through building entrance doors have been used for years while involved with a certain degree of uncertainty. This paper describes an experimental method that accurately quantified such heat flow. The experiment monitored local environmental parameters in a college building on a cold winter day. The results of the experiment demonstrated that the experimental method is viable to accurately estimate the heat flow throughout the entrance doors and the presence of a vestibule moderated heat losses from the conditioned area. The results will be used for validating the existing methods.

Comments

This work was originally published in Proceedings of Building Simulation 2019: 16th Conference of IBPSA. Rome, Italy.