CFD study of the thermal environment in an air-conditioned train station building

Qiong Li, Hiroshi Yoshino, Akashi Mochida, Qinglin Meng, Bo Lei, Lihua Zhao, Yufat Lun

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Abstract

This study evaluated and optimized the thermal environment inside an air-conditioned train station building using the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method. The impacts of some air-conditioning design parameters such as supply air temperature, velocity, altitude and incidence angle on indoor thermal environment were discussed. The primary air-conditioning design scheme was optimized. The numerical results showed that when cooling loads in the waiting hall and entrance hall of the train station building kept unchanged, alternations made to the cooling air supply scheme in waiting hall would have little effect on the air distribution in entrance hall. The uniformities of velocity and temperature distributions in waiting hall showed well when side supply scheme was applied. Changing supply air temperature, velocity, altitude and incidence angle had great effects on thermal environment in the train station building. For stratified air-conditioning, in order to obtain satisfactory indoor thermal environment the supply air altitude should be at mid-height of the building with zero angle of incidence from horizontal. The results also indicated that analyzing the effect of design parameters on indoor thermal environment by CFD method provided an effective way for the optimization of design scheme.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIAQVEC 2007 Proceedings - 6th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation and Energy Conservation in Buildings
Subtitle of host publicationSustainable Built Environment
Pages351-358
Number of pages8
Publication statusPublished - 2007
Externally publishedYes
Event6th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation and Energy Conservation in Buildings: Sustainable Built Environment, IAQVEC 2007 - Sendai, Japan
Duration: 28 Oct 200731 Oct 2007

Publication series

NameIAQVEC 2007 Proceedings - 6th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation and Energy Conservation in Buildings: Sustainable Built Environment
Volume2

Conference

Conference6th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation and Energy Conservation in Buildings: Sustainable Built Environment, IAQVEC 2007
Country/TerritoryJapan
CitySendai
Period28/10/0731/10/07

Keywords

  • Air distribution
  • Air-conditioning
  • CFD
  • Train station building

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Energy Engineering and Power Technology
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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