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The structure of old monumental churches differs a lot from contemporary buildings. The structural materials were wood, brick and stone. In order to construct high buildings with huge spans, thick massive walls and many massive columns were needed. Originally these buildings had no heating and for centuries the outdoor temperature determined the indoor climate. As churches are considered historical heritage buildings their renovation should be thoroughly studied.               In this thesis the transmission losses of Hamrånge church will be analysed. Hence, the transmission trough walls and windows as well as the heat buffering of materials will be examined. In addition, the effect of possible reformation measurements will be concluded.               Finally, this project belongs to a complete study of the church, were not only transmission losses are considered but also air infiltration losses and solar heat gain. That way, a comparison between them will be carried out in order to contribute to attain the objective of the project: possible restoration for church heating system with respect to preservation, energy requirements, thermal comfort and aesthetics. / Church project

Doctor of Philosophy / Department of Civil Engineering / David Steward / Western Kansas has a semi-arid climate where the demand for water resources is greater than the natural supply. To meet the demand for irrigated agriculture, the groundwater has been extracted at a rate greater than the natural recharge rate, resulting in declining water table in the aquifer and reduced streamflow in the rivers and streams in the region. An assessment of the rivers in western Kansas was conducted to determine the fluxes between the river, groundwater, and the atmosphere. Riverbeds were instrumented to determine the conductivity of the riverbed sediments, the transmission losses of the Arkansas River were modeled to determine the interactions between the surface water and groundwater, and the evapotranspiration of the Arkansas River corridor was estimated using satellite remote sensing to quantify of water lost to the atmosphere. The Arkansas River and Cimarron River are shown to have a high hydraulic conductivity and a large infiltration capacity at the surface of the riverbed. However, the large surface infiltration capacity does not translate into large transmission losses, which are a fraction of the rate of the surface infiltration capacity of the riverbed. Thus, surface infiltration is only one factor of what controls the transmission losses. It is shown that transmission losses for a connected river-aquifer system are driven by induced infiltration by riparian vegetation. The interactions between the surface, groundwater and atmosphere were assessed over time, revealing that the flux to the atmosphere can be decoupled from the Arkansas River discharge and the groundwater recharge. While the declining discharge in the Arkansas River can be attributed to the extraction of groundwater resources and the management of surface water resource, the atmospheric fluxes are independent of the surface water and groundwater at an annual scale. When the river ecosystem is water stressed, the trees continue to draw water. This points to both the reliable store of water from the alluvial aquifer and the ability of the tree community to respond to water stress. While the water in the alluvial deposits are currently being lost from the system through evapotranspiration, this provides a potential store for consideration in future water management decisions.

Tens of millions of dollars have been spent to control Tamarix (saltcedar) trees along waterways in the Southwestern United States for the purpose of increasing streamflow yet no increase in streamflow has been demonstrated. The Pecos River Ecosystem Project (PREP) served as a case study to characterize surface and groundwater interaction along the Pecos River in Texas, assess the influence of saltcedar transpiration on stream stage and water table fluctuations, and evaluate the impacts of large-scale saltcedar control on baseflows. This is the first study that has investigated the influence of saltcedar transpiration on surface and groundwater interaction and the first to provide a mechanistic explanation for the lack of measurable increase in streamflow. Neither saltcedar transpiration nor saltcedar removal influenced hydraulic gradients, streambank seepage, or stream elevations. The results of the plot scale studies indicate saltcedar transpiration along the Pecos River is lower than reported elsewhere and therefore may not yield detectable increases in baseflow. To extend the study to a much larger scale, we analyzed annual baseflows at the downstream end of 340 km river reach from 1999 (pretreatment) through 2009. Surprisingly, baseflows declined for four years after the project began despite additional acreages of saltcedar treatment each year. However, baseflow surged in 2005 and remained higher than the pretreatment year (1999) through 2009. Additional detailed analyses of reservoir release and delivery records and rainfall are needed to better understand contributions of rainfall and flow regulation to this increase. Tracer based studies to determine the relative contributions of releases and groundwater would also enable a better interpretation of the change in baseflows. We did not investigate any other reported benefits, such as restoration of native plant species, or reduced soil salinity, of saltcedar control.

Kyoto University (京都大学) / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(工学) / 甲第15652号 / 工博第3310号 / 新制||工||1500(附属図書館) / 28189 / 京都大学大学院工学研究科都市社会工学専攻 / (主査)教授 小尻 利治, 教授 椎葉 充晴, 教授 角 哲也 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当

Med hjälp av Boverkets byggregler och de ISO-standarder som föreskrivs fastställs värmeeffektbehovet för Kyrkbackskolan, Ljusnarsbergs kommunala skola. Ur effektbehovet har sedan ett teoretiskt värmesystem dimensionerats. Resultaten visar att de olika byggnaderna som skolan består av har olika behov beroende på deras utformning. Över trehundra radiatorer och över trehundrafyrtio kilowatt värmeeffekt behövs för att värma skolan enligt de utförda beräkningarna för transmissionsförluster, ventilationsförluster och köldbryggor. Den största osäkerheten finns i köldbryggorna då dessa är baserade på tabellvärden. En rumslista visar vad varje rum i hela skolan har för effektbehov och kan användas vid både installation och injustering. / Using ”Boverkets byggregler” and the ISO-standards that are stipulated in it are the heating requirements determined for “Kyrkbackskolan”, the only school in the municipality of Ljusnarsberg. A theoretical heating system has been designed based on the calculations. The results show that the three different buildings that make up the school have different requirements depending on their layout. Over three hundred radiators and over three hundred forty kilowatts of heating power are required to heat the school according to the calculations of transmission losses, ventilation losses and thermal bridges. The largest insecurity is in the thermal bridges since they are determined using tables. A list shows all the rooms and their heating requirements which can be used when installing or tuning the heating system.

Microgrid (MG) concept has been emerged to enable integration of renewable energy sources and storage devices using power electronic converters. An MG can be grid connected to exchange power with the main grid, isolated that is completely separated from the grid, or islanded that is temporarily separated from the grid. The P and Q-V drooping approach is commonly used to control and achieve power sharing among the generators.\\ This study presents an approach for systematically modeling a class of microgrid (MG) systems. The derived model 1) accommodates grid-connected and islanded operation of the MG simultaneously, and 2) allows modeling of converter-based as well as directly-interfaced resources. The originally nonlinear model is then converted to a linear model whose eigenvalues determine local stability of the MG. \\The model is used to analyze the impacts of adding cross-coupling droop terms (P-V and Q) on an MG's performance. Various performance aspects such as stability, stability robustness, transmission power loss, voltage profile, and power sharing are considered. The conclusions are as follows. (1) Addition of a small portion of cross-coupling will reduce the losses without compromising other aspects in a grid-connected MG. Larger cross-coupling terms will compromise the system stability. (2) Large cross-coupling terms can be added to reduce the power loss and to improve the system stability in an isolated MG. Simulation and experimental results are presented to verify the derivations.

Denna studie är utförd på uppdrag av DGL AB. Syftet var att utreda varför temperaturen inte sjunker till önskad nivå i två olika kylrum vilka används för nedkylning och förvaring av färdigförpackade livsmedel. Arbetet genomfördes med hjälp av förlustberäkningar samt temperaturmätningar för att kunna identifiera och uppskatta storlek samt procentuella skillnader på olika förlustfaktorer. Praktiska mätningar på plats utgjorde underlag för de resultat som redovisas i arbetet. Kyleffektbehov har beräknats och baserats på företagets maximala produktion av färdig vara per dygn. I resultaten framkom att kylmaskinens effekt var väl dimensionerad men att kylelementens kapacitet i kylrummen var för låg med tanke på mängden förluster. Studien resulterade i förslag på minskning av transmissionsförluster genom isolering av väggar och tak i respektive kylrum samt även isolering av kylvattentanken belägen i kylrum 2. Rengöring av kylelementens flänsar, komplettering eller byte till andra mer effektavgivande kylelement var ytterligare förslag på åtgärder. / This study is conducted on behalf of DGL AB. The purpose was to investigate why the temperature does not drop to the desired level in two different cooling storages whom are used for cooling and storing of prepackaged groceries. The project was carried out with the help of loss calculations and temperature measurements to identify and estimate size as well as percentage differences in different loss factors. The sites measurements outlined the basis for this project. The cooling effect requirement is calculated based on the company's actual maximum production amount per day. The results showed that the effect of the cooling unit is oversized, however the cooling radiators capacity was too low considering the amount of losses. The outcome of the study suggest a decrease in thermal transmission losses through isolation of walls and ceilings in each of the cooling storages as well as isolation of the cooling water tank located in cooling storage 2. Cleaning of the cooling radiators flanges, supplementing or replacing with other cooling radiators that has more power output was additional suggestions to the result.

Inom EU finns mål på att sänka utsläppen med 40% till år 2030. I Sverige står bygg och fastighetssektorn för cirka 21% av Sveriges totala utsläpp. För att lyckas nå EU:s klimatmål måste en konvertering till förnybara uppvärmningskällor ske. Region Gotland ansvarar idag för över 500 000m2 fastigheter. Många använder idag pellets till uppvärmning. Pellets ses som klimatneutralt och släpper därför inte ut mer koldioxid än vad trädet plockat upp. Ett problem som uppstår då pelletspannorna kräver underhåll och leveranser. Flera av Region Gotlands fastigheter ligger flera mil iväg från både leverantör och underhållspersonal vilket ökar kostnader och miljöpåverkan än mer. En av dessa fastigheter, brandstationen i Öja, ligger till grund för denna studie. Då det finns flera fastigheter med liknande förutsättningar kan rapporten användas som underlag för dessa. Studien undersöker ifall en konvertering från pelletspannan till en värmepump kan sänka kostnaderna och bidra till lägre utsläpp. Vid en konvertering till värmepump sänks systemtemperaturerna från 80/60 till 55/45 vilket kan skapa problem för befintliga radiatorer, rör och pumpar. Radiatorernas och rörens kompatibilitet med nya temperaturerna under söks därför i studien men pumpar utelämnas för en framtida studie. Med hjälp av transmissionsberäkningar och en formel baserad på grad dagar och tidigare energiförbrukning beräknades ett värmebehov för fastigheten på 23,8 kW den kallaste dagen på året. Med detta kunde tre värmepumplösningar tas fram. Samtliga lösningar innefattar även en ny ackumulatortank då den nuvarande är över 40 år gammal och har ett flertal brister. Med optimering av uppvärmningssystemet genom att sänka temperaturen i de fläktvärmda rummen till 15 grader kan värmebehovet sänkas med 4kW. En undersökning gällande installation av solfångare har även gjorts, där det inte visade sig lönsamt med dagens tappvarmvattenbehov.  Efter de dimensioneringar som gjorts framkommer även att två rörslingor behöver bytas, men att ett eventuellt radiatorbyte lämnas till efter en konvertering för att se om dessa behöver bytas. Undersökningarna visar även att de befintliga fläktvärmarna är överdimensionerade och inte behöver bytas. Utsläppsberäkningar visar att utsläppen kan minskas med 2565 kg CO2 eq per år vid en eventuell konvertering. Payoffmetoden har använts för att visa att de tre lösningarna har en mycket kort återbetalningstid mellan 3,9 år för luft/vattenvärmepumpar från CTC till 4,7 år för Thermias bergvärmelösning. Med hjälp av LCC kalkyler har lösningarna livstidskostnad tagits fram. Ställt mot den be fintliga pelletspannan uppgår besparingen till 879 000kr för Thermias lösning – 966 000kr för CTC:s lösning med en kalkylränta på 1,5%. Slutsatsen är därför att en konvertering till värmepump bör ske för att spara både ekonomiskt men även för att minska utsläppen. / One of EU’s climate goals is to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by the year of 2030. In Sweden the “building and real estate sector” stands for 21% of Sweden’s total pollution of greenhouse gas emissions. To reach EU’s goals by 2030 there must be a transformation to renewable sources for use in the heating of real estates. Region Gotland manages over 500 000 m2 of estates. Many of which uses pellet as the source of heating. This heating alternative requires regular deliveries of material and maintenance. Many of the estates in the care of Region Gotland are far away from both the supplier and maintenance team which creates great transport costs and gas emissions. The fire sta- tion in “Öja” is one of them and is the one used in this study. As there are many similar buildings the results here can be used as a foundation for those estates. This study is exploring if a conversion from pellet to a heating pump can lower the expenses and greenhouse gas emissions. By changing to a heat- ing pump from a pellet boiler the temperatures are reduced from 80/60°C to 55/45 °C in the system. This may cause problem with radiators, pumps and pipes. Because of this, radiators and pipes will also be inves- tigated, but pumps will be left out for another study. The heat needed to increase the temperature in the building to 21 °C at a DVUT of -8,7 °C was calculated using transmission losses calculations and a formula based on “graddagar” and earlier energy uses by the estate, to 23,8 kW. Based on the calculated heat, three heating pump solutions were created, all of whom included a new water heater with storage tank. The old storage tank is over 40 years by age and therefore has many short- comings. Using calculations to optimize the heat usage, the heat needed can be re- duced by 4kW at DVUT by lowering the temperature to 15 °C in the fan heated area of the building while still being within the laws of the Swe- dish work environment authority. An investigation was made to see if solar collectors could be used to heat the domestic hot water in the estate. The results showed that in this case it wouldn’t be economically justifiable due to low energy cost with a new heating pump. The calculations done for pipes and radiators showed that two pipes must be replaced but that the radiators are mostly fine with the new tempera- tures. A replacement of the radiators should be left till after the conver- sion. Calculations on the fan heaters showed that there is no need to re- place these. Calculations on greenhouse gas emissions showed that the emissions can be reduce by 2565 kg CO CO2-eq each year if the pellet boiler is replaced by a heating pump. The Pay-off method and LCC calculations was used to show the profita- bility in the three heating pump solutions. The Pay-off time for the solu- tions ranged from CTC’s air to water heating pumps at 3,9 years to 4,7 years for Thermia’s geothermal heating pump. The LCC calculations showed that changing to a heat pump could generate a saving of 879 000 SEK for Thermia’s solution to 966 000 SEK for CTC’s solution. The conclusion is therefore that the pellet boiler should be changed to a heating pump to save money and reduce the greenhouse gas emissions.

One of the major problems for the implementation of water resources planning and management in arid and semi-arid environments is the scarcity of hydrological data and, consequently, research studies. In this thesis, the hydrology of dryland river systems was analyzed and a semi-distributed hydrological model and a forecasting approach were developed for flow transmission processes in river-systems with a focus on semi-arid conditions. Three different sources of hydrological data (streamflow series, groundwater level series and multi-temporal satellite data) were combined in order to analyze the channel transmission losses of a large reach of the Jaguaribe River in NE Brazil. A perceptual model of this reach was derived suggesting that the application of models, which were developed for sub-humid and temperate regions, may be more suitable for this reach than classical models, which were developed for arid and semi-arid regions. Summarily, it was shown that this river reach is hydraulically connected with groundwater and shifts from being a losing river at the dry and beginning of rainy seasons to become a losing/gaining (mostly losing) river at the middle and end of rainy seasons. A new semi-distributed channel transmission losses model was developed, which was based primarily on the capability of simulation in very different dryland environments and flexible model structures for testing hypotheses on the dominant hydrological processes of rivers. This model was successfully tested in a large reach of the Jaguaribe River in NE Brazil and a small stream in the Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed in the SW USA. Hypotheses on the dominant processes of the channel transmission losses (different model structures) in the Jaguaribe river were evaluated, showing that both lateral (stream-)aquifer water fluxes and ground-water flow in the underlying alluvium parallel to the river course are necessary to predict streamflow and channel transmission losses, the former process being more relevant than the latter. This procedure not only reduced model structure uncertainties, but also reported modelling failures rejecting model structure hypotheses, namely streamflow without river-aquifer interaction and stream-aquifer flow without groundwater flow parallel to the river course. The application of the model to different dryland environments enabled learning about the model itself from differences in channel reach responses. For example, the parameters related to the unsaturated part of the model, which were active for the small reach in the USA, presented a much greater variation in the sensitivity coefficients than those which drove the saturated part of the model, which were active for the large reach in Brazil. Moreover, a nonparametric approach, which dealt with both deterministic evolution and inherent fluctuations in river discharge data, was developed based on a qualitative dynamical system-based criterion, which involved a learning process about the structure of the time series, instead of a fitting procedure only. This approach, which was based only on the discharge time series itself, was applied to a headwater catchment in Germany, in which runoff are induced by either convective rainfall during the summer or snow melt in the spring. The application showed the following important features: • the differences between runoff measurements were more suitable than the actual runoff measurements when using regression models; • the catchment runoff system shifted from being a possible dynamical system contaminated with noise to a linear random process when the interval time of the discharge time series increased; • and runoff underestimation can be expected for rising limbs and overestimation for falling limbs. This nonparametric approach was compared with a distributed hydrological model designed for real-time flood forecasting, with both presenting similar results on average. Finally, a benchmark for hydrological research using semi-distributed modelling was proposed, based on the aforementioned analysis, modelling and forecasting of flow transmission processes. The aim of this benchmark was not to describe a blue-print for hydrological modelling design, but rather to propose a scientific method to improve hydrological knowledge using semi-distributed hydrological modelling. Following the application of the proposed benchmark to a case study, the actual state of its hydrological knowledge and its predictive uncertainty can be determined, primarily through rejected hypotheses on the dominant hydrological processes and differences in catchment/variables responses. / Die Bewirtschaftung von Wasserressourcen in ariden und semiariden Landschaften ist mit einer Reihe besonderer Probleme konfrontiert. Eines der größten Probleme für die Maßnahmenplanung und für das operationelle Management ist der Mangel an hydrologischen Daten und damit zusammenhängend auch die relativ kleine Zahl wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten zu dieser Thematik. In dieser Arbeit wurden 1) die grundlegenden hydrologischen Bedingungen von Trockenflusssystemen analysiert, 2) ein Modellsystem für Flüsse unter semiariden Bedingungen, und 3) ein nichtparametrisches Vorhersage-verfahren für Abflussvorgänge in Flüssen entwickelt. Der Wasserverlust in einem großen Abschnitt des Jaguaribe Flusses im nordöstlichen Brasilien wurde auf Basis von Daten zu Abflussraten, Grundwasserflurabstände und mit Hilfe multitemporaler Satellitendaten analysiert. Dafür wurde zuerst ein konzeptionelles hydrologisches Modell über die Mechanismen der Transferverluste in diesem Abschnitt des Trockenflusses erstellt. Dabei ergab sich, dass der Flussabschnitt mit dem Grundwasser hydraulisch verbunden ist. Der Flussabschnitt weist in der Trockenenzeit und am Anfang der Regenzeit nur Wasserverlust (Sickerung) zum Grundwasser auf. Im Laufe der Regenzeit findet auch ein gegenseitiger Austausch vom Grundwasser mit dem Flusswasser statt. Aufgrund dieser hydraulischen Kopplung zwischen Flusswasser und Grundwasser sind für diesen Flussabschnitt hydrologische Modellansätze anzuwenden, die generell für gekoppelte Fluss-Grundwassersysteme, v.a. in feuchtgemäßigten Klimaten, entwickelt wurden. Es wurde ein neuartiges hydrologisches Simulationsmodell für Transferverluste in Trockenflüssen entwickelt. Dieses Modell ist für unterschiedliche aride und semiaride Landschaften anwendbar und hat eine flexible Modellstruktur, wodurch unterschiedliche Hypothesen zur Relevanz einzelner hydrologische Prozesse getestet werden können. Es wurde für den zuvor genannten großen Abschnitt des Jaguaribe Flusses im nordöstlichen Brasilien und für einen kleinen Flussabschnitt im „Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed“ (WGEW) in Arizona, Südwest-USA, angewendet. Für die eine prozess-orientierte Simulation von Abflussbedingungen und Transferverlusten im Einzugsgebiet des Jaguaribe hat sich gezeigt, dass die am besten geeignete Modellstruktur sowohl den Austausch zwischen Flusswasser und Grundwasser (senkrecht zur Fließrichtung des Flusses) als auch die parallel zum Fluss verlaufende Grundwasserströmung enthält. Die Simulationsexperimente mit unterschiedlichen Modellstrukturen („Hypothesentest“) reduzierte nicht nur die Modellstrukturunsicherheit, sondern quantifizierte auch die Qualität der Modellergebnisse bei folgenden Varianten der Modellstruktur: a) Abflluss im Fluss ohne Interaktion mit dem Grundwasser (keine Transferverluste) und b) Interaktion zwischen Fluss und Grundwasser ohne parallelen Grundwasserstrom zum Flussstrom. Durch die Anwendung auf die beiden unterschiedlichen Trockenflusssysteme wurden neue Erkenntnisse über die Sensitivität des Modells unter verschiedenen Bedingungen erworben. Beispielsweise waren die Parameter der ungesättigten Zone, die von hoher Relevanz für den kleinen Flussabschnitt im WGEW waren, viel sensitiver als die Parameter der gesättigten Zone, die besonders relevant für den Jaguaribe Flussabschnitt in Brasilien waren. Die Ursache für diese sehr unterschiedliche Sensitivität liegt darin, dass beim WGEW das Flusswasser nur mit der ungesättigten Zone in Kontakt steht, da sich in diesem Gebiet, welche im Vergleich zur Jaguaribe-Region noch deutlich trockener ist, kein Grund-wasserleiter bildet. Letztlich wurde ein nicht-parametrisches Verfahren, zur Simulation der deterministischen Evolution und stochastischen Fluktuation der Abflussdynamik entwickelt. Im Unterschied zu prozessbasiertem Modellsystemen basiert dieses Verfahren nicht auf Modellkalibrierung sondern auf einem Lernprozess, basierend auf Zeitreihendaten. Als Anwendungsbeispiel wurde ein mesoskaliges Einzugsgebiet im Erzgebirge, NO-Deutschland gewählt, in dem starke Abflussereignisse entweder durch konvektive Niederschlagsereignisse oder durch Schneeschmelze generiert werden. Die folgenden wichtigsten Ergebnisse wurden erzielt: • Regressionsmodellansätze basierend auf den zeitlichen Änderungen der Abflüsse liefern bessere Ergebnisse gegenüber Ansätzen basierend auf direkten Abflussdaten; • mit zunehmendem Vorhersagehorizont wandelt sich das hydrologische System von einem mit Zufallsanteilen verrauschten dynamischen System zu einem linearen probabilistischen Zufallsprozess; • Bei zunehmendem Abfluss (ansteigenden Ganglinie) erfolgt meist eine Abflussunterschätzung, bei abnehmendem Abfluss (fallende Ganglinie) erfolgt meist eine Abflussüberschätzung. Dieses nichtparametrische Verfahren ergibt im Vergleich mit einem prozess-orientierten und flächenverteilten hydrologischen Hochwasservorhersagemodell bis zu einem Vorhersagezeitraum von 3 Stunden Ergebnisse von vergleichbar guter Qualität. Letztendlich wurde ein Vorgehen bzgl. künftiger Forschungen zu hydrologischer Modellierung vorgeschlagen. Das Ziel dabei war ein wissenschaftliches Verfahren zur Verbesserung des hydrologischen Wissens über ein Einzugsgebiet. Diese Verfahren basiert auf einem Hypothesentest zu den relevanten hydrologischen Prozessen und der Untersuchung der Sensitivitäten der hydrologischen Variablen bei unterschiedlichen Einzugsgebieten.