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Energy Usage While Maintaining Thermal Comfort : A Case Study of a UNT Dormitory

Campus dormitories for the University of North Texas house over 5500 students per year; each one of them requires certain comfortable living conditions while they live there. There is an inherit amount of money required in order to achieve minimal comfort levels; the cost is mostly natural gas for water and room heating and electricity for cooling, lighting and peripherals. The US Department of Energy has developed several programs to aid in performing energy simulations to help those interested design more cost effective building designs. Energy-10 is such a program that allows users to conduct whole house evaluations by reviewing and altering a few parameters such as building materials, solar heating, energy efficient windows etc. The idea of this project was to recreate a campus dormitory and try to emulate existent energy consumption then try to find ways of lowering that usage while maintaining a high level of personal comfort.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc103319
Date12 1900
CreatorsGambrell, Dusten
ContributorsTao, Yong, Mun, Junghyon, Boetcher, Sandra
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
FormatText
RightsPublic, Gambrell, Dusten, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights Reserved.

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