Uma P

BE4002

PASSIVE COMFORT LAB

Passive Comfort Lab is the first step in understanding the energy consumption of a building. The course encompasses the study of modes of heat transfer through the envelope, measurement and visualization of climate data, thermal comfort and building simulation. The study of all these concepts is applied in designing, building and assessing a solar cooker which is taken as an analogy for a built structure. Finally, the study is applied to a built structure and its energy consumption is assessed through simulations to find the most energy-efficient envelope strategy for a particular climate.


Report Content

Understanding of climate consultant and D-view

Solar cooker 1

Solar cooker 2

Solar cooker 3

Shading mask

Thermal comfort 1

Thermal comfort 2

Influence of parameters on Heating and cooling design

Life cost cycle analysis

Thermal load reduction with Energy Conservation Measures