Developing Exhaust Air Energy Recovery Credits for the Florida Energy Code

Primary Author(s)

Florida Solar Energy Center
Bereket Nigusse, Florida Solar Energy CenterFollow

Report Number

FSEC-CR-2003-15

URL

http://publications.energyresearch.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/FSEC-CR-2003-15.pdf

Keywords

Ventilation; Buildings; Energy recovery ventilator; Heat recovery ventilator; HVAC energy savings; Building energy simulation; Florida Energy Code

Abstract

Energy Recovery Ventilator (ERV) or Heat Recovery Ventilator (HRV) devices recover energy from building's exhaust air to precondition outdoor air. Energy savings of ERV/HRV devices were determined for various commercial buildings in Florida climate using whole building energy simulation tool. The annual HVAC energy percent savings due to ERV/HRV device were calculated from HVAC energy use of a standard reference building without and with ERV/HRV device using EnergyPlus. The annual HVAC energy savings potential (ERV Credits) will be used for code compliance calculation when a compliance software does not have ERV modeling capability. The ERV/HRV credits were reported by building type and climate zone.

Date Published

5-26-2015

Identifiers

148

Subjects

Energy conservation; Buildings--Energy conservation; Heating; Ventilation; Air conditioning

Local Subjects

Buildings - Ventilation

Type

Text; Document

Collection

FSEC Energy Research Center® Collection

STARS Citation

Florida Solar Energy Center and Nigusse, Bereket, "Developing Exhaust Air Energy Recovery Credits for the Florida Energy Code" (2015). FSEC Energy Research Center®. 148.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fsec/148