A property with several apartments located in the small village of Otterbäcken in Gullspång municipality has burned down. The property will be rebuilt in accordance with Boverket buildings rules BBR and the requirements that are relevant for 2021.The diploma project has been a collaboration between the University of Borås and the consulting company Energi Triangeln AB located in the city of Gothenburg. As part of the project a re-design of the heating and ventilation system of the property will be carried out using two different simulation programs used when designing buildings. The first program is MagiCad from the company Autodesk. In this program drawings are made of the building including the drawings of the heating and ventilation systems. The second program is more focused at energy balances and energy efficiency calculation of the property. You get the energy performance of the property. The translated name is “Heat balances in a duration diagram”. The program is developed by a consulting company connected to Chalmers University of Technology named “Chalmers Industrial Technology”, CIT.
The original technical solution for the ventilation in the building before it burned down was a system not using any fans. When rebuilding the house, the design of the ventilation system includes the comparison of two modern system both using extraction fans for forcing spent air to leave the building. The first alternative uses both a supply fan and exhaust fan with a heat exchanger for heat recovery of the heat in the exhaust ventilation duct. This system is used together with a heat pump taking heat from the ground. The second technical solution of ventilation system uses an exhaust fan in connection to a heat pump. That is a system where the heat recovery of the heat in the exhaust duct is recovered in the heat pump instead of extracting heat from the ground as in alternative one. Alternative two has no centralized intake of ventilation air, instead fresh air is coming into the apartments below windows in the sleeping rooms and living room of the apartments through individual ducts.
By using the program energy performance program “BV2”, two different cases were calculated and expressed in specific energy consumption of both electricity and heat using the unit kWh/m2, per year. This means that the property which was designed with both an exhaust and a supply fan (and heat exchanger) for ventilation of the building and for the design with an exhaust air fan only but using a heat pump for heat recovery from the exhaust air, these two cases can be compared. To be able to carry out this project, it was necessary, among other things there was a need to access proper building drawings of the property that is being built and projected.
The purpose and main objectives of the project are fulfilled.
Furthermore, as a continuation of the course called “Computed Aided Design, (CAD), for buildings, the design of secondary heating, domestic hot and cold water and sewage water was carried out using MagiCad. The method used to carry out this project was to use the drawings of the building, measure the area of the shell, windows, doors, roofs and floor of the building and by using the second simulation program BV2 to be able to calculate the energy required of the building.
The result of the degree project states that the choice of a geothermal heat pump with a heat exchanger for heat recovery between the exhaust duct and the duct with incoming fresh air provides the best alternative from an energy performance perspective. You consume fewer kilowatt hours to be able to cover the heating demand in the building. If you choose a geothermal heat pump with a heat recovery using only a heat exchanger the saving in purchased electricity to be able to satisfy the property´s energy demand is approximately 12 527 kWh/ electricity annually. which with a common electricity price in Sweden, (of 1.19 crowns/kWh) provides approximately 14 900 Swedish crowns per year in savings of purchased electricity for heat production.