Dimensionamento e seleção dos condicionadores de ar através da simulação com o software “Energy Plus”

Abstract

Relevance element to meet the demand for thermal comfort, air conditioners are necessary items for the everyday of people. The participation of these devices in the calculation of the electric energy consumption of a building is quite significant. Choosing an ideal air conditioner for a particular location needs to take into account several factors, such as utilization profile, thermal load, geographic location, among other variables. One tool of engineers in analysis is simulation software. Energy Plus is an effective program to achieve the goal of a precise study in the environment. After selecting an air conditioner for a given zone (s) that would meet the required requirements, the behavior of the energy consumption of the environment was analyzed and, in this study, revealed that the air conditioners of the areas studied were 64% of the consumption of the whole building. This number indicates what should be the most important and detailed object of study, because the influence of this is the majority in relation to the sum of the other elements that consume energy in the building.