Ecology, Environment and Conservation Paper

SIMULATION AND ANALYSIS ON ENERGY CONSERVATION IN PASSIVE MATERIALS FEATURES FOR APARTMENTS IN CHENNAI, INDIA

Binil Sundar and S. Prince Arockia Doss

Abstract

This paper discusses the importance and approaches of thermal control, carbon emission and carbon reduction in Chennai city at various positions with regard to orientation of high rise structure.This case study tries to distinguish the relationship between real energy use information and housing design data by changing the passive materials. A number of apartments were randomly chosen as a sample building for the study, which introduces a method to use substantial energy consumption information to estimate the additional energy use related to climatic factors. The factors governing the building temperature and discuss about the Power usage, Carbon emission factor, Carbon footprints, Carbon reduction from the old and new residential houses. This report is almost a case study of Chennai where current construction practices as a normal bricks concrete way of building. In this research suggesting that with certain changes of using passive materials like prefabricated concrete wall, e glass and insular tiles, etc., that owner will be capable to recoup the increased investment within a decade via reduced energy bills with the added benefit of improved comfort. To study heat transfer and the temperature distribution through passive materials can be done by analyzing and stimulating possible economical designs. This work presents and identifies relationships between the increase in mean daily energy consumption information and a trend of building design data of the sample houses and establishes the starting point feasibility for further work for developing passive energy design guides for establishing energy efficiency.