Appraising the Effect of the Primary Systems on the Cost Optimal Design of nZEB: A Case Study in Two Different Climates

Maria Ferrara, Enrico Fabrizio, Joseph Virgone, Marco Filippi
2015 Energy Procedia  
The work concerns the application of the cost-optimal methodology to a low-consumption French single-family house in order to study how the primary energy system influences the envelope design of a cost optimal nZEB. This is done applying a simulation based optimization method that combines TRNSYS with GenOpt in an iterative process. Four primary energy systems were considered (a gas condensing boiler, a wood boiler, an all-electrical radiator system and a combined reversible air to air heat
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doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2015.11.200 fatcat:3guku2jigfdyjhmjyx64sf5r6y