Building energy audits are both expensive, on the order of $0.50(US)/sf [1], and there aren’t enough auditors to survey the entire building stock in the U.S. Needed are lower cost automated approaches for rapidly evaluating the energy effectiveness of buildings. A key element of such an approach would be automated measurements of envelope R-values. Proposed is the use of single point-in-time thermal images potentially obtainable from drive-by thermal imaging to infer wall and window R-values. A data mining based approach is proposed, which seeks to calibrate the measured exterior wall temperatures to known and measured R-values for a small subset of residences. In this approach, visual imagery is first used to determine the wall emissivity based on the color of the wall siding in order to yield an estimate of the wall temperature. A Random Forest model is developed using the training set comprised of the residences with known R-value. This model can then be used to estimate R- and C-values of other houses based upon their measured exterior temperatures. The results show that the proposed approach is capable of accurately estimating envelope thermal characteristics over a spectrum of envelope R-values and thermal capacitances present in residences nationally. The resulting error for the houses considered is maximally 12% using as few as nine training houses. The data mining approach has significantly greater accuracy than modeling-based approaches in the literature.
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ASME 2017 11th International Conference on Energy Sustainability collocated with the ASME 2017 Power Conference Joint With ICOPE-17, the ASME 2017 15th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology, and the ASME 2017 Nuclear Forum
June 26–30, 2017
Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
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- Advanced Energy Systems Division
- Solar Energy Division
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978-0-7918-5759-5
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Estimating Residential Wall Thermal Resistance From Exterior Thermal Imaging Available to Purchase
Salahaldin Alshatshati,
Salahaldin Alshatshati
University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
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Kevin P. Hallinan,
Kevin P. Hallinan
University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
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Abdulrahman Alrobaian,
Abdulrahman Alrobaian
University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
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Badr Altarhuni
Badr Altarhuni
University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
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Salahaldin Alshatshati
University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
Kevin P. Hallinan
University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
Abdulrahman Alrobaian
University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
Adel Naji
University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
Badr Altarhuni
University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
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ES2017-3666, V001T09A007; 7 pages
Published Online:
August 25, 2017
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Alshatshati, S, Hallinan, KP, Alrobaian, A, Naji, A, & Altarhuni, B. "Estimating Residential Wall Thermal Resistance From Exterior Thermal Imaging." Proceedings of the ASME 2017 11th International Conference on Energy Sustainability collocated with the ASME 2017 Power Conference Joint With ICOPE-17, the ASME 2017 15th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology, and the ASME 2017 Nuclear Forum. ASME 2017 11th International Conference on Energy Sustainability. Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. June 26–30, 2017. V001T09A007. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/ES2017-3666
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