Heat Gain and Loss Carried Out in Auxiliary Heating
The instantaneous thermal balance for a heated space can be given as follows: (1)qaux=qL+qACC?qG If the right hand side of Eq. (1) is negative, there is no demand for heating; if this tendency continues, the indoor temperature will rise, leading to overheating. The increased indoor temperature will result in increased heat loss and accumulation, until equilibrium is reached. Ideally, the capacity of the building to accumulate the extra energy will be large enough to avoid overheating due to increased heat gains. Heat accumulated in the building is given to the space during the thermostat set-back period. This ‘loss’ of accumulated heat will ...
