Low Exergy Renovation: Optimizing retrofitting of buildings through exergy analysis on single houses and up-scaled design solutions

Improvement on effectiveness provided by an exergy analysis used in a renovation design. An exergy analysis of the Prêt-à-Loger house (TU Delft, Green Village) is done with dynamic calculations using TRNSYS software. From this analysis an exergy optimized version of the renovation concept is provided, with insight on the potential effectiveness...