TY - JOUR A1 - Alsaad, Hayder A1 - Hartmann, Maria A1 - Voelker, Conrad T1 - The effect of a living wall system designated for greywater treatment on the hygrothermal performance of the facade JF - Energy and Buildings N2 - Besides their multiple known benefits regarding urban microclimate, living walls can be used as decentralized stand-alone systems to treat greywater locally at the buildings. While this offers numerous environmental advantages, it can have a considerable impact on the hygrothermal performance of the facade as such systems involve bringing large quantities of water onto the facade. As it is difficult to represent complex entities such as plants in the typical simulation tools used for heat and moisture transport, this study suggests a new approach to tackle this challenge by coupling two tools: ENVI-Met and Delphin. ENVI-Met was used to simulate the impact of the plants to determine the local environmental parameters at the living wall. Delphin, on the other hand, was used to conduct the hygrothermal simulations using the local parameters calculated by ENVI-Met. Four wall constructions were investigated in this study: an uninsulated brick wall, a precast concrete plate, a sandy limestone wall, and a double-shell wall. The results showed that the living wall improved the U-value, the exterior surface temperature, and the heat flux through the wall. Moreover, the living wall did not increase the risk of moisture in the wall during winter and eliminated the risk of condensation. KW - Feuchteleitung KW - Diffusionswärme KW - Heat transport KW - Moisture transport KW - Living wall KW - Delphin KW - ENVI-Met Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20240116-65299 UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378778821009956 VL - 2022 IS - volume 255, article 111711 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pollack, Moritz A1 - Lück, Andrea A1 - Wolf, Mario A1 - Kraft, Eckhard A1 - Völker, Conrad T1 - Energy and Business Synergy: Leveraging Biogenic Resources from Agriculture, Waste, and Wastewater in German Rural Areas JF - Sustainability N2 - The imperative to transform current energy provisions is widely acknowledged. However, scant attention has hitherto been directed toward rural municipalities and their innate resources, notably biogenic resources. In this paper, a methodological framework is developed to interconnect resources from waste, wastewater, and agricultural domains for energy utilization. This entails cataloging existing resources, delineating their potential via quantitative assessments utilizing diverse technologies, and encapsulating them in a conceptual model. The formulated models underwent iterative evaluation with engagement from diverse stakeholders. Consequently, 3 main concepts, complemented by 72 sub-concepts, were delineated, all fostering positive contributions to climate protection and providing heat supply in the rural study area. The outcomes’ replicability is underscored by the study area’s generic structure and the employed methodology. Through these inquiries, a framework for the requisite energy transition, with a pronounced emphasis on the coupling of waste, wastewater, and agriculture sectors in rural environments, is robustly analyzed. KW - Energiewende KW - Energieplanung KW - Abfallwirtschaft KW - organischer Abfall KW - Biomasse KW - Regionalentwicklung KW - biogene Abfallstoffe KW - Abwassermanagement KW - OA-Publikationsfonds2023 Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20231222-65172 UR - https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/24/16573 VL - 2023 IS - volume 15, issue 24, article 16573 SP - 1 EP - 25 PB - MDPI CY - Basel ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Vogel, Albert A1 - Arnold, Jörg A1 - Voelker, Conrad A1 - Kornadt, Oliver T1 - Data for sound pressure level prediction in lightweight constructions caused by structure-borne sound sources and their uncertainties JF - Data in Brief N2 - When predicting sound pressure levels induced by structure-borne sound sources and describing the sound propagation path through the building structure as exactly as possible, it is necessary to characterize the vibration behavior of the structure-borne sound sources. In this investigation, the characterization of structure-borne sound sources was performed using the two-stage method (TSM) described in EN 15657. Four different structure-borne sound sources were characterized and subsequently installed in a lightweight test stand. The resulting sound pressure levels in an adjacent receiving room were measured. In the second step, sound pressure levels were predicted according to EN 12354-5 based on the parameters of the structure-borne sound sources. Subsequently, the predicted and the measured sound pressure levels were compared to obtain reliable statements on the achievable accuracy when using source quantities determined by TSM with this prediction method. KW - Bauakustik KW - Körperschall KW - building acoustics KW - structure-borne sound KW - sound pressure level prediction KW - structure-borne sound sources KW - OA-Publikationsfonds2023 Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20230719-64114 UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340923004110?via%3Dihub VL - 2023 IS - Volume 48, June 2023, article 109292 SP - 1 EP - 16 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - THES A1 - Dokhanchi, Najmeh Sadat T1 - Measurement of the Indoor Air Temperature Distribution using Acoustic Travel-Time Tomography N2 - One of the main criteria determining the thermal comfort of occupants is the air temperature. To monitor this parameter, a thermostat is traditionally mounted in the indoor environment for instance in office rooms in the workplaces, or directly on the radiator or in another location in a room. One of the drawbacks of this conventional method is the measurement at a certain location instead of the temperature distribution in the entire room including the occupant zone. As a result, the climatic conditions measured at the thermostat point may differ from those at the user's location. This not only negatively impacts the thermal comfort assessment but also leads to a waste of energy due to unnecessary heating and cooling. Moreover, for measuring the distribution of the air temperature under laboratory conditions, multiple thermal sensors should be installed in the area under investigation. This requires high effort in both installation and expense. To overcome the shortcomings of traditional sensors, Acoustic travel-time TOMography (ATOM) offers an alternative based on measuring the transmission sound velocity signals. The basis of the ATOM technique is the first-order dependency of the sound velocity on the medium's temperature. The average sound velocity, along the propagation paths, can be determined by travel-times estimation of a defined acoustic signal between transducers. After the travel-times collection, the room is divided into several volumetric grid cells, i.e. voxels, whose sizes are defined depending on the dimension of the room and the number of sound paths. Accordingly, the spatial air temperature in each voxel can be determined using a suitable tomographic algorithm. Recent studies indicate that despite the great potential of this technique to detect room climate, few experiments have been conducted. This thesis aims to develop the ATOM technique for indoor climatic applications while coupling the analysis methods of tomography and room acoustics. The method developed in this thesis uses high-energy early reflections in addition to the direct paths between transducers for travel time estimation. In this way, reflections can provide multiple sound paths that allow the room coverage to be maintained even when a few or even only one transmitter and receiver are used. In the development of the ATOM measurement system, several approaches have been employed, including the development of numerical methods and simulations and conducting experimental measurements, each of which has contributed to the improvement of the system's accuracy. In order to effectively separate the early reflections and ensure adequate coverage of the room with sound paths, a numerical method was developed based on the optimization of the coordinates of the sound transducers in the test room. The validation of the optimal positioning method shows that the reconstructed temperatures were significantly improved by placing the transducers at the optimal coordinates derived from the developed numerical method. The other numerical method developed is related to the selection of the travel times of the early reflections. Accordingly, the detection of the travel times has been improved by adjusting the lengths of the multiple analysis time-windows according to the individual travel times in the reflectogram of the room impulse response. This can reduce the probability of trapping faulty travel times in the analysis time-windows. The simulation model used in this thesis is based on the image source model (ISM) method for simulating the theoretical travel times of early reflection sound paths. The simulation model was developed to simulate the theoretical travel times up to third-order reflections. The empirical measurements were carried out in the climate lab of the Chair of Building Physics under different boundary conditions, i.e., combinations of different room air temperatures under both steady-state and transient conditions, and different measurement setups. With the measurements under controllable conditions in the climate lab, the validity of the developed numerical methods was confirmed. In this thesis, the performance of the ATOM measurement system was evaluated using two measurement setups. The setup for the initial investigations consists of an omnidirectional receiver and a near omnidirectional sound source, keeping the number of transducers as few as possible. This has led to accurately identify the sources of error that could occur in each part of the measuring system. The second measurement setup consists of two directional sound sources and one omnidirectional receiver. This arrangement of transducers allowed a higher number of well-detected travel times for tomography reconstruction, a better travel time estimation due to the directivity of the sound source, and better space utilization. Furthermore, this new measurement setup was tested to determine an optimal selection of the excitation signal. The results showed that for the utilized setup, a linear chirp signal with a frequency range of 200 - 4000 Hz and a signal duration of t = 1 s represents an optimal selection with respect to the reliability of the measured travel times and higher signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). To evaluate the performance of the measuring setups, the ATOM temperatures were always compared with the temperatures of high-resolution NTC thermistors with an accuracy of ±0.2 K. The entire measurement program, including acoustic measurements, simulation, signal processing, and visualization of measurement results are performed in MATLAB software. In addition, to reduce the uncertainty of the positioning of the transducers, the acoustic centre of the loudspeaker was determined experimentally for three types of excitation signals, namely MLS (maximum length sequence) signals with different lengths and duration, linear and logarithmic chirp signals with different defined frequency ranges. For this purpose, the climate lab was converted into a fully anechoic chamber by attaching absorption panels to the entire surfaces of the room. The measurement results indicated that the measurement of the acoustic centre of the sound source significantly reduces the displacement error of the transducer position. Moreover, to measure the air temperature in an occupied room, an algorithm was developed that can convert distorted signals into pure reference signals using an adaptive filter. The measurement results confirm the validity of the approach for a temperature interval of 4 K inside the climate lab. Accordingly, the accuracy of the reconstructed temperatures indicated that ATOM is very suitable for measuring the air temperature distribution in rooms. T3 - Schriftenreihe der Professur Bauphysik - 8 KW - Bauphysik KW - Acoustic Travel-Time Tomography KW - Bauklimatik Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20230414-49567 SN - 978-3-00-075344-2 (print) ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Alsaad, Hayder A1 - Schälte, Gereon A1 - Schneeweiß, Mario A1 - Becher, Lia A1 - Pollack, Moritz A1 - Gena, Amayu Wakoya A1 - Schweiker, Marcel A1 - Hartmann, Maria A1 - Voelker, Conrad A1 - Rossaint, Rolf A1 - Irrgang, Matthias T1 - The Spread of Exhaled Air and Aerosols during Physical Exercise JF - Journal of Clinical Medicine N2 - Physical exercise demonstrates a special case of aerosol emission due to its associated elevated breathing rate. This can lead to a faster spread of airborne viruses and respiratory diseases. Therefore, this study investigates cross-infection risk during training. Twelve human subjects exercised on a cycle ergometer under three mask scenarios: no mask, surgical mask, and FFP2 mask. The emitted aerosols were measured in a grey room with a measurement setup equipped with an optical particle sensor. The spread of expired air was qualitatively and quantitatively assessed using schlieren imaging. Moreover, user satisfaction surveys were conducted to evaluate the comfort of wearing face masks during training. The results indicated that both surgical and FFP2 masks significantly reduced particles emission with a reduction efficiency of 87.1% and 91.3% of all particle sizes, respectively. However, compared to surgical masks, FFP2 masks provided a nearly tenfold greater reduction of the particle size range with long residence time in the air (0.3–0.5 μm). Furthermore, the investigated masks reduced exhalation spreading distances to less than 0.15 m and 0.1 m in the case of the surgical mask and FFP2 mask, respectively. User satisfaction solely differed with respect to perceived dyspnea between no mask and FFP2 mask conditions. KW - Sport KW - Training KW - Fahrradergometer KW - sport KW - training KW - cycle ergometer KW - schlieren imaging KW - particles concentration KW - OA-Publikationsfonds2023 Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20230208-49262 UR - https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/12/4/1300 VL - 2023 IS - Volume 12, issue 4, article 1300 PB - Basel CY - MDPI ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Becher, Lia A1 - Völker, Conrad A1 - Rodehorst, Volker A1 - Kuhne, Michael T1 - Background-oriented schlieren technique for two-dimensional visualization of convective indoor air flows JF - Optics and Lasers in Engineering N2 - This article focuses on further developments of the background-oriented schlieren (BOS) technique to visualize convective indoor air flow, which is usually defined by very small density gradients. Since the light rays deflect when passing through fluids with different densities, BOS can detect the resulting refractive index gradients as integration along a line of sight. In this paper, the BOS technique is used to yield a two-dimensional visualization of small density gradients. The novelty of the described method is the implementation of a highly sensitive BOS setup to visualize the ascending thermal plume from a heated thermal manikin with temperature differences of minimum 1 K. To guarantee steady boundary conditions, the thermal manikin was seated in a climate laboratory. For the experimental investigations, a high-resolution DLSR camera was used capturing a large field of view with sufficient detail accuracy. Several parameters such as various backgrounds, focal lengths, room air temperatures, and distances between the object of investigation, camera, and structured background were tested to find the most suitable parameters to visualize convective indoor air flow. Besides these measurements, this paper presents the analyzing method using cross-correlation algorithms and finally the results of visualizing the convective indoor air flow with BOS. The highly sensitive BOS setup presented in this article complements the commonly used invasive methods that highly influence weak air flows. KW - Raumklima KW - Raumluftströmungen KW - Flow visualization KW - Convective indoor air flow KW - Background-oriented schlieren KW - Human thermal plume KW - Cross-correlation Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20220810-46972 N1 - This article is published by Elsevier in Optics and Lasers in Engineering 134 (2020) 106282 and may be found at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optlaseng.2020.106282 Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the authors and Elsevier Ltd. VL - 2020 IS - Volume 134, article 106282 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hartmann, Maria A1 - Alsaad, Hayder A1 - Völker, Conrad T1 - Das Potential von Fassadenbegrünungen zur Verringerung des Wärmeinseleffekts: Simulation eines Beispielquartiers T2 - Bauphysiktage Kaiserslautern 2022 N2 - Die Auswirkungen einer Fassadenbegrünung auf den Wärmeinseleffekt in Stuttgart wurde für eine Hitzeperiode numerisch simuliert und bewertet. Die Ergebnisse zeigten positive Auswirkungen innerhalb des Simulationsgebiets sowie eine geringe Fernwirkung auf benachbarte Stadtquartiere. Diese Änderungen können zur Verbesserung des thermischen Komforts im Außenraum beitragen. Eine reduzierte Temperatur der Außenoberfläche führt darüber hinaus auch zu einer geringeren Oberflächentemperatur der Wandinnenseite, welche die Innenraumtemperatur beeinflusst. Folglich kann die thermische Behaglichkeit auch im Innenraum erhöht werden. KW - Mikroklima KW - Envi-Met KW - Städtische Wärmeinsel KW - Fassadenbegrünung KW - Living-wall Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20220713-46676 SN - 978-3-95974-176-7 SN - 2363-8206 CY - Kaiserslautern ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Dokhanchi, Najmeh Sadat ED - Arnold, Jörg T1 - Reconstruction of the indoor air temperature distribution using acoustic travel-time tomography N2 - Acoustic travel-time tomography (ATOM) is being increasingly considered recently as a remote sensing methodology to determine the indoor air temperatures distribution. It employs the relationship between the sound velocities along sound-paths and their related travel-times through measured room-impulse-response (RIR). Thus, the precise travel-time estimation is of critical importance which can be performed by applying an analysis time-window method. In this study, multiple analysis time-windows with different lengths are proposed to overcome the challenge of accurate detection of the travel-times at RIR. Hence, the ATOM-temperatures distribution has been measured at the climate chamber lab of the Bauhaus-University Weimar. As a benchmark, the temperatures of NTC thermistors are compared to the reconstructed temperatures derived from the ATOM technique illustrating this technique can be a reliable substitute for traditional thermal sensors. The numerical results indicate that the selection of an appropriate analysis time-window significantly enhances the accuracy of the reconstructed temperatures distribution. KW - Bauphysik KW - Akustische Laufzeit-Tomographie KW - Acoustic Travel-Time Tomography KW - Bauklimatik Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20220622-46593 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Dokhanchi, Najmeh Sadat ED - Arnold, Jörg T1 - Acoustic travel time tomography: Applicability of an array of directional sound sources N2 - The technique of Acoustic travel-time TOMography (ATOM) allows for measuring the distribution of air temperatures throughout the entire room based on the determined sound-travel-times of early reflections, currently up to second order reflections. The number of detected early reflections in the room impulse response (RIR) which stands for the desired sound paths inside the room, has a significant impact on the resolution of reconstructed temperatures. This study investigates the possibility of utilizing an array of directional sound sources for ATOM measurements instead of a single omnidirectional loudspeaker used in the previous studies [1–3]. The developed measurement setup consists of two directional sound sources placed near the edge of the floor in the climate chamber of the Bauhaus-University Weimar and one omnidirectional receiver at center of the room near the ceiling. In order to compensate for the reduced number of sound paths when using directional sound sources, it is proposed to take high-energy early reflections up to third order into account. For this purpose, the simulated travel times up to third-order image sources were implemented in the image source model (ISM) algorithm, by which these early reflections can be detected effectively for air temperature reconstructions. To minimize the uncertainties of travel-times estimation due to the positioning of the sound transducers inside the room, measurements were conducted to determine the exact emitting point of the utilized sound source i.e. its acoustic center (AC). For these measurements, three types of excitation signals (MLS, linear and logarithmic chirp signals) with various frequency ranges were used considering that the acoustic center of a sound source is a frequency dependent parameter [4]. Furthermore, measurements were conducted to determine an optimum excitation signal based on the given condition of the ATOM measurement set-up which defines an optimum method for the RIR estimation correspondingly. Finally, the uncertainty of the measuring system utilizing an array of directional sound sources was analyzed. KW - Bauphysik KW - Akustische Laufzeit-Tomographie KW - Acoustic Travel-Time Tomography KW - Bauklimatik Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20220622-46589 UR - https://www.dega-akustik.de/publikationen/online-proceedings N1 - This conference paper has been submitted to the DAGA 2022. Thus, the original paper first is published in the "Fortschritte der Akustik - DAGA 2022" ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Alsaad, Hayder A1 - Völker, Conrad T1 - Measuring and visualizing the flow supplied by personalized ventilation T2 - Proceedings Book Roomvent 2020 N2 - This study investigates the flow supplied by personalized ventilation (PV) by means of anemometer measurements and schlieren visualization. The study was conducted using a thermal manikin to simulate a seated occupant facing a PV outlet. Air velocity was measured at multiple points in the flow field; the collected velocity values were used to calculate the turbulence intensity. Results indicated that PV was supplying air with low turbulence intensity that was able to penetrate the convective boundary layer of the manikin to supply clean air for inhalation. The convective boundary layer, however, obstructed the supplied flow and reduced its velocity by a total of 0.26 m/s. The PV flow preserved its value until about 10 cm from the face where velocity started to drop. Further investigations were conducted to test a PV diffuser with a relatively large outlet diameter (18 cm). This diffuser was developed using 3d-modelling and 3d-printing. The diffuser successfully distributed the flow over the larger outlet area. However, the supplied velocity and turbulence fields were not uniform across the section. KW - Belüftung KW - Luftqualität KW - Personalized ventilation KW - Schlieren imaging KW - Air quality KW - Thermal manikin Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20220622-46573 CY - Turin, Italy ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kiesel, Gerd A1 - Engels, Merit A1 - Völker, Conrad ED - Kornadt, Oliver ED - Carrigan, Svenja ED - Hofmann, Markus ED - Völker, Conrad T1 - Energetische Transformation im ländlichen Raum – Aufbau eines prozessorientierten Entwicklungs- und Moderationsmodells T2 - Schriftenreihe des Fachgebiets Bauphysik/Energetische Gebäudeoptimierung N2 - Kleine Kommunen im ländlichen Raum sind aufgrund ihrer oft eingeschränkten personellen und finanziellen Kapazitäten bisher eher sporadisch in den Themenfeldern Energieeffizienz und Erneuerbare Energien aktiv. Immer wieder stellt sich daher Frage, wie die Klimaschutzstrategien des Bundes und der Länder dort mit dem verfügbaren Personal kostengünstig realisierbar sind. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird ein Werkzeug entwickelt, mit dessen Hilfe der aktive Einstieg in diese Thematik mit geringen Aufwand und überwiegend barrierefrei möglich ist. Der Aufbau eines prozessorientierten Entwicklungs- und Moderationsmodells zur Erprobung und Umsetzung bezahlbarer Handlungsoptionen für Energieeinsparungen und effizienten Energieeinsatz im überwiegend ländlichen geprägten Raum ist der Schwerpunkt der Softwarelösung. Kommunen werden mit deren Hilfe in die Lage versetzt, in die notwendigen Prozesse der Energie- und Wärmewende einzusteigen. Dabei soll der modulare Aufbau die regulären Schritte notwendiger (integrierter) Planungsprozesse nicht vollständig ersetzen. Vielmehr können innerhalb der Online-Anwendung - überwiegend automatisiert - konkrete Maßnahmenvorschläge erstellt werden, die ein solides Fundament der künftigen energetischen Entwicklung der Kommunen darstellen. Für eine gezielte Validierung der Ergebnisse und der Ableitung potentieller Maßnahmen werden für die Erprobung Modellkommunen in Thüringen, Bayern und Hessen als Reallabore einbezogen. Das Tool steht bisher zunächst nur den beteiligten Modellkommunen zur Verfügung. Die entwickelte Softwarelösung soll künftig Schritt für Schritt allen interessierten Kommunen mit diversen Hilfsmitteln und einer Vielzahl anderer praktischer Bestandteile zur Verfügung gestellt werden. KW - Modellierung KW - Kommune KW - Energiewende KW - Transformation KW - ländlicher Raum Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20220617-46566 SN - 978-3-95974-176-7 SN - 2363-8206 PB - Eigenverlag Technische Universität Kaiserslautern CY - Kaiserslautern ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Geske, Mara A1 - Benz, Alexander A1 - Völker, Conrad ED - Kornadt, Oliver ED - Carrigan, Svenja ED - Hofmann, Markus ED - Völker, Conrad T1 - Anwendung georeferenzierter Bilddaten bei energetischen Quartiersanalysen T2 - Tagungsband Bauphysiktage Kaiserslautern 2022 N2 - Bei Analysen des Gebäudebestands im Quartierskontext werden zu Dokumentationszwecken viele Bilddaten erzeugt. Diese Daten sind im Nachhinein häufig keinen eindeutig genauen Standorten und Blickwinkeln auf das Bauwerk zuzuordnen. Insbesondere gilt dies für Ortsunkundige oder für Detailaufnahmen. Eine zusätzliche Herausforderung stellt die Aufnahme von Wärmebrücken- oder andersartigen Gebäudedetails durch Thermogramme dar. In der Praxis kommen hier oftmals analoge, fehleranfällige Lösungen zum Einsatz. Durch die Nutzung von Georeferenzierung kann diese Lücke geschlossen und eine eindeutige Kommunikation und Auswertung gewährleistet werden. Im Gegensatz zu den üblichen Kameras sind Smartphones nach Stand der Technik ausreichend ausgestattet, um neben Daten zu Standort auch die Orientierungswinkel einer Bildaufnahme zu dokumentieren. Die georefenzierten Bilder können auf Grundlage der in den sogenannten Exif-Daten mitgeschriebenen Informationen händisch in ein bestehendes Quartiersmodell integriert werden. Anhand eines universitären Musterquartiers wird die nutzerfreundliche Realisierung beispielhaft erprobt und auf ihre Potentiale zur Automatisierung in Python untersucht. Hierfür wurde ein bestehendes Quartiersmodell als geometrische Grundlage genutzt und um RGB-Bilder sowie Thermogramme erweitert. Das beschriebene Vorgehen wird im Rahmen der Anwendung auf seinen möglichen Einsatz im Rahmen einer energetischen Quartierserfassung sowie einer Bauschadensdokumentation untersucht. Mit dem vorliegenden Beitrag wird dem Nutzenden ein Werkzeug bereitgestellt, das die hochwertige Dokumentation einer Bestandserfassung, auch im Quartierskontext, ermöglicht. KW - Quartiersanalyse KW - Bilddaten KW - Bauphysik und Sanierung Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20220617-46544 SN - 987-3-95974-176-7 SN - 2363-8206 PB - Eigenverlag der Technischen Universität Kaiserslautern CY - Kaiserslautern ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Dokhanchi, Najmeh Sadat A1 - Arnold, Jörg A1 - Vogel, Albert A1 - Völker, Conrad T1 - Measurement of indoor air temperature distribution using acoustic travel-time tomography: Optimization of transducers location and sound-ray coverage of the room JF - Measurement N2 - Acoustic travel-time TOMography (ATOM) allows the measurement and reconstruction of air temperature distributions. Due to limiting factors, such as the challenge of travel-time estimation of the early reflections in the room impulse response, which heavily depends on the position of transducers inside the measurement area, ATOM is applied mainly outdoors. To apply ATOM in buildings, this paper presents a numerical solution to optimize the positions of transducers. This optimization avoids reflection overlaps, leading to distinguishable travel-times in the impulse response reflectogram. To increase the accuracy of the measured temperature within tomographic voxels, an additional function is employed to the proposed numerical method to minimize the number of sound-path-free voxels, ensuring the best sound-ray coverage of the room. Subsequently, an experimental set-up has been performed to verify the proposed numerical method. The results indicate the positive impact of the optimal positions of transducers on the distribution of ATOM-temperatures. KW - Bauphysik KW - Bauklimatik KW - Akustische Laufzeit-Tomographie Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20220524-46473 UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0263224120304723?via%3Dihub VL - 2020 IS - Volume 164, article 107934 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Alsaad, Hayder A1 - Hartmann, Maria A1 - Hilbel, Rebecca A1 - Völker, Conrad T1 - ENVI-met validation data accompanied with simulation data of the impact of facade greening on the urban microclimate JF - Data in Brief N2 - This dataset consists mainly of two subsets. The first subset includes measurements and simulation data conducted to validate the simulation tool ENVI-met. The measurements were conducted at the campus of the Bauhaus-University Weimar in Weimar, Germany and consisted of recording exterior air temperature, globe temperature, relative humidity, and wind velocity at 1.5 m at four points on four different days. After the measurements, the geometry of the campus was modelled and meshed; the simulations were conducted using the weather data of the measurements days with the aim of investigating the accuracy of the model. The second data subset consists of ENVI-met simulation data of the potential of facade greening in improving the outdoor environment and the indoor air temperature during heatwaves in Central European cities. The data consist of the boundary conditions and the simulation output of two simulation models: with and without facade greening. The geometry of the models corresponded to a residential buildings district in Stuttgart, Germany. The simulation output consisted of exterior air temperature, mean radiant temperature, relative humidity, and wind velocity at 12 different probe points in the model in addition to the indoor air temperature of an exemplary building. The dataset presents both vertical profiles of the probed parameters as well as the time series output of the five-day simulation duration. Both data subsets correspond to the investigations presented in the co-submitted article [1]. KW - Messung KW - Measurements KW - Simulations KW - ENVI-met KW - Living wall KW - Green facade KW - Simulation KW - OA-Publikationsfonds2022 Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20220511-46455 UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340922004048#! VL - 2022 IS - Volume 42, article 108200 SP - 1 EP - 13 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Teitelbaum, Eric A1 - Alsaad, Hayder A1 - Aviv, Dorit A1 - Kim, Alexander A1 - Völker, Conrad A1 - Meggers, Forrest A1 - Pantelic, Jovan T1 - Addressing a systematic error correcting for free and mixed convection when measuring mean radiant temperature with globe thermometers JF - Scientific reports N2 - It is widely accepted that most people spend the majority of their lives indoors. Most individuals do not realize that while indoors, roughly half of heat exchange affecting their thermal comfort is in the form of thermal infrared radiation. We show that while researchers have been aware of its thermal comfort significance over the past century, systemic error has crept into the most common evaluation techniques, preventing adequate characterization of the radiant environment. Measuring and characterizing radiant heat transfer is a critical component of both building energy efficiency and occupant thermal comfort and productivity. Globe thermometers are typically used to measure mean radiant temperature (MRT), a commonly used metric for accounting for the radiant effects of an environment at a point in space. In this paper we extend previous field work to a controlled laboratory setting to (1) rigorously demonstrate that existing correction factors used in the American Society of Heating Ventilation and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Standard 55 or ISO7726 for using globe thermometers to quantify MRT are not sufficient; (2) develop a correction to improve the use of globe thermometers to address problems in the current standards; and (3) show that mean radiant temperature measured with ping-pong ball-sized globe thermometers is not reliable due to a stochastic convective bias. We also provide an analysis of the maximum precision of globe sensors themselves, a piece missing from the domain in contemporary literature. KW - Strahlungstemperatur KW - Mean radiant temperature KW - Globe thermometers KW - Indoor environment KW - Thermal comfort KW - Measurements KW - OA-Publikationsfonds2022 Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20220509-46363 UR - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-10172-5#citeas VL - 2022 IS - Volume 12, article 6473 PB - Springer Nature CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Becher, Lia A1 - Gena, Amayu Wakoya A1 - Alsaad, Hayder A1 - Richter, Bernhard A1 - Spahn, Claudia A1 - Völker, Conrad T1 - The spread of breathing air from wind instruments and singers using schlieren techniques JF - Indoor Air N2 - The spread of breathing air when playing wind instruments and singing was investigated and visualized using two methods: (1) schlieren imaging with a schlieren mirror and (2) background-oriented schlieren (BOS). These methods visualize airflow by visualizing density gradients in transparent media. The playing of professional woodwind and brass instrument players, as well as professional classical trained singers were investigated to estimate the spread distances of the breathing air. For a better comparison and consistent measurement series, a single high note, a single low note, and an extract of a musical piece were investigated. Additionally, anemometry was used to determine the velocity of the spreading breathing air and the extent to which it was quantifiable. The results showed that the ejected airflow from the examined instruments and singers did not exceed a spreading range of 1.2 m into the room. However, differences in the various instruments have to be considered to assess properly the spread of the breathing air. The findings discussed below help to estimate the risk of cross-infection for wind instrument players and singers and to develop efficacious safety precautions, which is essential during critical health periods such as the current COVID-19 pandemic. KW - Covid-19 KW - Pandemie KW - Blasinstrument KW - Gesang KW - Schlierenmethode KW - airborne infection KW - background-oriented schlieren KW - schlieren imaging Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20220209-45817 UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ina.12869 VL - 2021 IS - volume 31, issue 6 SP - 1798 EP - 1814 PB - Wiley Blackwell CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Alsaad, Hayder A1 - Hartmann, Maria A1 - Völker, Conrad T1 - Hygrothermal simulation data of a living wall system for decentralized greywater treatment JF - Data in Brief N2 - This dataset presents the numerical analysis of the heat and moisture transport through a facade equipped with a living wall system designated for greywater treatment. While such greening systems provide many environmental benefits, they involve pumping large quantities of water onto the wall assembly, which can increase the risk of moisture in the wall as well as impaired energetic performance due to increased thermal conductivity with increased moisture content in the building materials. This dataset was acquired through numerical simulation using the coupling of two simulation tools, namely Envi-Met and Delphin. This coupling was used to include the complex role the plants play in shaping the near-wall environmental parameters in the hygrothermal simulations. Four different wall assemblies were investigated, each assembly was assessed twice: with and without the living wall. The presented data include the input and output parameters of the simulations, which were presented in the co-submitted article [1]. KW - Kupplung KW - Feuchteleitung KW - Heat transport KW - Moisture transport KW - Living wall KW - Wärmeübertragung KW - coupling KW - ENVI-Met KW - Delphin KW - OA-Publikationsfonds2022 Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20220106-45483 UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340921010167?via%3Dihub VL - 2022 IS - volume 40, article 107741 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - INPR A1 - Bode, Matthias A1 - Marx, Steffen A1 - Vogel, Albert A1 - Völker, Conrad T1 - Dissipationsenergie bei Ermüdungsversuchen an Betonprobekörpern N2 - Aufgrund des visko-elastoplastischen Materialverhaltens von Beton wird Probekörpern und Bauteilen infolge zyklischer Beanspruchungen Energie zugeführt. Die entsprechenden Energiegrößen werden durch Hystereseflächen der Spannungs-Dehnungslinien beschrieben. In der Literatur finden sich dabei unterschiedliche Ansätze, wofür diese Energie verwendet wird. Erste Untersuchungen zeigen, dass zumindest ein Teil dieser dissipierten Energie in thermische Energie umgewandelt wird. Mithilfe der in diesem Beitrag beschriebenen Methodik lassen sich diese Energiegrößen für jeden Lastwechsel eines Ermüdungsversuches schnell und zuverlässig bestimmen. Anschließend wurden mit dem implementierten Algorithmus die dissipierten Energien von insgesamt 27 zyklischen Versuchen ausgewertet. Analog zu der Dehnungsentwicklung und der Steifigkeitsdegradation weisen auch die Verläufe der dissipierten Energie über die Lastwechselzahl einen dreiphasigen Verlauf auf. Die Auswertung zeigt außerdem eine Korrelation zwischen der Bruchlastwechselzahl und der dissipierten Energie. Auch der Zusammenhang zwischen Probekörpererwärmung und dissipierter Energie konnte bestätigt werden. KW - Ermüdung KW - Beton KW - Dissipationsenergie KW - Probekörpererwärmung Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20211012-44938 UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/best.201900004 N1 - This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/best.201900004, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/best.201900004 VL - 2019 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Alsaad, Hayder A1 - Völker, Conrad T1 - Qualitative evaluation of the flow supplied by personalized ventilation using schlieren imaging and thermography JF - Building and Environment N2 - Personalized ventilation (PV) is a mean of delivering conditioned outdoor air into the breathing zone of the occupants. This study aims to qualitatively investigate the personalized flows using two methods of visualization: (1) schlieren imaging using a large schlieren mirror and (2) thermography using an infrared camera. While the schlieren imaging was used to render the velocity and mass transport of the supplied flow, thermography was implemented to visualize the air temperature distribution induced by the PV. Both studies were conducted using a thermal manikin to simulate an occupant facing a PV outlet. As a reference, the flow supplied by an axial fan and a cased axial fan was visualized with the schlieren system as well and compared to the flow supplied by PV. Schlieren visualization results indicate that the steady, low-turbulence flow supplied by PV was able to penetrate the thermal convective boundary layer encasing the manikin's body, providing clean air for inhalation. Contrarily, the axial fan diffused the supplied air over a large target area with high turbulence intensity; it only disturbed the convective boundary layer rather than destroying it. The cased fan supplied a flow with a reduced target area which allowed supplying more air into the breathing zone compared to the fan. The results of thermography visualization showed that the supplied cool air from PV penetrated the corona-shaped thermal boundary layer. Furthermore, the supplied air cooled the surface temperature of the face, which indicates the large impact of PV on local thermal sensation and comfort. KW - Bildverarbeitung KW - Photothermische Methode KW - Visualisierung KW - Belüftung KW - Lüftungsanlage KW - Schlieren imaging KW - Thermography KW - Visualization KW - Personalized ventilation KW - Axial fan Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20211008-45117 UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0360132319306602?via%3Dihub N1 - This is the accepted manuscript of the article published by Elsevier in Building and Environment 167 (2020) 106450, which can be found at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2019.106450. VL - 2020 IS - Volume 167, article 106450 PB - Elsevier CY - New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Alsaad, Hayder A1 - Völker, Conrad T1 - Der Kühlungseffekt der personalisierten Lüftung T1 - The cooling effect of personalized ventilation systems JF - Bauphysik N2 - Personalisierte Lüftung (PL) kann die thermische Behaglichkeit sowie die Qualität der eingeatmeten Atemluft verbessern, in dem jedem Arbeitsplatz Frischluft separat zugeführt wird. In diesem Beitrag wird die Wirkung der PL auf die thermische Behaglichkeit der Nutzer unter sommerlichen Randbedingungen untersucht. Hierfür wurden zwei Ansätze zur Bewertung des Kühlungseffekts der PL untersucht: basierend auf (1) der äquivalenten Temperatur und (2) dem thermischen Empfinden. Grundlage der Auswertung sind in einer Klimakammer gemessene sowie numerisch simulierte Daten. Vor der Durchführung der Simulationen wurde das numerische Modell zunächst anhand der gemessenen Daten validiert. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass der Ansatz basierend auf dem thermischen Empfinden zur Evaluierung des Kühlungseffekts der PL sinnvoller sein kann, da bei diesem die komplexen physiologischen Faktoren besser berücksichtigt werden. N2 - Personalized ventilation (PV) can improve thermal comfort and inhaled air quality by supplying air to each workstation separately. This study investigates the impact of PV on the thermal state of the users under summer boundary conditions. Two approaches to evaluating the cooling effect of PV were investigated, based on equivalent temperature and based on thermal sensation. Both approaches implemented measured and simulated values of the cooling effect of PV. Before conducting the simulations, the numerical model was first validated against measured data collected in a climate chamber equipped with a thermal manikin. Results indicated that the thermal sensation approach can be more suitable for evaluating the cooling effect of PV due to the complex physiological factors it considers. KW - Lüftung KW - Strömung KW - Raumklima KW - Temperatur KW - personalized ventilation KW - computational fluid dynamics KW - Simulation KW - personalisierte Lüftung KW - äquivalente Temperatur KW - thermisches Empfinden Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20201020-42723 UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bapi.202000018 N1 - © 2020 Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin. Dieser Artikel kann für den persönlichen Gebrauch heruntergeladen werden. Andere Verwendungen bedürfen der vorherigen Zustimmung der Autoren und des Verlags Ernst & Sohn. Der folgende Artikel erschien in der Bauphysik 42 (2020), Heft 5, 218-225, DOI: 10.1002/bapi.202000018 VL - 2020 IS - volume 42, issue 5 SP - 218 EP - 225 PB - Ernst & Sohn bei John Wiley & Sons CY - Hoboken ER -