Influence of an active living wall on indoor temperature and humidity conditions

Living walls are systems that allow the development of vegetation in a vertical surface attached to building facades or indoor walls. Traditionally, they have behaved as ‘passive’ bio-filters, but new approaches and technologies are moving towards their integration within the building's air con...

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Autores: Pérez Urrestarazu, Luis, Fernández Cañero, Rafael, Franco Salas, Antonio, Egea Cegarra, Gregorio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/79666
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/79666
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2016.01.050
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Living walls
Evaporative cooling
Indoor enviromental
Vertical garden
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spelling Influence of an active living wall on indoor temperature and humidity conditionsPérez Urrestarazu, LuisFernández Cañero, RafaelFranco Salas, AntonioEgea Cegarra, GregorioLiving wallsEvaporative coolingIndoor enviromentalVertical gardenLiving walls are systems that allow the development of vegetation in a vertical surface attached to building facades or indoor walls. Traditionally, they have behaved as ‘passive’ bio-filters, but new approaches and technologies are moving towards their integration within the building's air conditioning and ventilation systems. In an Active Living Wall (ALW), air is forced to pass through the vegetated wall to take advantage of their evaporative cooling potential as well as the capacity of these biological systems to purify air. In the case of indoor ALWs, air is cooled, bio-filtered and humidified thus potentially reducing ventilation requirements. This work describes a prototypic indoor ALWs installed at the University of Seville (Spain). Preliminary results of its performance on indoor air conditions (temperature and humidity) are presented and discussed. Drops in temperature between 0.8 and 4.8 °C have been observed at different distances from the ALW. The cooling process was more efficient when the initial conditions of the room were drier and warmer.ElsevierIngeniería Aeroespacial y Mecánica de FluidosAGR268: Naturación Urbana e Ingeniería de Biosistemas2016info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/11441/79666https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2016.01.050reponame:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevillainstname:Universidad de Sevilla (US)InglésEcological Engineering, 2016 (90), 120 p.-124 p..https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2016.01.050info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:idus.us.es:11441/796662026-06-17T12:51:07Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Influence of an active living wall on indoor temperature and humidity conditions
title Influence of an active living wall on indoor temperature and humidity conditions
spellingShingle Influence of an active living wall on indoor temperature and humidity conditions
Pérez Urrestarazu, Luis
Living walls
Evaporative cooling
Indoor enviromental
Vertical garden
title_short Influence of an active living wall on indoor temperature and humidity conditions
title_full Influence of an active living wall on indoor temperature and humidity conditions
title_fullStr Influence of an active living wall on indoor temperature and humidity conditions
title_full_unstemmed Influence of an active living wall on indoor temperature and humidity conditions
title_sort Influence of an active living wall on indoor temperature and humidity conditions
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Pérez Urrestarazu, Luis
Fernández Cañero, Rafael
Franco Salas, Antonio
Egea Cegarra, Gregorio
author Pérez Urrestarazu, Luis
author_facet Pérez Urrestarazu, Luis
Fernández Cañero, Rafael
Franco Salas, Antonio
Egea Cegarra, Gregorio
author_role author
author2 Fernández Cañero, Rafael
Franco Salas, Antonio
Egea Cegarra, Gregorio
author2_role author
author
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Ingeniería Aeroespacial y Mecánica de Fluidos
AGR268: Naturación Urbana e Ingeniería de Biosistemas
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Living walls
Evaporative cooling
Indoor enviromental
Vertical garden
topic Living walls
Evaporative cooling
Indoor enviromental
Vertical garden
description Living walls are systems that allow the development of vegetation in a vertical surface attached to building facades or indoor walls. Traditionally, they have behaved as ‘passive’ bio-filters, but new approaches and technologies are moving towards their integration within the building's air conditioning and ventilation systems. In an Active Living Wall (ALW), air is forced to pass through the vegetated wall to take advantage of their evaporative cooling potential as well as the capacity of these biological systems to purify air. In the case of indoor ALWs, air is cooled, bio-filtered and humidified thus potentially reducing ventilation requirements. This work describes a prototypic indoor ALWs installed at the University of Seville (Spain). Preliminary results of its performance on indoor air conditions (temperature and humidity) are presented and discussed. Drops in temperature between 0.8 and 4.8 °C have been observed at different distances from the ALW. The cooling process was more efficient when the initial conditions of the room were drier and warmer.
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