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Experimental comparison of green facades with outdoor test cells during a hot humid season

Kokogiannakis, Georgios; Darkwa, Jo; Badeka, Sofia; Li, Yilin

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Authors

Georgios Kokogiannakis

JO DARKWA Jo.Darkwa@nottingham.ac.uk
Professor of Energy Storage Technologies

Sofia Badeka

Yilin Li



Abstract

We used outdoor test cells during a hot humid period to analyse the surface temperatures behind the following four types of green walls: a felt layer wall; a planter boxes wall; a direct climbing plants wall, and; an indirect climbing plants wall. We compared these temperatures with temperatures of a bare wall and we found that all four types of green facades were able to maintain lower temperatures than the bare wall, and that the felt layer and planter boxes wall had lower temperatures than the other walls for the majority of the study period. In particular, the daily average and peak surface temperatures behind the felt layer wall were by 1.9°C–4.8°C and by 7.1°C–13.4°C respectively lower than the bare wall. We undertook a significance analysis and produced Pearson coefficients to better understand the relationship between average daily weather conditions and the surface temperatures on all five test cells. We noted that the average daily solar radiation flux did not affect the surface temperatures behind the planter boxes and felt layer walls, but the daily average ambient air temperature was significantly correlated with the average and peak surface temperatures behind all four green facades. Finally, we concluded that the cooling potential of the felt layer and the planter boxes walls increases with higher amounts of solar radiation and higher ambient temperatures. In addition, from the analysis of the diurnal temperature variations and the time series trends we illustrated that the temperatures behind the felt layer and planter boxes walls fluctuated less than the other walls, which lead to a slower rate of surface temperature reductions during a cooler day than the other wall types of the study.

Citation

Kokogiannakis, G., Darkwa, J., Badeka, S., & Li, Y. (2019). Experimental comparison of green facades with outdoor test cells during a hot humid season. Energy and Buildings, 185, 196-209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2018.12.038

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Dec 28, 2018
Online Publication Date Jan 7, 2019
Publication Date Feb 15, 2019
Deposit Date Jan 3, 2019
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Energy and Buildings
Print ISSN 0378-7788
Publisher Elsevier
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 185
Pages 196-209
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2018.12.038
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1442652
Publisher URL https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378778818329906
Additional Information This article is maintained by: Elsevier; Article Title: Experimental comparison of green facades with outdoor test cells during a hot humid season; Journal Title: Energy and Buildings; CrossRef DOI link to publisher maintained version: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2018.12.038; Content Type: article; Copyright: © 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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