Research/Studies Opportunities

Academia and researchers are welcome to do research / studies in the Low Energy Office (LEO) Building. The possible area of studies is as below;

  1. Natural Ventilation / Hybrid Ventilation Study at the Atrium
    1. Thermal Comfort
    2. Condensation possibility with hybrid ventilation
    3. Control Strategy of hybrid ventilation to minimize energy use in building.
    4. Energy effect of large internal surface exposed to outside air temperature.

  2. Daylight Study
    1. Glare study of a primary daylight use building
    2. Daylight illuminance (brightness) in office space.
    3. Use of Blind.
      1. Manual/Automatic
      2. Venetian blind / Roller blind & etc
    4. Hours of daylight use
    5. Lighting Quality
    6. Use of Automatic solar controlled blind
      1. At thermal flue
      2. Maybe at east facing façade

  3. Energy Efficient Use of Space/Area
    1. Interior Layout to have more people benefiting from the use of natural daylight.
    2. Social aspect
       
  4. Thermal Flue (Solar Chimney)
    1. Ventilation rate
    2. Effectiveness to provide air movement at the lobby.
    3. Others…

  5. Thermal Comfort Study
    1. Verification of Fanger's Equation and applicability of it in Malaysia .
    2. Other thermal comfort theory and applicability of it in Malaysia .

  6. Evaporative Cooling (Spray Mist Cooling)
    1. Comfort vs. Energy Use
    2. Condensation possibility
    3. Atrium spray mist cooling
    4. Inlet/Outlet duct spray mist cooling. 

  7. Internal Air Quality
    1. Temperature, Humidity, CO 2 , Air-Changes.

  8. Heat recovery wheel
    1. Verification of performance
    2. Heat recovery exchanger vs. Desiccant Heat Recovery Wheel.
    3. Heat pipes

  9. Condensation and Energy
    1. Increasing air-conditioned space humidity level (reducing latent load) to MS 1525 recommendation of up to 70% humidity.
    2. Fungus & Mold growth
    3. Thermal comfort
    4. Economic study of increased fan power, larger ductwork vs. reduced capacity of cooling coil & energy saving.

  10. Intelligent Building Management & Energy Management/Monitoring System
    1. Energy Baseline/Map/Flowchart
    2. Energy Equation
    3. Energy Balance
    4. Improving the PID of the VAVs and VSDs local controllers.

  11. Energy Efficient Lighting & Control System
    1. Cost Effectiveness Study
    2. On-off cycle of lighting system in a primary daylight building
    3. Lighting Quality

  12. Variable-Air-Volume Air Conditioning System
    1. Thermal Comfort
    2. Energy Use
    3. Zoning control & layout

  13. Night time (or early morning) Ventilation of Building with Fresh Air
    1. Energy Saving potential
    2. Operation & Control Strategy
    3. Benefits – Cooling of internal mass, Fresh air intake during low temperature hours.
    4. Use of thermal mass?

  14. Others, please propose...

Please contact us if you are interested to do any study on Low Energy Office Building.