Evaluation of Electricity Consumption of a Residential Flat in Egypt

Mofreh M. Nassief

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Evaluation of Electricity Consumption of a Residential Flat in Egypt

Mofreh M. Nassief

Published in American Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems (Volume 3, Issue 2)

Received: 13 March 2014 Accepted: 9 April 2014 Published: 10 April 2014

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Energy saving is one of the most important demands in our world .The aim of this paper is to evaluate the annual electrical energy consumption of a residential flat in EGYPT and how to reduce it. This evaluation includes the compatibility of a flat for the Egyptian code requirements of residential buildings. This flat is of a total area of 160 m2 with one façade opening. A software package Visual-Doe 4.0 was used for this analysis. Three different climatic regions were used for this analysis: Cairo, Alexandria and Aswan cities with different weather conditions (due to their geographical location on latitude 30.1, 31.2 and 24 respectively). The results give the minimum requirements of walls insulation (2.5cm) for different orientation and different climatic location. Also an average maximum reduction of about 17.11 % of the total electrical energy consumption with insulation 5cm compared to the actual consumption is fulfilled

Published in	American Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems (Volume 3, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.epes.20140302.14
Page(s)	37-44
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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HVAC, Systems, Electricity, Consumption, Thermal, Insulation

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Mofreh M. Nassief. Evaluation of Electricity Consumption of a Residential Flat in Egypt. Am. J. Electr. Power Energy Syst. 2014, 3(2), 37-44. doi: 10.11648/j.epes.20140302.14

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Mofreh M. Nassief. Evaluation of Electricity Consumption of a Residential Flat in Egypt. Am J Electr Power Energy Syst. 2014;3(2):37-44. doi: 10.11648/j.epes.20140302.14

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Faculty of Engineering Zagazig University Egypt

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