Energy Saving Opportunities in Buildings through Energy Lighting Simulation

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Energy Saving Opportunities in Buildings through Energy Lighting Simulation 
Building Envelope
1.     Over deck/ Under deck insulation for roof to reduce heat gain
2.     High SRI coating / Roof reflective coating
3.     Wall insulation in the identified locations (location and building specific)
4.     Blinds/louvers/glass film for glare and heat reduction and Improve visual comfort and energy efficiency (facade specific)
5.     Shading optimization / Shading depth/ Cur maximum heat gain on glass 
6.   Optimise building orientation (maximum day light and energy)
7.   Analyse strategies for Buffer zone to reduse heat gain for conditioned areas
8.   Efffect of tree shade/ green wall/ living wall on building envelpe heat gain
9.   Building envelope measure and improvement in Indoor Thermal Environment 
10.  Analyse for Mean Radiant Temperate (MRT) on core and perimeter areas
Chillers
6.       Installation of VFD for cooling tower fans and operating stand by cooling towers
7.       Avoid flow through idle running chillers
8.       Optimize the loading of chillers
9.       Installation of energy efficient chillers (<0.55 kW/TR)
10.   Adiabatic cooling system for air cooled condenser based chillers
11.   Installation of evaporative condenser for chillers
12.   Installation of Variable refrigerant flow systems
13.   Installation of solar water/steam heating based Vapour absorption system
14.   Geothermal based water condensers
15.   Replacement of thermostatic expansion valves with electronic expansion valves
16.   Installation of online condenser cleaning system for reducing the scaling and enhancing the heat transfer coefficient in condenser
17.   Installation of VFDs and operating chilled water pumps and operating pressure based on feedback
18.   Replace the existing pumps with energy efficient pumps
19.  Passive cooling integration with active cooling/ heating system
Air Handling Units
19.   Installation of Variable frequency drives for air handling fans
20.   Installing permanent magnet synchronous motors for AHU fans
21.   Replacing existing fans with energy efficient fans
22.   Converting belt driven drives to direct drives
23.   Installation of Variable air volume system
Lighting
24.   Replacing existing lighting with LED
25.   Installation of occupancy sensors for lighting
26.   Installation of voltage stabilizer for buildings
27.   Switching off idle running transformers

28.   Optimize the load on transformers

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