TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sachin (PBE20296)
AU  - Damle, Rashmin (Guide)
TI  - Evaluating Air Infiltration rates for residential apartments in Ahmedabad and its effect on thermal transmittance value of the building envelope: Onsite measurements and energy simulation (Softcopy is also available) 
U1  - MBEP TH-0071  
PY  - 2022///
N1  - Contents
Acknowledgment       3
Abstract     4
1. Introduction   9
1.1 Background       9 
1.2 Purpose Statement   10
1.3 Research questions:        10
1.4 Research objectives:       10
1.5 Significance of the study:   10
2. Literature Review   12
2.1 Energy consumption and airtightness    13
2.2 Building components & airtightness   13
2.3 Methods for measuring infiltration rates   14
2.4 Indian Scenario  15
3. Research Methodology      16
3.1 Sample Collection      17
Sample Size and its criteria    17
3.2 Onsite measurement and experimentation   17
Method of Onsite Measurements & Data Gathering   17
3.3 The procedure of the Measurements  18
3.4 Experimentation   19
Pre-test measures   19
Equipment Set-up       19
Conducting the Experiment     20
Collating the Data and Data cleansing       21
3.5 Simulation Method     21
4. Experimental Results       22
5. Simulation-based analysis   29
5.1 Simulation Methodology   29
6. Conclusions   32
6.1 Limitation of the study   32
6.2 Future scope   32
7. References   33
8. APPENDIX I    35
8.1 Blower door equipment   35
9. APPENDIX II    37
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