Estimating the Building Based Energy Consumption as an Anthropogenic Contribution to Urban Heat Islands

Peter Boehme; Matthias Berger; Tobias Massier

doi:10.1016/j.scs.2015.05.006

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Estimating the Building Based Energy Consumption as an Anthropogenic Contribution to Urban Heat Islands

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Type:

Journal article Open access

Authors:

Peter Boehme, Matthias Berger and Tobias Massier

Published in:

Sustainable Cities and Society, vol. 19
(Electronic ISSN: 2210-6707)

Publisher:

Elsevier, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

Publication date:

December 2015

Pages:

373–384

Abstract:

Today the implication of buildings' electricity demand on the outdoor climate around buildings is not fully understood. For tropical cities like Singapore, where air-conditioning is required throughout the year and high rise buildings irregularly alternate with lower buildings, the distribution of this so called anthropogenic heat emissions in time and space is determining the local and overall contribution to the urban heat island (UHI). In the absence of detailed measurements calculating the local consumption can be challenging. We present a methodology which combines a top-down disaggregation of sectoral electricity consumption with a bottom-up geographic information system (GIS) derived building database for obtaining anthropogenic heat emission maps with high spatial resolution. The database has been validated through control samples. Using the example of Singapore we can show that heat emissions are more inhomogeneous and higher in magnitude than previously estimated. Our method can now be employed to generate better UHI models by identifying areas with significant anthropogenic heat emissions.

Keywords:

Urban heat island, Anthropogenic heat, Building electricity consumption

DOI:

10.1016/j.scs.2015.05.006

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Part of project:

TUMCREATE Phase I — The Centre for Electromobility in Tropical Megacities

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  author    = {Boehme, Peter and Berger, Matthias and Massier, Tobias},
  title     = {Estimating the Building Based Energy Consumption as an Anthropogenic Contribution to Urban Heat Islands},
  year      = {2015},
  month     = dec,
  journal   = {Sustainable Cities and Society},
  issn      = {2210-6707},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  address   = {Amsterdam, The Netherlands},
  volume    = {19},
  pages     = {373--384},
  doi       = {10.1016/j.scs.2015.05.006},
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}

@article{Boehme_EstimatingBuildingBased_2015,
  author       = {Boehme, Peter and Berger, Matthias and Massier, Tobias},
  title        = {Estimating the Building Based Energy Consumption as an Anthropogenic Contribution to Urban Heat Islands},
  date         = {2015-12},
  journaltitle = {Sustainable Cities and Society},
  issn         = {2210-6707},
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  location     = {Amsterdam, The Netherlands},
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  pages        = {373--384},
  doi          = {10.1016/j.scs.2015.05.006},
  keywords     = {Urban heat island, Anthropogenic heat, Building electricity consumption},
}

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