Residential Passive House 180 m.sq.
plus 2 year data logging.
Project overview:
Team Members: Maurice Falvey, Designer and Supplier of Compact P heat pump. Certified Passive House in Kerry with installed Nilan Compact P heat pump cost €273 per year to run. Whilst maintaining +20degC in the house, all domestic hot water heating at +50degC and ventilation / passive heat recovery including air heating via Air-to-Air heat pump.
Products installed:
Nilan Compact P
Description of project:
Passive House Association of Ireland, Briefing video link.
Link to Report; Nilan Ireland _2 years monitoring of CPH Kerry_13th See The Light.
2 KW output geothermal heating module was integrated in to Compact P and was connected to a zoned underfloor heating system as back up to Air-to-Air space heating system. This was only switched on for 3 months and operated in hallway and a bathroom , however, at all times the warm air heating was primary heating source.
SERVE Conference 2012 – Pathways to 2020 Presentation
There was no stove installed in the house, so all energy consumed was relating to electrical consumption.
The interesting fact from 2 years of monitoring, the summer by-pass valve was open for 46% of the time meaning that the house was in a ventilation mode. At least the Compact P can produce domestic hot water from exhaust air and not all the exhaust energy was wasted as you would typically find in standard MVHR unit.
