Building water dissipation (BWD) refers to the change of water into vapour during water use activities in the building. The intention of the work described in this paper was to explore the BWD mechanism and establish a calculation model for BWD. The main research methods included experimental monitoring, a questionnaire survey and data mining. The results of this work showed that the capacity of buildings and the building area determine the type of water dissipation whereas the building population determines the BWD volume. The BWD calculation model was thus built based on two key parameters – building area and building population. Multi-variate regression fitting was used to analyse and study the other factors that influence BWD, such as water consumption, number of floors and so on. Using cluster analysis, 100 sample buildings were divided into different categories. Ordinary least squares regression was used to fit the multi-variate regression for the BWD of sample buildings. The results showed that the classification of buildings by cluster analysis can enhance the fitting effect of multi-variate regression of BWD.
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Jinjun Zhou, PhD
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Jinjun Zhou, PhD
Reader, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, State Key Laboratory of Simulation and Regulation of Water Cycle in River Basin, Beijing, China
Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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Jiahong Liu, PhD;
Jiahong Liu, PhD
Professor, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, State Key Laboratory of Simulation and Regulation of Water Cycle in River Basin, Beijing, China
Engineering and Technology Research Center for Water resources and Hydroecology of the Ministry of Water Resources, Beijing, China (corresponding author: liujh@iwhr.com)
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Hao Wang, PhD;
Hao Wang, PhD
Professor, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, State Key Laboratory of Simulation and Regulation of Water Cycle in River Basin, Beijing, China
Engineering and Technology Research Center for Water resources and Hydroecology of the Ministry of Water Resources, Beijing, China
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Zhongjing Wang, PhD
Zhongjing Wang, PhD
Professor, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Received:
June 28 2018
Accepted:
January 07 2019
Online ISSN: 1751-7729
Print ISSN: 1741-7589
ICE Publishing: All rights reserved
2019
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Water Management (2019) 172 (6): 312–322.
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Received:
June 28 2018
Accepted:
January 07 2019
Citation
Zhou J, Liu J, Wang H, Wang Z (2019), "Simulation of water dissipation in urban buildings". Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Water Management, Vol. 172 No. 6 pp. 312–322, doi: https://doi.org/10.1680/jwama.18.00049
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