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Title: | Quantitative evaluation of plant evapotranspiration effect for green roof in tropical area: A case study in Singapore | Authors: | He, Yang Lin, Ervine Shengwei Tan, Chun Liang Tan, Puay Yok Wong, Nyuk Hien |
Keywords: | Science & Technology Technology Construction & Building Technology Energy & Fuels Engineering, Civil Engineering Green roof Evapotranspiration Field measurement Prediction model Passive cooling ARTIFICIAL NEURAL-NETWORKS MASS-TRANSFER BUILDING ENERGY QUANTIFYING EVAPOTRANSPIRATION THERMAL PERFORMANCE VEGETATED ROOF CLIMATIC DATA MODEL IMPACT IRRIGATION |
Issue Date: | 13-Apr-2021 | Publisher: | ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA | Citation: | He, Yang, Lin, Ervine Shengwei, Tan, Chun Liang, Tan, Puay Yok, Wong, Nyuk Hien (2021-04-13). Quantitative evaluation of plant evapotranspiration effect for green roof in tropical area: A case study in Singapore. ENERGY AND BUILDINGS 241. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2021.110973 | Abstract: | The efficacy of existing evapotranspiration (ET) models commonly used for hourly thermal performance simulation of green roof remains unclear, especially for the tropical climate. To address the issue, field experiment was conducted to quantify the ET rate of four plant species in Singapore. Results showed that the average daytime rate of ET ranged from 198.4 g m−2 h−1 to 320 g m−2 h−1, while the average nighttime rate of ET ranged from 18.7 g m−2 h−1 to 25.5 g m−2 h−1. The percentage of daytime ET accounting for solar radiation ranged from 51.4% to 62.7%. The hourly ET rate predicted by three types of physical models were compared to the measured ET rate. It was found that the water vapor diffusion model had the best prediction performance, while the energy balance model had the worst prediction performance. Considering the complexities of the water vapor diffusion model, fifteen artificial neural network (ANN) models using multi-layer perceptron regressor were developed and evaluated. It was found that the ANN models had a better average prediction performance compared to water vapor diffusion models. Conclusions drawn from this study could provide a reference for accurate modelling of thermal and hydrological performance of green roof in tropical area. | Source Title: | ENERGY AND BUILDINGS | URI: | https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/228115 | ISSN: | 03787788 18726178 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.enbuild.2021.110973 |
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