Investigation of emission release based on the energy consumption of buildings by the aid of Taguchi method

In this study, the electrical energy consumption of an apartment building was calculated depending on the different design parameters. The electrical energy consumption was found according to the population information of the selected cities. In the calculations, firstly, the application of different insulation materials secondly, discrete; the state of being a building, a tree-lined building, and an adjacent building, and thirdly; different glazing types have been taken into account. Using the Taguchi method, experimental designs are conducted for each representative city. Then, the most suitable building design parameters were determined for each province according to the signal-to-noise (S/N) ratios. In the study, pollutant emissions such as CO2, SO2, NOx and PM released to the atmosphere were investigated. It has been observed that there is a 50% reduction in energy consumption and emissions based on the most suitable building design parameter determined by the Taguchi method.