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Abstract

As energy consumption related to building heating and cooling is on the rise, there has been an increasing push to address this problem. One approach has been to attach air caps to the outer surface of a building to improve its thermal performance, and various studies have been conducted on this method. However, conventional air caps are difficult to attach, and because the air caps are attached to the front of the windows, there is a problem of interfering with the view. Therefore, this study proposes an air cap attachment module that applies the blind principle, and aims to build basic data on air caps to improve window performance. The conclusion is as follows. 1) As proposed in this study, the air caps are attached by making holes in the blind blade plates, and the condition of the air cap application of the window can be easily changed by opening and closing the blind. 2) In this study, a dedicated frame was proposed for the air cap attachment module, and in particular, the dedicated frame for attaching air caps is treated with insulation tape to improve the airtightness and thermal performance when it is combined with the window frame. This study is valid in that it presents problems and suggests solutions by analyzing previous studies which improve thermal performance by attaching air caps to windows, but its lack of quantitative performance verification is a limitation, which should be an area for future research.