Use of radiometer to reform and repair an old living house to passive solar one
- Ibaraki Univ., Hitachi, Ibaraki (Japan). Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
- Nikon Denk Sanei LTD, Kodaira, Tokyo (Japan)
Japanese houses consist mainly of wooden elements under high-temperature and moist condition. To modify the hot and humid environment of the living room of one house, a conventional house was revamped and partially repaired. Especially for the winter season, a diagnostic thermographic test was used to detect deteriorated and leaking parts of interior and exterior walls. Macroscopic deteriorated parts were checked again in detail. The deteriorated element was replaced with a new one. During the reconstruction process, a new solar heat and air conditioning system using a silica-gel adsorber and underground water was installed to cool and warm up the living room. Thermography tests of this revamped house shows that room temperature is always constant and comfortable to human beings, especially in the winter. Temperature and heat flow distribution of flowing air in the living room was measured using thermal net and wire methods. Leaking thermal streak flow of the gap was locally visualized by the infrared radiometer and high-sensitive video camera. It was verified that the IR thermography is a useful measuring instrument to check thermal defects of the homes.
- OSTI ID:
- 220697
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-940449-; ISBN 0-8194-1549-9; TRN: IM9620%%91
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers conference on intelligent information systems, Orlando, FL (United States), 4-8 Apr 1994; Other Information: PBD: 1994; Related Information: Is Part Of Thermosense 16: An international conference on thermal sensing and imaging diagnostic applications; Snell, J.R. Jr. [ed.]; PB: 330 p.; Proceedings/SPIE, Volume 2245
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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