Effective R-value approach to comprehend the essence of integrated opaque passive substrate properties

Zingre, Kishor T., Kiran Kumar, D.E.V.S., Pun Wan, Man and Chao, Christopher Y. H. (2021) Effective R-value approach to comprehend the essence of integrated opaque passive substrate properties. Journal of Building Engineering, 44. p. 102865. ISSN 2352-7102

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2021.102865

Abstract

The concept of ‘effective’ thermal resistance could facilitate in-depth understanding of the impact of passive substrate properties such as surface radiative and thermo-physical (which are not directly measurable using instrumentations in terms of R-value). A simple to-use and concise single performance factor has been formulated in this study to comprehend the effective thermal resistance provided by the enhanced surface radiative and thermo-physical properties of passive envelope materials. The derived expression is validated against measurements in real residential apartments located in Singapore. The derived effective thermal resistance expression is function of solar radiative properties, thermo-physical properties and weather parameters, and hence contains much more information than the traditionally estimated R-value. The effective thermal resistance is found to be dynamic in behaviour i.e., thermal resistance (or heat flow character) of the envelope material varies with transient weather conditions. Increasing roof surface radiative properties i.e., solar reflectance (from 0.1 to 0.8) alone has advantages during both daytime and nighttime with daily integrated-heat gain reduction by 60-68%. Whereas increasing the other thermo-physical properties of the envelope i.e., adding insulation or thermal mass (with a layer of phase change material-modified skim coat) has advantage only during daytime, but penalty during nighttime for the hot climates. The effect of increasing the solar reflectance by 0.7 for an insulated gray aluminum metal roof (with 20-mm polystyrene) is almost equivalent to effectively further adding 40-mm thick polystyrene. The application of proposed approach has been demonstrated by investigating the effect of passive envelope properties for different roof assemblies under four different climates. Using this approach, the accuracy of estimation of heat flux through roof, an indicator of the roof thermal efficiency, which was found to have improved by up to 78% against commonly found any steady-state method of heat flux estimation.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Effective R-value, passive envelope efficiency, heat transfer modelling, radiative properties, cool materials
Subjects: K200 Building
K900 Others in Architecture, Building and Planning
Department: Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Architecture and Built Environment
Depositing User: John Coen
Date Deposited: 17 Jun 2021 07:19
Last Modified: 13 Jun 2022 03:31
URI: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/46464

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