KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS

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KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS

• COLLEGE OF
• ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
• Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
• THERMAL AND ECONOMIC
• PERFORMANCE OF
• INSULATION FOR SAUDI
• BUILDINGS
• By
• Dr. A. Al-Hammad

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INTRODUCTION
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OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
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Approach of the Study

• Extensive Review of
  Survey of Saudi
  Building Material
• Literature
  Costs as well as common wall
  or roof assemblies
• Simulation Studies
  Monitoring Studies
• Define Typical Saudi Villa
  Construct a Building Facility for
  Field Testing
• Use DOE Program to make Simulation runs
  Choose and construct 14 Wall Panels and 10
• for different Wall and Roof Assemblies with
  Roof Panels of most Saudi Common
• or without insulation materials
  Assemblies including Temperature
  and Heat
• Flow Sensors
• Install a PC computer to store, read, and
• show temperature and heat flows data Install a
  computerized data acquisition for generated from
  the test panels system for use with the test
  panels

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MONITORING TEST FACILITIES

• A - General layout of insulation test panel
  building
• SPARE
  ROOM
  
  
  
  ( NOT
  USED )
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  MATERIALS STORAGE ROOM
• 
  WORKING TABLES DATA
  ROOF PANELS ( ABOVE )
• 
  
  ACQUISITION
• 
  FRONT ROOM EQUIPMENT
  REAR ROOM
• ENTRY
• 
  
  
  WALL PANELS
  WALL PANELS

A / C
1 M
A / C
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MONITORING TEST FACILITIES

• B - Wall panels
• 1 - Location of the wall
  panels
• 2 - Cross -section of the
  wall panels
• 0.5750
• 0.6000
• 13 10
  9 6
  3 2 1
  
• 1.7500
• 14 12
  11 8
  7 4 3
• 0.3000
• 0.4500

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MONITORING TEST FACILITIES

• C - Roof panels
• 1 - Location of the roof panels
• 2 - Cross-section of the roof panels
  9 10
• 
  MTL
  CONC.
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  1
  2
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  3
  4
• North
• 
  6
  5
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  HOR.
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  8
• BUILDING KEY PLAN
  HOR.
• Appendix B shows the cross section of the roof
  panels.

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THE TEST ROOM AT KFUPM-ROOFS
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WALL PANELS OUTSIDE VIEWS
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THE TEST ROOM AT KFUPM-WALLS
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ENLARGED WALL PANELS-1
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ENLAGED WALL PANELLS-2
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ENLAGED WALL PANELS-3
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WALL PANELS INSIDE VIEWS
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WALL AND ROOF PANELS INSIDE VIEWS
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ROOF PANELS INSIDE VIEWS
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Data Acquisition Systems

• Temperature and heat flow sensors about 159
  from wall and roof panels
• Data Acquisition System
• Through an embedded program called
  DATAC, it can perform
• timing function --gt timing
  reading, interval between reading
• control data files
• call for specific channel access
• convert voltage values to
  temperature or heat flow values
• PC Computer and monitor make each
  15 minutes reading and
• record of data for all the sensors
  for the whole year
• Heat flow measurement for each
  wall or roof panel
• Measurement of temperatures
  gradient for each panel
• Heat flow sample Sample of the
  result Temperature sample

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DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS
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COMPUTER READING VIEWS
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WALL-1 CROSS SECTION
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ROOF-1 CROSS SECTION
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ROOF-2 CROSS SECTION
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SAMPLE OF HEAT FLOW ANALYSIS FOR WALL PANELS

• Month of July Net Heat Flow Comparison for Walls

K F U P M
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SAMPLE OF HEAT FLOW ANALYSIS FOR ROOF PANELS

• Month of July Net Heat Flow Comparison for Roofs

K F U P M
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SAMPLE OF TEMPERATURE ANALYSIS

• Wall 1 Temperature Profile at July 17, 1990

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SAMPLE OF TEMPERATURE ANALYSIS

• Wall 2 Temperature Profile at July 17, 1990

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SAMPLE OF TEMPERATURE ANALYSIS

• Roof 1 Temperature Profile at July 17, 1990

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SAMPLE OF TEMPERATURE ANALYSIS

• Roof 2 Temperature Profile at July 17, 1990

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Department of Architectural EngineeringCollege
of Environmental Design

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