Description

The project entitled “The nature, significance and control of solar-driven diffusion in wall systems” (ASHRAE 1235-TRP) was a project initiated and supervised by ASHRAE Technical Committee TC 4.4 “Building Caterials and Building Envelope Performance.”

Three institutions were involved in this project, namely the Building Envelope Laboratory of Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, the Building Physics Laboratory of the KULeuven, Belgium, and the Building Technology Center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (BTC/ORNL). Drs. Dominique Derome, now with EMPA Switzerland, Jan Carmeliet, now with ETHZÃrich and EMPA Switzerland, and Achilles Karagiozis of ORNL formed the team of researchers at the heart of this project.

This report is one of the deliverables this ASHRAE funded. The project is reported in several reports as listed below:

• Report 1 Review of previous work related to inwards moisture flow
• Report 2a Small-scale experimental and modeling investigation
• Report 2b Large-scale experimental investigation
• Report 2c Field testing investigation
• Report 3 Modeling and calibration
• Report 4 Parametric study
• Report 5 Summary of project work and design guidelines

This particular report, 1, presents a review of past work, mainly experimental investigations, that directly or indirectly provided information on inwards moisture flow in wall assemblies.

As is always the case, neither ASHRAE nor any of the other institutions named in this report is responsible for the contents or any use made of the information in this report.

Product Details

Published:

2009

Number of Pages:

582

File Size:

1 file , 54 MB

Product Code(s):

D-RP-1235-TRP