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The effect of insulation on daytime cooling for insulated and non-insulated building / Mohamad Amerul Akmal Kamarulzaman

In a tropical country like Malaysia, there is a dire need of installing air-conditioning in order to have a more comfortable ambience temperature. However, there are growing concerns about the increasing energy consumption in the world and Malaysia particularly. In order to achieve both comfortable...

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Main Author: Kamarulzaman, Mohamad Amerul Akmal
Format: Student Project
Language:English
Published: 2013
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Meteorology. Climatology. Including the earth's atmosphere
Atmospheric temperature
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spelling my.uitm.ir.450552022-11-11T07:33:11Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/45055/ The effect of insulation on daytime cooling for insulated and non-insulated building / Mohamad Amerul Akmal Kamarulzaman Kamarulzaman, Mohamad Amerul Akmal Meteorology. Climatology. Including the earth's atmosphere Atmospheric temperature In a tropical country like Malaysia, there is a dire need of installing air-conditioning in order to have a more comfortable ambience temperature. However, there are growing concerns about the increasing energy consumption in the world and Malaysia particularly. In order to achieve both comfortable lifestyle and energy conservation at the same time, mostly believed and held upon through studies and research done, the installation of insulation above the ceiling is one of the solution. Therefore this study is aiming to further complement the studies and research done, by evaluating the energy consumptions on non-insulated and insulated building during daytime cooling using field data, and is compared and backed with computer simulation data using Integrated Environmental Solution software (IES) and also to determine the relationship between energy consumption and outdoor temperature. The field study was carried out at energy efficiency test cell with dimensions are 4m width, 4m length and 3m height located in Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, measuring the energy consumption on cooling load in daytime cooling for noninsulated and insulated building in 7 days with 10 minutes interval. One of the test cells was equipped with insulation at ceiling and mineral wool insulation with the thickness of and 100mm for fiberglass insulation and was installed with a 950W split unit air conditioning system that setup the temperature at dry bulb temperature, 24°C. The results for both field and computer simulation data gave a similar pattern showed in this study, which is that insulation building will consume less energy, despite the difference in value in terms of the energy consumption between field and computer simulation. From the result, total daily energy consumption recorded was influenced by the outdoor temperature as the outdoor temperature increase, the energy consume by cooling load also increase. From this relationship, the best equation with higher correlation coefficient was generated and the value of correlation coefficient is showing the effectiveness of outdoor temperature on energy consumption. 2013 Student Project NonPeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/45055/1/45055.pdf The effect of insulation on daytime cooling for insulated and non-insulated building / Mohamad Amerul Akmal Kamarulzaman. (2013) [Student Project] (Unpublished)
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topic Meteorology. Climatology. Including the earth's atmosphere
Atmospheric temperature
spellingShingle Meteorology. Climatology. Including the earth's atmosphere
Atmospheric temperature
Kamarulzaman, Mohamad Amerul Akmal
The effect of insulation on daytime cooling for insulated and non-insulated building / Mohamad Amerul Akmal Kamarulzaman
description In a tropical country like Malaysia, there is a dire need of installing air-conditioning in order to have a more comfortable ambience temperature. However, there are growing concerns about the increasing energy consumption in the world and Malaysia particularly. In order to achieve both comfortable lifestyle and energy conservation at the same time, mostly believed and held upon through studies and research done, the installation of insulation above the ceiling is one of the solution. Therefore this study is aiming to further complement the studies and research done, by evaluating the energy consumptions on non-insulated and insulated building during daytime cooling using field data, and is compared and backed with computer simulation data using Integrated Environmental Solution software (IES) and also to determine the relationship between energy consumption and outdoor temperature. The field study was carried out at energy efficiency test cell with dimensions are 4m width, 4m length and 3m height located in Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, measuring the energy consumption on cooling load in daytime cooling for noninsulated and insulated building in 7 days with 10 minutes interval. One of the test cells was equipped with insulation at ceiling and mineral wool insulation with the thickness of and 100mm for fiberglass insulation and was installed with a 950W split unit air conditioning system that setup the temperature at dry bulb temperature, 24°C. The results for both field and computer simulation data gave a similar pattern showed in this study, which is that insulation building will consume less energy, despite the difference in value in terms of the energy consumption between field and computer simulation. From the result, total daily energy consumption recorded was influenced by the outdoor temperature as the outdoor temperature increase, the energy consume by cooling load also increase. From this relationship, the best equation with higher correlation coefficient was generated and the value of correlation coefficient is showing the effectiveness of outdoor temperature on energy consumption.
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author Kamarulzaman, Mohamad Amerul Akmal
author_facet Kamarulzaman, Mohamad Amerul Akmal
author_sort Kamarulzaman, Mohamad Amerul Akmal
title The effect of insulation on daytime cooling for insulated and non-insulated building / Mohamad Amerul Akmal Kamarulzaman
title_short The effect of insulation on daytime cooling for insulated and non-insulated building / Mohamad Amerul Akmal Kamarulzaman
title_full The effect of insulation on daytime cooling for insulated and non-insulated building / Mohamad Amerul Akmal Kamarulzaman
title_fullStr The effect of insulation on daytime cooling for insulated and non-insulated building / Mohamad Amerul Akmal Kamarulzaman
title_full_unstemmed The effect of insulation on daytime cooling for insulated and non-insulated building / Mohamad Amerul Akmal Kamarulzaman
title_sort effect of insulation on daytime cooling for insulated and non-insulated building / mohamad amerul akmal kamarulzaman
publishDate 2013
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/45055/1/45055.pdf
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