Awolola, O.O and Olagoke, S.A. and Balogun, M.O. (2010) THE EFFECT OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAYOUT ON DEGREE-DAYS. In: Nigerian Society of Engineers, National Engineering Conference, 6-10 December 2010, International Conference Centre, Abuja, FCT.
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Degree-day is an energy term and is defined as one-sided sum of positive differences between a certain base temperature and the ambient temperature of the environment. This can either be heating or cooling degree-days. The heating degree days are used as a basis for heating space design while the cooling degree-days as a basis for air conditioning design. This paper looks at the effect of environmental layout of a ‘system’ such as a building will have on the degree-days and this in effect will affect the energy required to heat or cool a space. The data used are collected in a farm house at Ilorin where the house is surrounded by ‘tick’ trees. The data analysed and compared with existing inference, reflects that a good and simple layout rather than aesthetic layout will be conducive even at the period of harsh climatic condition. Base temperatures of 18oC for cooling degree- day calculation for a particular day gives 4.64 and 4.4 for outside fence and inside fence respectively implying that the energy required is less when we have the trees around providing shades as cooling effect, hence a good way to alleviate climatic problems if well layout.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Subjects: | T Technology > T Technology (General) T Technology > TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering T Technology > TG Bridge engineering T Technology > TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Engineering, Science and Mathematics > School of Engineering Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Joy Oluwabukola Olayiwola |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Dec 2022 13:55 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Dec 2022 13:55 |
| URI: | http://eprints.federalpolyilaro.edu.ng/id/eprint/2051 |
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