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CHAPTER IS
1949. Guide:
sunlit; Conventional , shading devices include awnings, shades, and screens of various types.
Experimental work conducted at the A.S.H.V.E. Research Labora tory14 and other research16 to determine the effectiveness of various types of window shades have been used as the basis for the recommended ratios in column 3 of Table 23. A study of absorptivity of the shade to solar, radiation and heat transfer from the shade to the outdoors and indoors was. used to determine these ratios.
There are a number of variables affecting these ratios such as color, fit, solar altitude, and angle of incidence of the solar radiation. These values, therefore, must be considered as approximate, only, and will have to be used with considerable judgment! An inside shade is effective to the ex tent of its reflectivity, since the portion of the solar radiation directly transmitted by the glass that is absorbed by the shade is transferred by
Table 23. Effect of Shading upon Instantaneous Solab Heat Gain Thbough Single Thickness of Common Window Glass
Ttpe of Shading
Canvas Awning Inside Roller Shade, Fully Drawn Inside Roller Shade, Fully Drawn* Inside Roller Shade, Fully Drawn
Inside Roller Shade, Half Drawn Inside Roller Shade, Half Drawn Inside Roller Shade, Half Drawn Inside Venetian Blind, Slats set at 45 deg"
Inside Venetian Blind, Slats set at 45 degj* Inside Venetian Blind, Slats set at 45 deg". Inside Venetian Blind, Slate set at 45 deg" Outside Venetian Blind, Slats set at 45 deg"
Outside Venetian Blind, Slats set at 45 deg, extended as an awning Outside Shading Screen", solar altitude 0-20 deg Outside Shading Screen", solar altitude 20-40 deg Outside Shading Screen", solar altitude, above 40 deg
Finish on Side Exposed to Son
Fraction of Gain Through Un
shaded Window
Dark
White Medium color Dark color
0.25-0.35 0.45 0.63 0.80
White ' Medium color
Dark color White
0.72 .-
0.81 0.90 0.62
Medium
Aluminum Dark colorjCream
0.74 0.70 0.86
0.30
Any coIot
Dark color Dark color Dark color
0.40 0.75-0.43 0.43-0.22 0.22
* Roller shades are assumed to be opaque. Some white shades may transmit considerable solar radia tion. For white translucent shades fuuy drawn use 0.55 and for half drawn use 0.77.
** Venetian Blinds are fully drawn and cover window. It is assumed that the occupant will adjust slats . to prevent direct rays from passing between slats.
Commercial shade with wide slats.
d Metal slats 0.05 inches wide spaced 0.QC3 inches apart and set at 17 degree angle with horizontal. At solar altitudes below 38 deg some direct solar rays are allowed to pass between slate, and this'amount'be comes progressively greater at low solar altitudes.
convection to the room air and by radiation'-to the solid surfaces of .the room.
Instantaneous Heat Gains vs. Instantaneous Cooling Loads
The difference between instantaneous heat gain and instantaneous cool ing load has been mentioned previously; its practical importance is suffi cient to warrant further consideration.
Fig. 6 offers.a simplified schematic illustration showing how the radia tive part of the instantaneous heat gain. is: first absorbed by solid objects and is not encountered by the conditioning equipment as acoolingload until some later time when it finally appears in the air-stream entering the equipment. While it is true that some lag also is inherent in convective heat transfer and the time required to change the air in the conditioned space/this is usually of the order of afew minutes to perhaps half an hour. Heat'Storage in the interior furnishings and structure-increases: according
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to the proportion of the instantaneous heat gain which is in the form of radiation, and also as the thermal capacitance of the objects and materials
involved is increased.
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Constituents of the total instantaneous heat gain which have appreciable
radiation components include those due to: glass areas, exposed walls and
roofs, lighting, appliances, and people.
No comprehensive data are presently available for use in design load estimates to evaluate the interior load-lag effect, but several investiga-,
tors7-16, have made a study of the problem and have presented much useful, data. Tables 14, 15 and 18 are all based on instantaneous rates of heat
transfer. Hence, practical judgment and experience offer the only basis of procedure. Until the needed data become available, it is recommended that the non-continuous load be averaged over two or three hours during
the time of maximum load, when determining the total instantaneous cooling load where a large portion of the heat gain is radiant. This sug-. gestion applies only to conditions near the time of maximum heat gain,,
as the heat stored within the structure would necessarily appear in the cool-; ing load eventually, but if it appears at a time when the gain from outside;
Fig. 6. Origin of the Difference Between the Magnitudes of the Instantaneous Heat Gain and Instantaneous Cooling Load .
The radiation absorbed by the interior furnishings and structure reaches the conditioning equipment after a considerable delay in time.
is relatively low the equipment will be able to maintain satisfactory condi
tions within the ranga of maximum capacity.
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LOAD FROM INTERIOR PARTITIONS, CEILINGS, AND FLOORS i
Whenever a conditioned space is adjacent to another space in which a different temperature prevails, the transfer of heat through the, separating structural section must be considered. Calculations are made according to the relation
5= f7iAi(q> -- ii):Btu per hour.
(12).
where Vi = Coefficient of over-all heat transfer between the adjacent and the condi-. tioned space, Btu per (hour) (square foot) (Fahrenheit degree).
A i = Area of separating section concerned, square feet.
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tb = Air temperature in adjacent ipace, Fahrenheit degrees,
fi = Air temperature in conditioned space, Fahrenheit degrees. . . ; .
.. Magnitudes of Ui may-be obtained from Chapter. 6. The temperature fi may have any value over a consiierable range, according to conditions in the adjacent space. The temperature in a kitchen.or boiler room may be as much as 15 to 50 deg above the(outdoor air temperature. It is recom mended that actual temperatures bi measured in adjoining spaces wherever practicable. WTiere nothing is knswn except that the adjacent .space, is of conventional construction and contains no heat sources, it is recommended that the difference (fb -- U) be tvken as the difference between thd outi