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"Roger" wrote in message k... The message from Andy Wade contains these words: The message from "IMM" contains these words: Well insulated houses can have the room temperature lowered without any discomfort. Far less heat is being extracted from your body due to the high insulation. A scientific breakthrough? No, but in fairness to IMM his first sentence is correct (provided the value of "lowered" is not excessive). The second sentence is also true, except that "far less" is something of an exaggeration. Good intelligent response by Andy. snip drivel by Roger |
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"Andrew Chesters" wrote in message ... A well insulated house will have fewer draughts (one would hope) so will feel more comfortable at lower temperatures. Not quite what IMM wrote, but some truth buried in there! A well insulated house can be like sieve. Air tightness and superinsulation don't always go together. When they do, the results are brilliant. |
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from "IMM" contains these words: Good intelligent response by Andy. snip drivel by Roger That's your argument demolished then Andy. Since dIMM agrees with you you must be wrong. :-) -- Roger |
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The message
from Andy Wade contains these words: I'm not convinced that the marginally greater radiation from warmer walls would have any significant effect (see final para for the reverse effect) but to the extent that it does it makes diMMs conjecture even less tenable. I'm having difficulty following your argument. I agree that the difference in surface temperature, at least in the steady state, is pretty small. If you compare two walls, one with a U-value of 0.4 W/(m^2.K) and the other with U = 2.2, assuming 21 deg. inside temp and -3 outside, and using the usual value of 0.06 m^2.K/W for the resistance of the internal boundary layer, the difference in the inside surface temperature works out at only 2.6 K, according to my back-of-envelope calculation. However that 2.6 K difference is about 15% of the temperature difference between the couch-potato-body and the wall, so it will have a fairly significant effect on the heat flux. With intermittent heating in the poorly insulated place the difference will tend to be larger, due to the lag introduced by the thermal mass of (for example) solid brick walls. I may be venturing into the unknown (or at least somewhere I haven't been for the best part of 40 years) but the difference between say 290 K and 287.6 K is just about significant at the 4th power but it pales into insignificance when the temperature difference is say 15 K. The lower the air temperature (at which the body feels comfortable) the greater the temperature difference between it and the warm body and hence the greater the heat loss. By "warm body" here I presume you mean the heat source. In "the greater the temperature difference between it and the warm body" does "it" refer to the air mass or the (human) body? If the latter, it's at a fairly well-regulated 37 deg. or so and the air temperature doesn't affect the heat flow very much from the radiation point if view. No. The warm body in question is the human body that dIMM maintains loses heat very much faster when the ambient temperature is raised to compensate for the discomfort caused by having a poorly insulated house. Have you considered the fact that in a poorly insulated room there is much more radiant energy about that in a well insulated room? Well, no, my argument was constructed on the principle of there being less. Why is there more? It does depend on the heating source of course. A good blazing fire can make you feel quite warm in a very cold room, so in some cases you may be right, but so what? - it doesn't alter the radiation to the walls argument. Well for a start a poorly heated room needs much more heat to keep it up to temperature than a well insulated room and if that heat is supplied by a radiator some 40% is probably radient heat. If supplied by a fire it will of course be a much higher percentage. Secondly the radiator (if that is the heat source) being considerably hotter is a much better radiator than the cool walls. If the walls are say at 16 C, the warm body at 39 C and the radiator at say 60 C I will leave you to work out what those proportions would mean in degrees K at the 4th power. -- Roger |
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Roger wrote:
A scientific breakthrough? Na, just the absence of wind chill since he will be gas tight apparently.... -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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"Roger" wrote in message k... The message from Andy Wade contains these words: I'm not convinced that the marginally greater radiation from warmer walls would have any significant effect (see final para for the reverse effect) but to the extent that it does it makes diMMs conjecture even less tenable. I'm having difficulty following your argument. I agree that the difference in surface temperature, at least in the steady state, is pretty small. If you compare two walls, one with a U-value of 0.4 W/(m^2.K) and the other with U = 2.2, assuming 21 deg. inside temp and -3 outside, and using the usual value of 0.06 m^2.K/W for the resistance of the internal boundary layer, the difference in the inside surface temperature works out at only 2.6 K, according to my back-of-envelope calculation. However that 2.6 K difference is about 15% of the temperature difference between the couch-potato-body and the wall, so it will have a fairly significant effect on the heat flux. With intermittent heating in the poorly insulated place the difference will tend to be larger, due to the lag introduced by the thermal mass of (for example) solid brick walls. I may be venturing into the unknown NO. you are totally in the dark snip stuff not worth reading |
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"Roger" wrote in message k... The message from "IMM" contains these words: Good intelligent response by Andy. snip drivel by Roger That's snip more drivel by Roger |
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Roger wrote:
I may be venturing into the unknown (or at least somewhere I haven't been for the best part of 40 years) but the difference between say 290 K and 287.6 K is just about significant at the 4th power but it pales into insignificance when the temperature difference is say 15 K. For small temperature differences (relative to the absolute temperature) you can forget the fourth-power law and assume that the net heat flow is proportional to the difference in temperature between the bodies. So a ~2.5 K change in 15 K difference makes about 15% difference in the heat loss from the warmer body. No. The warm body in question is the human body that dIMM maintains loses heat very much faster when the ambient temperature is raised to compensate for the discomfort caused by having a poorly insulated house. OK (penny drops) - I see what you were saying now. Yes that does work in the opposite direction to the radiation argument. I need to go away and think about this some more... Well for a start a poorly heated room needs much more heat to keep it up to temperature than a well insulated room and if that heat is supplied by a radiator some 40% is probably radient heat. If supplied by a fire it will of course be a much higher percentage. Yes, but the source will, in those cases, have a much smaller surface area than the walls. To work out the net heat flow to any point you'd need to integrate the radiant flux from all the surfaces 'visible' over the whole 4*pi of solid angle. This (AIUI) is what leads to the concept of mean radiant temperature. Secondly the radiator (if that is the heat source) being considerably hotter is a much better radiator than the cool walls. If the walls are say at 16 C, the warm body at 39 C and the radiator at say 60 C I will leave you to work out what those proportions would mean in degrees K at the 4th power. That's easy for plane facing surfaces, otherwise far more tricky: * 60 C -- 39 C is a net flux of 160 W/m^2 (assuming emissivities of 1) * 16 C -- 39 C is a net flux of -142 W/m^2. -- Andy |
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