Nowadays most people tend to spend a major part of their lives indoors; therefore, the importance of withholding a good internal environment in our buildings is essential. What follows, the thermal indoor climate is strongly influencing the quality and comfort of life in residential areas. This essay will focus on thermal indoor climate situation in a student residence. Based on calculations, measurements and simulations from two different student apartments as well as data collected through a survey, this work will discuss whether the indoor climate complies with the requirements and standards for student housing and what improvement options are available. The survey showed dissatisfaction with the indoor temperature during summer and wintertime. Furthermore, the climate simulation demonstrated the increase in temperature during the summertime, which resulted in a greater dissatisfaction (PPD). Additionally, the calculations made to compare with the climate simulation have also shown that the apartments are getting too hot during summer. IDA ICE logged the relative humidity over a longer period of 1 year, resulting in a range between 5.8% -77.8%. Own measurements such as temperatures, relative humidity, carbon dioxide and exhaust airflows have been set against standards and requirements from authorities and deficiencies of the thermal indoor climate have been mapped. The apartments meet the standard of thermal indoor climate for student housing with one exception -the carbon dioxide content exceeds 1000 ppm in the apartment with the presence of two people. The exhaust airflow in both apartments was lower in our own measurements in comparison to what they were at the OVK protocol from 2014. The exhaust airflow in one apartment had a flow rate of 10 l / s higher than the dimensional flow rate, which indicates imbalance in the system. According to IDA ICE, too high and too low humidity was observed. This may indicate that the apartments do not have a satisfactory sun shading, which plays a significant role in the indoor climate. Using sun shading on all windows could reduce the temperature increase from solar radiation by 50% and the maximum operating temperature could be lowered by 4 degrees in IDA ICE. Using awnings as the sun shading solutions would also lower PPD's high peaks to 10%.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:mdh-38421 |
| Date | January 2018 |
| Creators | Hellberg, Philip, Wennberg, Linda |
| Publisher | Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för ekonomi, samhälle och teknik, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för ekonomi, samhälle och teknik |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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