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Green Building Bible, fourth edition (both books)
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      CommentAuthordjh
    • CommentTimeJan 14th 2013
     
    This is a dewpoint calculator:

    http://www.decatur.de/javascript/dew/index.html

    Is that what you are you looking for?
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      CommentAuthorSteamyTea
    • CommentTimeJan 14th 2013
     
    Or do it yourself

    Dew Point Temperature is about equal to Temperature - ((100-Relative Humidity)/5)

    Or the other way around

    Relative Humidity is about equal to 100 - 5(Temperature - Dew Point Temperature)
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    ...I was thinking about something a bit more proprietary that would relate it to a U-value / construction build up, but as the specific case in question is more about a specific condensation (we think) issue due to a defect I could just spread sheet it a plot temperature vs RH...?

    J
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      CommentAuthorSteamyTea
    • CommentTimeJan 14th 2013
     
    There was a bit in this weeks comic about the relationship between temperature, heat capacity, specific heat capacity, volumetric heat capacity and thermal conductivity, was related to drying but the same maths. It is still on the shelves.

    http://www.newscientist.com/
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    The one I've been using is http://www.vesma.com/tutorial/uvalue01/uvalue01.htm which is mainly a U-value calculator but shows where there's a danger of condensation in a stack of materials.

    I've no idea how accurate it is though!
    • CommentAuthorEd Davies
    • CommentTimeJan 14th 2013
     
    Posted By: James Norton...I could just spread sheet it a plot temperature vs RH...?

    Yes, you could do that if you know the relevant properties of the materials. You'd need the thickness, thermal conductivity (often called lambda or k in W/(m·K)) and vapour permeability (in GN·s/(kg·m), sometimes written as the equivalent MN·s/(g·m)) for layers with noticeable thickness and the vapour permeance (in GN·s/kg or MN·s/g) for layers of negligible thickness like membranes.

    As you say you could plot the temperature profile. However, rather than deal directly with RH you'd need to work out how the vapour pressure is distributed across the wall by finding the vapour pressures on the inside and outside and the permeance of each layer then working out the vapour pressure drop across each in a manner analogous to the way you'd work out the temperature profile knowing the thermal resistance of each layer.

    Knowing the temperature and vapour pressure at each interface you would then work out the RH and so get an idea of the condensation risk.
    • CommentAuthorEd Davies
    • CommentTimeJan 15th 2013
     
    Posted By: Mevapour permeability (in GN·s/(kg·m) ... and the vapour permeance (in GN·s/kg

    Oops, those are the units for vapour resistivity and vapour resistance, not permeability/permeance. They're one over each other.
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