SURVEYS FOR GLASS-COVERED SPACES ATTACHED TO DETACHED HOUSES IN HOKKAIDO : Thermal advantage on detached houses built with sunrooms in cold and fogy regions(Environmental Engineering)

Effects of Photovoltaic System Introduction in Detached Houses with All-Electrified Residential Equipment in Japan

In this paper, in order to investigate the effects of photovoltaic system introduction to detached houses in Japan, two kinds of works were done. Firstly, the hourly generation amount of a 4.2kW photovoltaic system were simulated in 46 cities to investigate the potential of the system in different regions in Japan using a simulation model of photovoltaic system. Secondly, based on the simulated...

The Influence of the Concealed Pollution Sources Upon the Indoor Air Quality in Detached Houses

© 2012 Hayashi et al., licensee InTech. This is an open access chapter distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The Influence of the Concealed Pollution Sources Upon the Indoor Air Quality in Deta...

Teacher’s Guide Diatoms: Life in Glass Houses

Diatomite at Lompoc, California. Johns-Manville Corporation (1964) mines some of the large diatomite deposits laid down in Santa Barbara County in the middle to upper Miocene (5-25 million y.a). Many of the current coastal regions, including those now occupied by Los Angeles and San Francisco, were then under the sea. The Lompoc area was probably an archipelago or series of shallow bays and bet...

People who live in glass houses

Study on the Effects of Evaporation and Condensation on the Underfloor Space of Japanese Detached Houses Using CFD Analysis

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of evaporation and condensation on the underfloor space of Japanese detached houses. In this underfloor space, natural ventilation is applied. A typical Japanese wooden detached house is raised 0.3–0.5 m over an underfloor space made of concrete. The bottom of the underfloor space is usually paved with concrete, and the ceiling whi...