THE EFFECT OF CIRCULATING FAN AND NATURAL VENTILATION ON THE THERMAL COMFORT PERFORMANCE IN A BUILDING IN SOUTHEAST SULAWESI
Abstract: The unbalance on the
supply and demand on the energy has an impact on the escalating energy price
and potentially impedes the development. One of the power demands comes from
the energy utilization in the building sector, in which the cooling system is
among them. The application of the air conditioning based on the refrigerator
system is obviouslyconsuming much energy in the building. Thus reducing the
role of this power consumed cooling system is so imperative. To apply the
circulating fan or to employ the natural ventilation are among the alternative
approaches to make a building cooler, without much consuming energy. The aim of
this study is to investigate the effect the circulating fan and the natural
ventilation, on the temperature and the humidity in a building in Southeast
Sulawesi, a region with its high daily solar radiation. It conducts an
experiment on a building model incorporated with the ventilation and the
circulating fan. The result shows that by incorporating these alternative
cooling devices, the temperatures in the building can be lower than that of a
closed building (no fan and no ventilation). The magnitude in the decreasing on
the temperature for the building with circulating fan is higher than that of
the ventilation. Another result on the investigation shows that the relative
humidity in the building with the circulating fan or the ventilation is relatively
higher than that of the closed building.
Penulis: Aditya Rachman, Aspin,
Siti Belinda
Kode Jurnal: jptmesindd140582