Thermal study in a villa located in the city of Guayaquil

Abstract

The construction sector is one of the sectors that has the greatest impact on the country's economy the present work seeks to determine in a quantitative exploratory way the most influential parameters in the thermal behavior of a house located in a very hot humid climate, for this in the work a study of heat flow in the walls, floor and ceiling of a housing to try to reduce the energy consumption of air conditioning and advertise them as eco-efficient in the city of Guayaquil - Ecuador, using common construction materials of the houses, according to the latest INEC census, these materials are: concrete block 15 cm thick for walls, 15 cm thick lightened concrete on the ceiling and 20 cm heavy concrete on the floor; furthermore, 20% of the wall surfaces are glazed with 6 mm thick single glass windows. For this, the heat gains from walls and ceilings will be evaluated at noon, three hours before and after noon, for a typical day due to the effect of sensible heat. Through the application of numerical methods and with the assistance of the octave free software, it is determined that the color gain depends on the orientation of the house with respect to the sun and the largest wall area