Field research on the rural house thermal environment in southwest region of Shandong province

Abstract

In this present study, the indoor thermal environment of current rural house located in the southwest region of Shandong Province was tested and analyzed; the measured parameters include air temperature and relative humidity. The results show that the indoor air environment temperatures of all rural houses are below 2.6 °C, which are far away from the comfortable temperature. Meanwhile, their absolute humidity is relatively low. The inner wall surface temperature varies in the range from 0.4-2.0 °C. Accordingly, the cold radiations of west and north surface walls are much severe. The analysis and results in this paper provide useful technical support for sustainable development of agricultural house and the new rural construction. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014.