Abstract:
There are many previous studies in the past on the factors effecting heat transfer through building roof system such as the effect of roof materials, roof angles, roof shapes, ventilation rate through attic space, and building direction, etc. Those results could be applied to the design of building roof system for energy saving; however, it has not been any particular study on how the roof angle affects the heat transfer through building roof system.The purpose of this thesis is to study the mechanism of heat transfer through building roof system emphasizing on the effect of roof angle when emissivity is also a function of angle. Heat Balance Method, which is the method for calculating heat transmission load, was applied to calculate heat transfer through building roof system. Computer program to analyze the effect of roof angle was created to calculate the summation of heat transfer for each hour all year round for two types of roof system, i.e., the gable roof and the hip roof system. For each roof system, the ventilation rate was varied from 0 to 100 ACH, building orientation was also vary in two directions, the insulation thickness was varied from 0 to 5 inches, and the installation position of insulation was also varied for two locations, i.e., above the ceiling or beneath the roof tile.Results from the study show that as the roof angle increases, the heat transfer through building roof system decreases from about 3 to 7%, i.e., at 10 degree of roof angle the heat transfer decreases 3% and at 40 degree of roof angle the heat transfer decreases 7%. Moreover, the results also indicated that the emissivity value used in the calculation does not need to be a function of angle. This is because the results from the calculation using the angle-dependent and angle-independent emissivity differ only very slightly.