jailcd2016030: Experimental Research on Independent Environment Control in Museum

Abstract

The indoor thermal requirements in archaeology museum buildings mainly take into account the comfortof visitors and the preservation of the in situ relics. However, the environmental conditions for the thermacommfort of visitors are usually inconsistent with those for appropriate preservation of relics, and thespecialized needs of the latter are usually ignored due to financial and technological limitations. In this paperthe recommended environmental conditions for preserving relics were revisited, and the criterion of optimalconservation of in situ relics by establishing the equilibrium of heat and mass in the air-soil coupledenvironment according to the primitive soil environment parameters was presented. Based on these variousrequirements, an independent environmental control system concluding a split air conditioning system forvisitor comfort and a capillary radiant system for relic preservation was proposed. A laboratory roomconsisting of a funerary pit and the mentioned air conditioning systems for human comfort and relicpreservation were constructed to simulate a large exhibition hall of an archaeology museum. Experimentaresearch has been carried out to examine the feasibility and performance ofthe method. The results show thatboth of two systems could be operated independently with different working parameters and operationmodels, Additionally, the ditferent enyironmental needs of yisitors and relics were simultaneously satisfiedwith this energy-saving method.