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Applied Thermal Engineering 25 (2005) 61–71www.elsevier.com/locate/apthermeng
Study of heat and moisture migration propertiesin porous building materials
Z.Q. Chen *, M.H. Shi
Department of Power Engineering, Southeast University, No. 2 Si Pai Lou, Nanjing 210096, Jiangsu Province, PR China
Received 25 December 2003; accepted 6 May 2004
Available online 13 August 2004
Abstract
Based on the non-equilibrium thermodynamic theory, the thermal driving forces and the fluxes in heat
and moisture migration process for unsaturated porous building materials are analyzed. The mechanisms of
heat and moisture migration in unsaturated porous building materials are discussed and the pheno-
menological equations to describe the immigrating process in unsaturated porous building materials areestablished. By means of the diffusion law and the equation of state for ideal gas, the expressions of
coefficients in the phenomenological equations are deduced. The effects of temperature, water content or
partial vapour pressure on the phenomenological coefficients are also discussed.
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Keywords: Heat and moisture migration; Phenomenological coefficients; Non-equilibrium thermodynamics; Porous
building materials
1. Introduction
Problems involving heat and moisture migration in porous building materials arise in a numberof engineering interests, such as wall drying, the solar house designing, cooling load calculating ofair conditioning, etc. Affected by porous structure, temperature gradients, moisture gradients andenvironmental characteristic, heat and moisture transport in the porous building materials is quitecomplex. Richards [1] firstly established the equation of unsaturated flow in porous materials,which is on the basis of Darcy’s law and the principle of continuous motion. Philip and Vries [2]
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doi:10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2004.05.001
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developed a moisture migration model at inhomogeneous temperature profiles, in which moisturemigration affected by temperature gradient was taken over. In the process of heat and moisturemigration, the gradients of temperature, moisture and pressure, the main driving forces of heatand moisture migration in unsaturated porous media, influence one another [3]. Due to thecomplicated structure of porous building materials, it is difficult to consider micro-phenomena. Inorder to describe the continuity of porosity and other parameters in unsaturated porous mediaapproximately, unsaturated models were developed by using the method of representative ele-mentary volume [4,5]. Because of water evaporation, phase-change is taking place in unsaturatedporous materials. To decide the transport properties, migration coefficients vs. temperature andvolume moisture content were studied by Shah et al. [6]. The steady-flux measurements ofmoisture diffusivity in unsaturated porous media were studied by Richards [7]. In a paper seriesWilson, Hall and coworkers [8–11] studied the water movement in porous building materials byuse of unsaturated flow theory and obtained some experimental verifications of capillaryabsorption of water for different building materials and structures. The different moisturetransport mechanisms and some interfacial phenomena in porous materials were investigated byFreitas et al. [12] using the theory of Luikov [3] and Philip and Vries [2]. Based on a one-dimensional steady model, the dynamic and diffusive behavior of a three-layer building envelopeelement was investigated by Taylor et al. [13]. More recently, real-time thermal and moistureparameters in buildings were studied theoretically and experimentally [14,15]. All these previousworks are very instructive, but the migration phenomenological coefficients are still not to bedecided owing to the complexity of heat and moisture migration processes in porous materials.This paper will present a method to predict the phenomenological coefficients with considerationof heat and moisture migration mechanisms, in which a non-equilibrium approach is employed toexplain combined heat transfer and water, including liquid and vapour, movement.
2. Linear phenomenological equations of heat and moisture migration
Heat and moisture migration in porous building materials is the process affected by theinteractions of temperature field, moisture field, and partial vapour pressure field. Generally, thecoupled heat and moisture migration can be described in linear non-equilibrium thermodynamictheory [16]. According to the Curie’s principle, the thermal driving forces and the fluxes in heatand mass transfer process are coupled. So the linear phenomenological equations of heat andmoisture migrations in porous building materials can be described as
~Jq ¼ � Lqq
T 2rT � LqL
Trh � Lqv
TrPV ð1Þ
~JL ¼ � LLq
T 2rT � LLL
Trh þ qLK~g ð2Þ
~JV ¼ � LVq
T 2rT � LVV
TrPV ð3Þ
where,~Jq,~JL and~JV are heat flux, liquid mass flux and vapour mass flux, respectively. T , h and PVare the temperature, water content and partial vapour pressure. qL and K are liquid water density
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and unsaturated hydraulic conductivity. We assume, k ¼ LqqT 2 , apparent thermal conductivity;
k1P ¼ LqV
T , migration coefficient; kP ¼ LVVT , infiltration coefficient; k11
P ¼ LVqT 2 , thermal infiltration
coefficient; km ¼ LLLT , mass diffusivity; k1
m ¼ LqLT , mass thermal diffusivity; k11
m ¼ LLqT 2 , thermomass
diffusivity.So, Eqs. (1)–(3) can be written as
~Jq ¼ �krT � k1mrh � k1
PrPV ð4Þ
~JL ¼ �k11m rT � kmrh þ qLK~g ð5Þ
~JV ¼ �k11P rT � kPrPV ð6Þ
3. Analysis of thermodynamics flux
In order to describe the linear phenomenological coefficients, the mechanisms of heat, moisturemigration and thermodynamic flux are analyzed below.
3.1. Mechanism of heat migration
Heat transfer in unsaturated building materials under temperature gradient covers heat con-duction, infiltration convection heat transfer, radiation heat transfer and phase-change heattransfer. They are interactive. For there is no large temperature difference in unsaturated buildingmaterials, so radiation heat transfer is ignored.
According to the analysis above, the heat flux is consisted of heat conduction heat flux ~Jqd
and convection heat flux ~Jqc caused by infiltration fluid flow.
~Jq ¼~Jqd þ~Jqc ¼ �kerT þ ð~JLhL þ~JVhV þ~J ahaÞ ð7Þ
3.2. Mechanism of moisture migration
Moisture migration in unsaturated porous building materials includes diffusive migration andinfiltration fluid flow. The diffusive migration has the forms of molecular diffusion, Knudsendiffusion and surface diffusion.
3.2.1. Liquid water mass fluxLiquid flux in porous building materials consists of infiltration flow and surface diffusion
caused by the gradients of moisture and temperature. According to Darcy law [17], the infiltrationliquid flow ~JLC can be described as
~JLC ¼ �qLðDhLrh þ DTLrT � K~gÞ ð8Þ
where, DhL ¼ K o/oh
�� ��, DTL ¼ K o/oT
�� ��, / is hydraulic potential.In non-isothermal conditions, surface diffusion fluid flow ~JLD caused by adsorption and
desorption is [18]
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~JLD ¼ �qLDTDrT ð9Þ
where, DTD ¼ CqLTis the coefficient of adsorption-diffusion.
So, the liquid flux ~JL is
~JL ¼~JLC þ~JLD ¼ �qL½DhLrh þ ðDTL þ DTDÞrT � K~g� ð10Þ
3.2.2. Vapour fluxThe total vapour flux includes the vapour convection flux, general molecular diffusion and
Knudsen diffusion flux under the gradients of temperature and vapour partial pressure. Assumingthat the vapour convection velocity is ~V , so vapour flux ~JV is [19]
~JV ¼ qV~V � DerqV ð11Þ
where, De and qV are effective diffusion coefficient and vapour density, respectively.
3.2.3. Air fluxThe total air flux also includes air convection flux and diffusion flux. For the convection
velocity of air is the same as that of vapour [19], so the air flux is
~J a ¼ qa~V � Derqa ð12Þ
where, qV is air density.
4. Phenomenological coefficients
According to the analysis of thermodynamic flux and ideal gas state equation, the pheno-menological coefficients are deduced below.
4.1. Liquid water
The phenomenological coefficients include mass diffusivity km and thermomass diffusivity k11m .
Comparing Eqs. (5) and (10), they are respectively described as
km ¼ qLDhL ¼ qLKo/oh
�������� ð13Þ
k11m ¼ qLðDTL þ DTDÞ ¼ qL K
o/oT
��������
�þ DTD
�ð14Þ
4.2. Vapour
In the unsaturated porous building materials, comparing to vapour flux, air flux is very small[19], so the net transfer of air is zero
~J a ¼~0 ð15Þ
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Using Eq. (15) to (12) the vapour convection velocity ~V is described as
~V ¼ Derqa=qa ð16Þ
Combined Eqs. (11) and (16), the vapour flux is
~JV ¼ DeqV
rqa
qa
��rqV
qV
�ð17Þ
Assuming that the air and vapour obey the ideal gas law in the unsaturated porous buildingmaterials, therefore the vapour flux is described as [19]
~JV ¼ � DePRVT ðP � PVÞ
rPV ð18Þ
Therefore, by using Eqs. (12) and (18), the phenomenological coefficients of vapour flux is de-scribed as
kP ¼ DePRVT ðP � PVÞ
ð19Þ
k11P ¼ 0 ð20Þ
where, De is the effective diffusion coefficient, RV is general gas constant, P and PV are total gaspressure and partial vapour pressure, respectively.
4.3. Heat
The enthalpies of liquid water, vapour and air in unsaturated porous building materials are
hL ¼ CLT ð21Þ
hV ¼ CPVT þ HC ð22Þ
ha ¼ CPaT ð23Þ
Combining Eq. (7) and Eqs. (21)–(23) the heat flux is
~Jq ¼ �ðke þ k11m CLT ÞrT � kmCLTrh � kPðHC þ CPVT ÞrPV þ qLCLTK~g ð24Þ
Compared Eqs. (4) and (24), the phenomenological coefficients of heat flux––apparent thermalconductivity k, migration coefficient k1
P and mass thermal diffusivity k1m are
k ¼ ke þ k11m CLT ð25Þ
k1P ¼ kPðCPVT þ HCÞ ð26Þ
k1m ¼ kmCLT ð27Þ
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5. Effects of temperature and moisture on the phenomenological coefficients
According to the analysis above, the phenomenological coefficients of heat and moisturemigrations are functions of temperature and moisture or partial vapour pressure. For sandybuilding block, the effects of temperature and moisture on the phenomenological coefficients areanalyzed below.
5.1. Thermodynamic and thermal physical parameters
5.1.1. Hydraulic potential / and conductivity KThe hydraulic potential and conductivity are functions of temperature and water content. They
can be described by Eq. (28) [20] and Eq. (29) respectively [23].
/ ¼ /S
he
� ��4
expð�cT Þ ð28Þ
K ¼ KS
/S
/
� �2:75
ð29Þ
where, e, /S, KS and c are porosity, saturated hydraulic potential, saturated hydraulic conductivityand surface extended coefficient, respectively. For sandy block with mean pore diameter of 0.3mm, e, /S, KS and c are 0.39, )0.0315 m, 1.76· 10�5 m/s and 2.189· 10�3 C�1 [20].
5.1.2. Partial vapour pressure PVIn the unsaturated porous building materials, vapour partial pressure obeys the following
thermodynamic relation [19]:
PV ¼ PS expg/RVT
� �ð30Þ
where, PS is the saturated vapour partial pressure and g is the acceleration to gravity.
5.1.3. Effective thermal conductivity ke
The effective thermal conductivity in unsaturated porous building materials can be describedapproximately as
ke ¼ kSð1� eÞ þ kLh þ kgðe � hÞ ð31Þ
where, kS, kL and kg are the thermal conductivity of solid, liquid and gas (vapour and air),respectively.
5.1.4. Effective diffusion coefficient De
The effective diffusion is the combination of general modular diffusion and Knudsen diffusion.So, its coefficient is
De ¼DatmDKn
Datm þ DKn
ð32Þ
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General modular diffusion coefficient [21]
Datm ¼ 4:942 10�4eT 1:5=ðPf0Þ ð33Þ
Knudsen diffusion coefficient [22]
DKn ¼8e2
3f0Sg
2RVTpMV
� �0:5
ð34Þ
where s, S and M are tortuosity factor, specific area for BET and molecular weight of watervapour. For sandy block with mean particle diameter of 0.3 cm, the coefficient of adsorption-diffusion is very small and it can be neglected.
5.2. Effects of temperature and moisture on phenomenological coefficients
For sandy block with mean particle diameter of 0.3 mm and porosity of 0.39, the effectivecurves of temperature and moisture on phenomenological coefficients––apparent thermal con-ductivity k, mass thermal diffusivity k1
m, mass diffusivity km and thermomass diffusivity k11m are
showed in Figs. 1–4 respectively. As shown, the phenomenological coefficients increase with theincreasing of temperature and water content. But the mass thermal diffusivity k1
m, mass diffusivitykm and thermomass diffusivity k11
m are closed to zero when the water content is very small. So whenthe water content is below 0.1, the liquid water immigration, the effect of heat on liquid watermigration and effect of liquid water migration on heat transfer are very small. The relations ofmigration coefficient and infiltration coefficient with temperature and vapour partial pressure arein Figs. 5 and 6. As shown, the effects of temperature on migration coefficient and infiltrationcoefficient are larger than the effects of vapour partial pressure.
3.5
7.0
10.5
14.0
0.05 0.25 0.45
100
70
40
T=10
a
Water content θ
Appa
rent
ther
mal
con
duct
ivity
λ x
104 (k
W/m
°C)
Appa
rent
ther
mal
con
duct
ivity
λ x
104 (k
W/m
°C)
0
3.5
7.0
10.5
14.0
0 50 100 150
b0.39
0.3
θ=0.1
Temperature T (°C)
Fig. 1. Apparent thermal conductivity curve.
-1
0
1
2
3
4
0.05 0.25 0.45
a
100
70
40
T=10
Water content θ
Mas
s th
erm
al d
iffus
ivity
λ1 m
(kW
/m)
-1
0
1
2
3
4
0 50 100 150
b
0.39
0.3
θ=0.1
Temperature T (°C)M
ass
ther
mal
diff
usiv
ity λ
1 m (k
W/m
)
Fig. 2. Mass thermal diffusivity curve.
0
2.5
5.0
7.5
10.0
0.05 0.25 0.45
a
1007040
T=10
-1.0
1.4
3.8
6.2
8.6
11.0
0 50 100 150
b
0.39
0.3
θ=0.1
Temperature T (°C)
Mas
s di
ffudi
vity
λ
x103 (k
g/m
s)m
Water content θ
Mas
s di
ffusi
ty λ
mx1
03 (kg/
ms)
Fig. 3. Mass diffusivity curve.
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These calculated values are used in the numerical simulation of heat and moisture transfer inunsaturated soil. The predicted results are compared with the experimental data obtained fromone-dimensional column of soil and the agreement is satisfactory [18].
-1
0
1
2
0.05 0.25 0.45
1007040
T=10
a
Watercontent θ
Ther
mo-
mas
s di
ffusi
vity
λ x
106 (k
g/m
s°C
)m
-1
0
1
2
0 50 100 150
0.39
0.3θ=0.1
b
TemperatureT(°C)Th
erm
o-m
ass
diffu
sivi
ty λ
x 1
06 (kg/
ms°
C)
m" "
Fig. 4. Thermomass diffusivity curve.
6.0
6.5
7.0
7.5
8.0
0 600 1200 1800
100
70
40
T=10
a
Partialvapor pressure Pv (Pa)
Mig
ratio
n co
effic
ient
λ1 x
108 (k
W/m
°C)
p
6.0
6.5
7.0
7.5
8.0
8.5
0 50 100 150
0.390.3
θ=0.1
b
Temparature T (°C)
Mig
ratio
n co
effic
ient
λ1 p x
108 (k
W/m
°C)
Fig. 5. Migration coefficient curve.
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6. Conclusions
The phenomenological equation to describe the immigration process of heat and mass inunsaturated porous building material is established. The phenomenological coefficients of heatand moisture are deduced. The phenomenological coefficients of heat and moisture migration are
2.4
2.6
2.8
3.0
0 600 1200 1800
100
70
40
T=10
a
Partrial vapor pressure Pv (Pa)
Infil
tratio
n co
effic
ient
λp
x 1
011(k
g/m
Pa s
)
Infil
tratio
n co
effic
ient
λp
x 1
011(k
g/m
Pa s
)2.30
2.63
2.96
3.29
0 50 100 150
0.390.30.2
θ=0.1
b
Temperature T (°C)
Fig. 6. Infiltration coefficient curve.
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very useful for simulation of the heat and moisture migration process in porous building mate-rials. The effects of temperature, water content or partial vapour pressure on the phenomeno-logical coefficients are also discussed. For sandy block with mean particle diameter of 0.3 mm andporosity of 0.39, it is concluded that the liquid water immigration, the effect of heat on liquidwater migration and effect of liquid water migration on heat transfer in the porous buildingmaterials are very small when the water content is below 0.1.
Acknowledgements
The authors thank the support fromNational BasicResearch Project of China, no.G2000263-03.
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