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High energy consumption of the heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) system and unsuitable preservation environment for earthen relics are common problems to the environmental control in archaeology museums, which are the main reasons that many archaeology museums in China do not equip HVAC system and are suffering deteriorations of dry cracking and salt enrichment. In this paper, an environmental control system, which employs evaporative cooling and ultrasonic humidification units to control the local environment for the relics preservation area and provide a “supersaturated” humidity (RH) for suppressing earthen cracking, is proposed. An experimental system was built to validate the feasibility of the control strategy. Experimental tests of the system were performed and the results show that the system could create a relative stable preservation for the relics, and the RH of the preservation area is high enough to replenish water to the earthen relics. It provides a high-efficiency and energy-saving environmental control strategy for historic site in archaeology museum.
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This study has been supported by the Key Scientific Research Innovation Team Project of Shaanxi Province (Grant No. 2016KCT-14), Shaanxi Provincial Natural Science Foundation (2018JM5091), the Opening Projects of Bei**g Advanced Innovation Center for Future Urban Design, Bei**g University of Civil Engineering and Architecture (Grant No. 30) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. zrzd2017003).
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Chang, B., Luo, X., Shen, Y., Li, J., Gu, Z. (2020). Experimental Investigation on an Evaporative Cooling System for the Environmental Control in Archaeology Museum. In: Wang, Z., Zhu, Y., Wang, F., Wang, P., Shen, C., Liu, J. (eds) Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (ISHVAC 2019). ISHVAC 2019. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9524-6_22
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