{"id":1710,"date":"2011-12-01T12:47:18","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T16:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vassar.edu\/ltt\/?p=1710"},"modified":"2011-12-07T17:09:35","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T21:09:35","slug":"group-5-conclusions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/?p=1710","title":{"rendered":"group 5 conclusions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Results and Conclusions:<\/strong><\/p>\n

After calculating the average power consumption of the necessary devices (lamp, fan, space heater, water heater) in Watts, our next step was to assess the prevalence of these devices in the dormitories in question. We surveyed 10 random rooms in each building, attempting to identify a distribution of rooms of varying sizes (both singles and doubles) in each building. We attempted to survey a distribution of rooms of equivalent sizes in each building. Our survey asked students to assess their average daily usage for each device over the month of November.<\/p>\n

After our survey, we compiled the aggregate device usage hours for each device. Additionally, we multiplied those usage hours by the average power consumption rate (based on our findings from the WattsUpPro) for that device. We compiled all of that data to find the total power consumption for the pertinent devices of those students. These are our results:<\/p>\n

Lathrop:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lamp power consumption: 114hours x 14.4W = 1641.6Wh<\/p>\n

Fan power consumption: 27hours x 39.2W = 1058.2Wh<\/p>\n

Space heater power consumption: 55hours x 1460W = 80,300Wh<\/p>\n

Water heater power consumption: 1hour x 669.6W = 669.6Wh<\/p>\n

Total power consumption: 83,669.4Wh\/day <\/strong><\/p>\n

Davison:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lamp power consumption: 65hous x 14.4W = 936Wh<\/p>\n

Fan power consumption: 90hours x 39.2W = 3528Wh<\/p>\n

Space heater power consumption: 0hours<\/p>\n

Water heater power consumption: .92hours x 669.6W = 613.8Wh<\/p>\n

Total power consumption: 5,077.8Wh\/day<\/strong><\/p>\n

As we can easily see, the power consumption of climate regulating devices in Lathrop House is far greater than that of Davison House. In fact, it was roughly 16.5 times greater. This confirms our initial expectation that power consumption in Lathrop House (the older dormitory) would be greater than that of Davison house.<\/p>\n

We should note that the vast majority of the difference in power consumption derived from the use of space heaters in Lathrop. We might assume that this number derives from the older, and probably inferior, insulation in that building compared to that of Davison. We believe that a more exhaustive survey of the buildings would provide support for the significance of this trend.<\/p>\n

It is also notable, however, that the usage of fans was more prevalent in Davison than it was in Lathrop. Perhaps we can surmise that the same insulation that necessitates so few space heaters in Davison also relates to a lack of ventilation in that building.<\/p>\n

In summary, the average power consumption rates of climate controlling devices were far greater in Lathrop House than in Davison House. We believe that it is likely that the older nature of the Lathrop House was at least partly responsible for this phenomenon. The recent renovation of Davison will likely necessitate far less climate controlling device usage in that dorm in the recent future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Results and Conclusions: After calculating the average power consumption of the necessary devices (lamp, fan, space heater, water heater) in Watts, our next step was to assess the prevalence of these devices in the dormitories in question. We surveyed 10 random rooms in each building, attempting to identify a distribution of rooms of varying sizes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":591,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56645],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-group-5-fall-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/591"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1710"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1766,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions\/1766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}