Dataset on the hygrothermal performance of a date palm concrete wall

Tarek Alioua; Boudjemaa Agoudjil; Nawal Chennouf; Abderrahim Boudenne; Karim Benzarti

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2019.104590

Dataset on the hygrothermal performance of a date palm concrete wall

Data Brief. 2019 Oct 9:27:104590. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2019.104590. eCollection 2019 Dec.

Authors

Tarek Alioua^{1

2}, Boudjemaa Agoudjil², Nawal Chennouf^{1

2}, Abderrahim Boudenne¹, Karim Benzarti³

Affiliations

¹ Université Paris Est Créteil Val de Marne/CERTES, 61 Av. Du G1 Av. Du e Marne, 94010 Créteil Cedex, France.
² Université Batna -1, LPEA, Les Allées 19 Mai Route de Biskra Batna, Algeria.
³ Université Paris-Est, Laboratoire NAVIER, UMR8205, IFSTTAR, F77447 Marne la Vallée, France.

Abstract

The present data article is concerned with the hygrothermal performance at the wall scale of a new bio-based building material including date palm fibres. A specific test setup allowed to measure temperature and relative humidity (RH) profiles at three different depths of the bio-based wall subjected to outdoor boundary conditions. Besides, a partial differential equations resolution software was then used to solve two mathematical models (i.e., Kunzel and Mendes models) describing heat and moisture transfer in porous building materials. Both experimental/simulated temperature and RH profiles are provided with this dataset article. The proposed experimental setup can be used for studying the hygrothermal performance of different kinds of bio-based building materials at wall scale, while experimental/numerical data can serve as reference values for the validation of mathematical models intended to describe heat and mass transfer.

Keywords: Bio-based building materials; Date palm; Heat and moisture transfer; Hygrothermal; Mathematical models; Simulation; Wall scale.