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Units of Heat Insulation

 

Description

Examples

Description

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Heat insulation has the dimension time cubed thermodynamic temperature per mass. The SI composite unit of heat insulation is the second cubed kelvin per kilogram.

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Maple knows the units of heat insulation listed in the following table.

Name

Symbols

Context

Alternate Spellings

Prefixes

 

 

 

 

 

clo

 

standard *

clos

 

Rvalue

 

standard *

Rvalues

 

 

RSI @

SI

 

 

tog

 

standard *

togs

 

  

An asterisk ( * ) indicates the default context, an at sign (@) indicates an abbreviation, and under the prefixes column, SI indicates that the unit takes all SI prefixes, IEC indicates that the unit takes IEC prefixes, and SI+ and SI- indicate that the unit takes only positive and negative SI prefixes, respectively.  Refer to a unit in the Units package by indexing the name or symbol with the context, for example, tog[standard]; or, if the context is indicated as the default, by using only the unit name or symbol, for example, tog.

  

 

  

The units of heat insulation are defined as follows.

  

A clo is defined as 0.18 degree Celsius meter squared hour per 15 degree Celsius kilocalorie.

  

A standard R value is defined as 1 square foot degree Fahrenheit hour per international table Btu.

  

An SI R value (RSI) is defined as 1 square meter kelvin per watt.

  

A tog is defined as 0.1 square meter kelvin per watt.

Examples

converttog,dimensions,base=true

thermodynamic_temperaturetime3mass

(1)

convert1,units,tog,s3Kkg

110

(2)

convert1,units,clo,s3Kkg

0.1548091165

(3)

convert1,units,clo,tog

1.548091165

(4)

See Also

convert/dimensions

convert/units

heat_transfer_coefficient

Units

Units/heat_transfer

Units/Index

Units/mass

Units/temperature

Units/time

 


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