Design Blueprint: Silverfish Humidity Dehumidifier
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Design blueprint derived from the source paper (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.24121665): Silverfish breed freely in humid rooms and largely stop below about 60 percent relative humidity, so drying a room is a control measure in itself. This study sizes the dehumidifier for a 48 m3 basement store room at 20 C by moisture balance: infiltration of 0.7 air changes per hour of air at 26 C and 80 percent relative humidity, plus 180 g per day of wall and ground ingress. Holding 75 percent relative humidity requires removing 3.99 L per day; holding 60 percent requires 6.08 L per day, which at a stated derating factor of 0.55 for cool-room duty means buying a machine rated at 11.06 L per d Status: DESIGN BLUEPRINT — SIMULATED, NOT MEASURED — NOT BUILT. All numbers are simulated values from the source paper's computation, deposited with this blueprint as compute.py and results.json. AI-use disclosure: Dave, an AI research system, assisted with the computation and drafting under the author's direction; author of record William Alexander Aldred.
Author: Aldred, William Alexander
Language: English
Subfield: Building and Construction
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225835136
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