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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; Boston :
Butterworths, in association with the International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works,
1986.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Series: | Butterworths series in conservation and museology
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| Online Access: | Table of contents |
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Table of Contents:
- Light Part I Surface deterioration
- Light and heat energy
- The spectrum
- The basic light sources
- Colours and materials which change
- Damage caused by UV and visible radiation
- UV radiation and how to deal with it
- Measuring UV and visible radiation
- The reciprocity law
- Controlling visible radiation
- Reducing illuminance
- 50 lux
- artificial light
- Diffusion of light
- 200 lux
- daylight and artificial light
- Conservation lighting specifications
- Treatment of windows
- Angle at which light falls on exhibits
- Reducing time of exposure
- A suite of exhibition rooms
- Heat
- Control of temperaturet S
- Lighting for professional photography, television
- and restoration
- Electronic flash
- Colour rendering
- The measurement of colour
- The lighting situation and the process of seeing
- Humidity Part I The importance of humidity
- Measuring the humidity in the air
- The wet-and-dry-bulb hygrometer
- Electronic hygrometers
- Non-mechanical hygrometers
- linderstanding the hygrometric chart
- Response of museum material to RH
- Best RH for moisture-containing absorbent materials
- Climate inside anld outside the museum
- Condensation and the dew point
- Humidity control
- RH control in a room
- The humidistat
- Humidifying equipment
- Dehumidifying equipment
- Room RH control: maintenance and air circulation
- Packaged air-conditioning units
- Ducted air conditioning
- RH control in a closed case
- buffers
- Silica gel in packing cases
- Exhibition cases
- The buffered case: towards a practical solution
- RH control in a closed case
- use of salts
- Mechanical RH stabilisation in cases
- Future development of exhibition case stabilisation
- RH is often a matter of compromise
- Historic buildings closed in winter and churches
- Improvisation and RH control
- Humidity control in archaeology
- Air Pollution Part I The problem
- Particulates
- Particulate concentrations today
- New concrete buildings
- Removal of particulates
- Electrostatic precipitators (electro-filters)
- Gaseous pollution
- Sulphur dioxide (SO2)
- Damage.caused by sulphur dioxide
- Glass and sulphur dioxide
- Effects of sulphur dioxide on lichens and mosses
- Ozone
- Effects of ozone
- Nitrogen oxides
- Effects of nitrogen dioxide
- Levels of ozone and nitrogen dioxide likely to be
- encountered
- Chlorides
- Pollution through storage conditions
- Removal of gaseous pollutants
- Fire extinguishers
- Sound and vibration
- Light Part II Spectral curves
- Sun and sky
- Lamps and control equipment
- Measuring UV
- Luminous efficiency and the light meter
- Some basic light units
- Visual performance
- Luminance and subjective brightness
- The Blue Wool standards
- Damage versus wavelength
- Heat radiated from light sources
- Activation energy
- The primary photochemical reaction
- Placing a colour on the CIE Chromaticity Chart
- The colour rendering calculation
- Colour rendering and the black body convention
- Choosing a fluorescent lamp
- Dimming
- Humidity Part II The standard hygrometric (psychrometric) chart
- The classical air-conditioning operation
- A museum air-conditioning system
- Control
- Heating and cooling loads
- Sensors
- External design conditions
- Dimensional changes caused by RH variation
- Outdoor climate and response of objects indoors
- Does constant RH keep dimensions unchanged at all
- temperatures?
- Effect of people on RH and temperature
- Use of the air moisture-content scale
- The closed and buffered museum case
- Hygrometric half-time
- Materials useful as buffers, .
- Penetration of oxygen and water vapour through
- plastic films
- Air Pollution Part II Plotting the size distribution of particulates
- Choice of particulate filter
- Efficiency of activated carbon filters
- Room air cleaners
- Measuring concentrations of pollutants in museums
- The fate of sulphur dioxide in the atmosphere
- The formation of ozone
- Computers in environment control
- Data logging
- Future trends in environmental control
- Appendix: Summary of specifications
- References
- Index. hfbf.