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Eusébio Z. E. Conceição, António F. M. Sousa, João M. M. Gomes and António E. Ruano
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Xuejun Qi, Xing Zhao, Bin Fu, Lanjing Xu, Haibin Yu and Shuyan Tao
The urban heat island phenomenon in large cities is becoming increasingly serious as urbanization continues to develop, seriously affecting the lives of urban residents. Rivers can effectively alleviate urban heat islands and improve the thermal comfort ...
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Tania Rus, Raluca Moldovan, Horatiu Albu and Dorin Beu
The indoor environmental quality of a building has attracted everyone?s attention since a worldwide pandemic was declared and forced people indoors. After several months, people were able to return to their usual activities, but with strict safety measur...
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Jin Bao, Lihua Xu, Yijun Shi, Qiwei Ma and Zhangwei Lu
The urban thermal environment has become a challenging issue. Streets, as an essential public space in cities, can be laid out in such a way to effectively alleviate a problematic urban thermal environment. In this study, we calculated the layout charact...
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Xiaolong Wang, Tian Mu, Lili Zhang, Wenke Zhang and Linhua Zhang
The increasing application of floor heating technology promotes the development of floor radiant cooling technology (abbreviated as FRC technology). Many office buildings in northern China try to use FRC technology to cool in summer, but thermal comfort ...
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Craig Farnham and Jihui Yuan
Mist evaporation cooling (MEC) is increasingly used as a low-energy means to improve thermal comfort in hot environments. However, the thermal sensation votes (TSV) often overshoot values of Predicted Mean Vote (PMV) models. Evaluations of MEC may be aff...
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Abdulelah D. Alhamayani, Qiancheng Sun and Kevin P. Hallinan
Nowadays, most indoor cooling control strategies are based solely on the dry-bulb temperature, which is not close to a guarantee of thermal comfort of occupants. Prior research has shown cooling energy savings from use of a thermal comfort control method...
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Sung-Kyung Kim, Won-Hwa Hong, Jung-Ha Hwang, Myung-Sup Jung and Yong-Seo Park
This study examined a method to reduce energy consumption in office buildings. Correspondingly, an optimal control method was proposed for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems via two control algorithms that considered the indoor the...
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Etianne Alves Souza de Oliveira, Antonio Augusto de Paula Xavier, Ariel Orlei Michaloski, Elisandra Montes Pizybski
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It has been questioned what influence the architectural variables have on the workers? thermal comfort since the building is a barrier between both the external and internal environments. This article presents the findings of an applied research th...
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S. TOY,S. YILMAZ
In this study, the extents of the effects of a medium-sized, unindustrialized and well planned city, Erzincan, in Turkey on human thermal comfort conditions tried to be determined comparing the results of thermal comfort calculations, by means of meteoro...
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Mahmoud Al-Faris, John Chiverton, David Ndzi and Ahmed Isam Ahmed
A wide range of techniques exist to help control the thermal comfort of an occupant in indoor environments. A novel technique is presented here to adaptively estimate the occupant?s metabolic rate. This is performed by utilising occupant?s actions using ...
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Karyn Ferreira Antunes Ribeiro,Ana Clara Alves Justi,Flávia Maria de Moura Santos,Marta Cristina de Jesus Albuquerque Nogueira,Carlo Ralph De Musis
Objetivou-se com o presente estudo analisar os índices de conforto térmico PMV e PET em diferentes ambientes abertos. Logo, coletou-se variáveis climáticas por meio de estações micro meteorológicas fixas e para estimar o conforto térmico, aplicou-se ques...
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Dong Xie and Kun Li
In recent years, the waterway navigation and transportation industry has been developing rapidly, and the living environment of ship cabins has not received much attention. Using questionnaire surveys, data collection and computer simulations, this study...
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João Paulo Assis Gobo, Emerson Galvani and Cássio Arthur Wollmann
This research concerns a first approach to adapt the thermal comfort bands of the Physiological Equivalent Temperature (PET), New Standard Effective Temperature (SET), and Predicted Mean Vote (PMV) indices to Santa Maria?s population, Rio Grande do Sul, ...
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Abdulelah D. Alhamayani, Qiancheng Sun and Kevin P. Hallinan
The net-zero global carbon target for 2050 needs both expansion of renewable energy and substantive energy consumption reduction. Many of the solutions needed are expensive. Controlling HVAC systems in buildings based upon thermal comfort, not just tempe...
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Paolo Valdiserri, Silvia Cesari, Maddalena Coccagna, Pasquale Romio and Sante Mazzacane
Hospitals require the highest energy demands in non-residential buildings. They provide healthcare 24/7/365 and, at the same time, they ensure indoor air quality, thermal comfort and sterility. However, several studies reveal that high indoor temperature...
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Ki-Hyung Yu, Seong-Hoon Yoon, Hae-Kwon Jung, Kee Han Kim and Kyoo-Dong Song
Under-floor air distribution (UFAD) systems are occupied-area-based air conditioning systems that generally offer advantages over ceiling-based air distribution (CBAD) systems in terms of energy efficiency and thermal comfort; accordingly, UFAD systems h...
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Constanza del Pilar Molina, Leornardo Veas
El confort ambiental es un parámetro esencial en cualquier recinto de trabajo y cada día toma más fuerza, pero poco seconoce. Se midieron variables ambientales y realizaron encuestas de satisfacción en 10 edificios públicos en uso en Chile, obteniéndose ...
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Dong Liu, Na Liu, Donglin Ren, Xiaozhou Wu, Jun Wang, Yabin Tian, Anjie Hu, Li Wan and Jialan Wen
The thermal comfort of preschool children was assumed to be similar to that of young adults, which may cause inaccuracy. This study tested and analyzed the thermal response characteristics of young adults and preschool children (4?6 years old) and the di...
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João Paulo Assis Gobo,Marlon Resende Faria,Emerson Galvani
Há uma lacuna existente quanto a estudos direcionados a análise do conforto térmico humano em ambientes urbanos de médio e pequeno porte, onde quase metade da população urbana mundial vive. No Brasil, tais estudos são fundamentais pela expressão que as c...
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