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Thermal comfort and human factors

1. What is thermal comfort?

2. Comfort equation & analysis

3. Influencing factors

4. Adaptive thermal comfort

5. Human factors

(Powerpoint file in PDF format)

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Video Presentation:

• Thermal Comfort in Buildings Explained - HVACR Design (11:04) https://youtu.be/yEWT_XmqCtQ

Further Reading:

• Thermal comfort - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_comfort
  
• Thermal comfort in buildings - Designing Buildings Wiki https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Thermal_comfort_in_buildings
  
• CBE Thermal Comfort Tool for ASHRAE-55 https://comfort.cbe.berkeley.edu/

References:

• ASHRAE, 2017. ASHRAE Standard 55-2017: Thermal Environmental Conditions for Human Occupancy, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Atlanta, GA. [ASHRAE Catalog: 697 A82 T4]
• Auliciems, A. and Szokolay, S. V., 2002. Thermal Comfort, 2nd ed., Research, Consulting and Communications, Kangaroo Valley, NSW : 2002. [693.832 A92]
• [https://www.healthyheating.com/HH_Integrated_Design/Week%201/Thermal%20Comfort.pdf]
• [http://plea-arch.org/wp-content/uploads/PLEA-NOTE-3-THERMAL-COMFORT.pdf]
• Bienvenido-Huertas D. & Rubio-Bellido C., 2021. Adaptive Thermal Comfort of Indoor Environment for Residential Buildings: Efficient Strategy for Saving Energy, Springer, Singapore. [HKALL]
  
• Butera, F. M., 1998. Principles of thermal comfort, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Review, 2 (1-2): 39-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1364-0321(98)00011-2
• D'Ambrosio F. R. & Palella B. I. (eds.), 2020. Indoor Thermal Comfort, Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), Basel, Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-03943-528-9
  
• de Dear R. J., Akimoto T., Arens E. A., Brager G., Candido C., Cheong K. W. D., Li B., Nishihara N., Sekhar S. C., Tanabe S., Toftum J., Zhang H. & Zhu Y., 2013. Progress in thermal comfort research over the last twenty years, Indoor Air, 23 (6) 442-461. [HKU Library]
  
• Fanger, P. O.,1970. Thermal Comfort: Analysis and Applications in Environmental Engineering, McGraw-Hill, New York. [HKALL][697.9315 F2]
• HKGBC Guidebook on Urban Microclimate Study https://www.hkgbc.org.hk/eng/engagement/file/UMC_Guidebook_amended_reduced.pdf
• ISO, 1995. ISO 7730: Moderate Thermal Environments – Determination of the PMV and PPD Indices and Specifications for Thermal Comfort, 2nd ed., International Organisation for Standardisation, Geneva, Switzerland. [IHSERC Specs & Standards]
• Nicol, F., Humphreys, M. and Roaf, S., 2012. Adaptive Thermal Comfort: Principles and Practice, Earthscan from Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon [England] and New York, NY. [HKALL][697 N634 a22]
• Nicol J. F. & Roaf S., 2017. Rethinking thermal comfort, Building Research & Information, 45 (7) 711-716. https://doi.org/10.1080/09613218.2017.1301698
• Parsons K. C., 2020. Human Thermal Comfort, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, FL. [HKALL]
• Pohl J., 2011. Building Science: Concepts and Application, 1st ed., Wiley-Blackwell. [HKALL]
• Shukuya M., 2019. Bio-Climatology for the Built Environment, Chapman and Hall/CRC, Milton. [HKALL]

Web Links:

• Equivalent temperature - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalent_temperature
  
• Operative temperature - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operative_temperature
  
• What Is ASHRAE 55? Basics of Thermal Comfort https://www.simscale.com/blog/what-is-ashrae-55-thermal-comfort/

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| Created: Jul 2022 | Update: 5 Sep 2022 |