MEBS6006
Environmental Services I
1. What is Thermal Comfort?
2. Thermal Environment
and Heat Balance
3. Comfort Equation and
Prediction
4. Influencing Factors
5. Environmental Indices
6. Local Thermal Discomfort
7. Thermal Comfort Measurements
8. Thermal Comfort Software
Tool (from ASHRAE/UC Berkeley)
[Download
PowerPoint file in PDF format]
Further Reading:
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Butera, F. M., 1998. Principles
of thermal comfort, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Review, 2 (1-2):
39-66. [online
journal]
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Hui, C. M., 2005. Is 25.5 deg
C comfortable?, article for “ROTOR” – the official publication of
Engineering Society HKUSU, August (in Chinese). [PDF]
References:
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ASHRAE, 2004. ASHRAE Standard
55-2004: Thermal Environmental Conditions for Human Occupancy, American
Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Atlanta,
GA. [R
697.00218 A82 S78]
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Auliciems, A. and Szokolay,
S. V., 2002. Thermal Comfort, 2nd ed., Research, Consulting and
Communications, Kangaroo Valley, NSW : 2002. [693.832
A92]
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Fanger, P. O.,1970. Thermal
Comfort: Analysis and Applications in Environmental Enginesering, McGraw-Hill,
New York. [697.9315
F2]
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Olesen, B. W, and Brager, G.
S., 2004. A better way to predict comfort, ASHRAE
Journal, 46 (8): 20-28. [online]
E-learning:
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ASHRAE, 1997. Thermal Comfort
Tool [computer program], American Society of Heating, Refrigerating
and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Atlanta, GA. [AV
697.9315 T41]
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ASHRAE Thermal Comfort Tool
(unzip the file and run "comfort.exe") [ZIP]
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Deringer Group, 1999. EcoAdvisor:
Energy Trainer for Energy Managers: HAVC Module 1: Fundamentals, Classification,
Components, O&M, Version 1.1, developed for the National Institute
of Building Sciences and the US Army Construction Engineering Research
Laboratories, The Deringer Group, Inc., Berkeley, CA. [AV
697 E19]
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| Created: Aug 2004 | Update:
21 Sep 2009 | By: cmhui@hku.hk |