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: HVAC 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:
27 Sep 2011 | By: cmhui@hku.hk
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