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)
[PowerPoint file in PDF
format]
Further Reading:
- ASHRAE, 2013. ASHRAE
Standard 55-2013: Thermal Environmental Conditions for
Human Occupancy, American Society of Heating,
Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Atlanta, GA. [ASHRAE
Catalog: 697 A82 T4]
- Butera, F. M.,
1998. Principles of thermal comfort, Renewable and
Sustainable Energy Review, 2 (1-2): 39-66. [online
journal]
- Segmented thermal
manikin to assess humand response to non-uniform
environments (from UC Berkeley) [Photo1][Photo2]
References:
- Auliciems, A.
and Szokolay, S. V., 2002. Thermal Comfort, 2nd ed.,
Research, Consulting and Communications, Kangaroo Valley,
NSW : 2002. [693.832
A92][http://plea-arch.org/wp-content/uploads/PLEA-NOTE-3-THERMAL-COMFORT.pdf]
- Fanger, P.
O.,1970. Thermal Comfort: Analysis and Applications in
Environmental Enginesering, McGraw-Hill, New York. [697.9315
F2]
- Hui, C. M., 2005.
Is 25.5 deg C comfortable?, article for “ROTOR” – the
official publication of Engineering Society HKUSU, August
(in Chinese). [PDF]
- Nicol, F., Humphreys, M. and
Roaf, S., 2012. Adaptive Thermal
Comfort: Principles and Practice, Earthscan from
Routledge, Abingdon,
Oxon [England] and New York, NY. [697 N634 a22]
- Olesen, B. W, and
Brager, G. S., 2004. A better way to predict comfort, ASHRAE
Journal, 46 (8): 20-28. [online]
E-learning:
- ASHRAE, 1997. Thermal
Comfort Tool [computer program], American Society of
Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers,
Atlanta, GA. [AV
697.9315
T41]
- ASHRAE
Thermal Comfort Tool (unzip the file and run
"comfort.exe") [ZIP]
- Thermal Comfort
Tool for ASHRAE-55 (UC Berkeley), http://cbe.berkeley.edu/comforttool/
Web Links:
| Created: Aug
2004 | Update: 15 Feb 2014 | By: cmhui@hku.hk |
