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Understanding Thermal Comfort Factors

The document outlines key concepts related to thermal comfort, including: 1) Thermal comfort is defined as a condition of satisfaction with one's thermal environment according to industry standards. 2) The body aims to keep its core temperature at 37°C and uses mechanisms like vasodilation, sweating, vasoconstriction and shivering to regulate temperature when too hot or cold. 3) Thermal comfort depends on factors like metabolism, insulation from clothing, convective and radiative heat losses, and local discomforts such as draughts or floor temperatures.

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Understanding Thermal Comfort Factors

The document outlines key concepts related to thermal comfort, including: 1) Thermal comfort is defined as a condition of satisfaction with one's thermal environment according to industry standards. 2) The body aims to keep its core temperature at 37°C and uses mechanisms like vasodilation, sweating, vasoconstriction and shivering to regulate temperature when too hot or cold. 3) Thermal comfort depends on factors like metabolism, insulation from clothing, convective and radiative heat losses, and local discomforts such as draughts or floor temperatures.

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ByZelfikar By Zelfikar Jemal ([Link]) (MSc.

In Sustainable Energy Engineering) 2005EC

Chapter Two Thermal Comfort


Outlines: DefinitionofThermalComfort Definition of Thermal Comfort BodyTemperatureRegulation ComfortEquation f i Metabolism InsulationofClothes: Clo value LocalThermalDiscomfort ModelingComforttemperatures&Examples

PerceptionofThermalComfort
How would you describe the thermal climate in this room? Use the scale: , , g y , , g y , , Hot, Warm, Slightly Warm, Neutral, Slightly Cool, Cool, Cold WhatisThermalComfort: thatconditionofmindthatexpressessatisfactionwiththethermal environment.(AccordingtoASHRAEandISO7730standards) Onwhatdoesthermalcomfortdepend?

Body Temperature Regulation: Main goal is to keep body core temperature at 37 C. i) If the body becomes too hot two mechanisms regulate the temperature: 1) Vasodilatation Increase of blood flow close to the skin. The blood is cooled down! 2) S Sweating ti The heat sensor is the hypothalamus (inside the body)

ii) If the body becomes too cold two mechanisms regulate the temperature: 1) Vasoconstriction Reduction of blood flow close to the skin. 2) Increase in internal heat generation by stimulating muscles which in turn cause shivering. These cold sensors are situated near the skin.

Metabolism

On what does the losses depend?


Convective heat losses: Skin and ambient temperature Heat Convective temperature, transfer coefficient, Exposed area, Clothing Radiative heat losses: Skin and ambient temperature, Exposed p p area, Angle factors Evaporative heat losses: Skin and ambient temperature, Heat transfer coefficient, Exposed area, Clothing, Ambient humidity

LocalThermalDiscomfort: Draught ThermalRadiationAsymmetry Thermal Radiation Asymmetry

VerticalAirTemperatureDifference

FloorTemperature Floor Temperature

Example: A naked person is in a room with an air temperature of 26 C The person is sitting down reading Assume AD = 2 C. reading. m. Is the person comfortable or not?

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