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Learning occupants’ indoor comfort temperature through a Bayesian inference approach for office buildings in United States [PDF]
, 2020 A carefully chosen indoor comfort temperature as the thermostat set-point is the key to optimizing building energy use and occupants’ comfort and well-being.
Hong, T, Wang, Z
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Predicted percentage dissatisfied with vertical temperature gradient [PDF]
, 2020 A vertical thermally stratified environment provides opportunities for improved ventilation effectiveness and energy efficiency, but vertical temperature gradient can also cause local thermal discomfort.
Arens, Edward +6 more
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Energies, 2021 This paper presents an empirical approach to design ideal workplaces using the PMV-PPD (predicted mean vote–predicted percentage dissatisfied) method set in ISO 7730 in terms of thermal comfort.
Balázs Cakó +9 more
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Effect of insulation on indoor thermal comfort in a detached house with a floor heating system [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2019 Appropriate insulation materials, with unique physical properties and of moderate thickness, are essential for energy savings in residential buildings. However, the impact of thermal insulation on indoor thermal comfort with floor heating systems has not
Guo Qianwen +4 more
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Jurnal Optimasi Sistem Industri, 2017 Nowadays, developers of residential houses often neglect to pay attention about the air circulation as one of the factors that affects thermal comfort zones inside the room environment. In general, people overcome the thermal discomfort using mechanical
Lusi Susanti, Sri Zetli
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Przegląd Naukowy Inżynieria i Kształtowanie Środowiska, 2020 Comfort of the train passengers is the main priority of modern mass rapid transit (MRT) management. Objective of this paper is to investigate the thermal comfort of the elevated MRT station in tropical climate. The first step of this study was to conduct
Sugiono Sugiono +4 more
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Buildings, 2021 In order to maintain thermal comfort and preserve indoor environmental quality, people use heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems inside buildings.
Pedro Filipe da Conceição Pereira +1 more
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Thermal comfort based fuzzy logic control [PDF]
, 2001 Most heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) control systems are considered as temperature control problems. In this work, the predicted mean vote (PMV) is used to control the indoor temperature of a space by setting it at a point where the PMV ...
Danaher, Sean +2 more
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The adaptive thermal comfort review from the 1920s, the present, and the future
Developments in the Built Environment, 2020 The typical method for comfort analysis is the Predicted Mean Vote and Predicted Percentage Dissatisfied (PMV-PPD). However, they present limitations in accommodating the comfort of a disabled and elder group of people, which are the most vulnerable to ...
Kanisius Karyono +3 more
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Thermal Perception in Mild Climate: Adaptive Thermal Models for Schools [PDF]
, 2019 A comprehensive assessment of indoor environmental conditions is performed on a representative sample of classrooms in schools across southern Spain (Mediterranean climate) to evaluate the thermal comfort level, thermal perception and preference, and ...
Campano Laborda, Miguel Ángel +3 more
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