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A Study of Thermal Comfort by Winter Temperature Humidity Change  

Kim, Se-Hwan (Department of Building System Engineering, Dongeui University)
Lee, Sung (Department of Building System Engineering, Dongeui University)
Kim, Dong-Gyu (Department of Mechnical Engineering, Pukyung National University)
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Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering / v.19, no.11, 2007 , pp. 803-809 More about this Journal
Abstract
To those who spend most time within a room, comfortable indoor environment is a very critical element to job performance and health. The comfort technology, which is for enhancing comfort in human living, relates with various factors to ensure human activities efficient, comfortable, safe and satisfactory. Experiments were performed in environmental chamber. Experimental conditions were combinations from three temperatures of 18, 22 and 26C, and two relative humidity levels of 45 and 60%. Air-flow was controlled to 0.1m/s through the experiment. Four male and four female university students participated in the experiments. They had normal blood pressure and their body temperature was under $37^{\circ}C$. From the experiments for evaluating thermal sensation to the air-heating conditions, relationships among TSV, CSV, $SET^*$, PMV were analyzed. Results can be summarized as followings; Thermal neutrality $SET^*$ of man and female was $24.8^{\circ}C$. In air-heating condition, $SET^*$ values for thermal comfort zone were $23.0{\sim}26.5^{\circ}C$. These values were higher than the values from ASHRAE.
Keywords
Thermal comfort; PMV; $SET^*$;
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