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Romina Rissetto and Marcel Schweiker
Rising global temperatures have increased the need for research into human adaptability and comfort in buildings. To reduce comfort-related energy demands, low-energy-consumption alternatives for space cooling, such as personal environmental control syst...
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Juan Carlos Silva-Romero, Juan Manuel Belman-Flores and Salvador M. Aceves
The study and development of miniature refrigeration and climate conditioning systems based on vapor compression for small-scale applications have received wide interest in recent years due to their advantages compared with other available technologies, ...
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Wanwan Wang and Mengmeng Zhao
Personal cooling garments were reported effective in improving thermal comfort in hot environments. In this study, three liquid?air hybrid cooling garments and one control garment were designed and made: aluminum-tube fan cooling (AAL), silicone-tube fan...
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Radoslav Ponechal, Peter Barnák and Pavol Durica
The subject of the following analysis is the Research Centre building of the University of Zilina (RC UNIZA), which was purposely designed as a low-carbon project. The measurements of selected offices were carried out to verify how the building envelope ...
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Zhonghua Gou, Jian Zhang and Leigh Shutter
Today?s office buildings adopt open-plan settings for collaboration and space efficiency. However, the open plan setting has been intensively criticized for its adverse user experiences, such as noise, privacy loss, and over cooling. The provision of per...
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Yingdong He, Nianping Li, Xiang Wang, Meiling He and De He
It is well known that personal cooling improves thermal comfort and save energy. This study aims to: (1) compare different personal cooling systems and (2) understand what influences users? willingness to adopt them. A series of experiments on several ty...
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