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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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Christian Hepf, Ben Gottkehaskamp, Clayton Miller and Thomas Auer
Building operational energy alone accounts for 28% of global carbon emissions. A sustainable building operation promises enormous savings, especially under the increasing concern of climate change and the rising trends of the digitalization and electrifi...
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Xiaoyang Li, Xiaohui Lin, Changyue Xu and Zhuopei Li
The calculation of a cockpit?s transient thermal load is important for determining the capacity of the cockpit environmental control system, ensuring the safety of electronic equipment and increasing the health and comfort of cockpit occupants. According...
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Eric Teitelbaum, Clayton Miller and Forrest Meggers
The psychrometric chart is the most common data visualization technique for the designers of thermal comfort systems worldwide. From its humble roots as means of expressing the characteristics of air in building systems design, the use of the chart has g...
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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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Guanghui Liu, Xiaohui Wang, Yuebo Meng, Yalin Zhang and Tingting Chen
Thermal discomfort body language has been shown to be a psychological representation of personnel?s particular thermal comfort. Individual thermal comfort differences are ignored in public building settings with random personnel flow. To solve this issue...
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Jan Kosny, Jay Thakkar, Tlegen Kamidollayev, Margaret J. Sobkowicz, Juan Pablo Trelles, Cordula Schmid, Sampson Phan, Saibhargav Annavajjala and Peter Horwath
PCMs are attractive for the future generation of buildings, where energy efficiency targets and thermal comfort expectations are increasingly prioritized. Experimental analysis of local thermal processes in these dynamic components and whole-building ene...
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Yuchen Ju, Pauli Hiltunen, Juha Jokisalo, Risto Kosonen and Sanna Syri
Demand response techniques can be effective at reducing heating costs for building owners. However, few studies have considered the dynamic marginal costs for district heating production and taken advantage of them for building-level demand response. In ...
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Alejandro Moreno-Rangel, Tim Sharpe, Gráinne McGill and Filbert Musau
The ongoing climate change and policies around it are changing how we design and build homes to meet national carbon emission targets. Some countries such as Scotland are adopting higher-energy-efficient buildings as minimum requirements in the building ...
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Xiaozhou Wu, Hao Gao, Mingming Zhao, Jie Gao, Zhen Tian and Xiangli Li
A ceiling cooling system integrated with a mechanical ventilation system has been widely used in modern buildings with large sensible cooling loads due to the high thermal comfort level and large energy efficiency. However, there is a lack of systematic ...
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