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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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Xiaolong Wang, Tian Mu, Lili Zhang, Wenke Zhang and Linhua Zhang
The increasing application of floor heating technology promotes the development of floor radiant cooling technology (abbreviated as FRC technology). Many office buildings in northern China try to use FRC technology to cool in summer, but thermal comfort ...
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Abdulelah D. Alhamayani, Qiancheng Sun and Kevin P. Hallinan
Nowadays, most indoor cooling control strategies are based solely on the dry-bulb temperature, which is not close to a guarantee of thermal comfort of occupants. Prior research has shown cooling energy savings from use of a thermal comfort control method...
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Mahmoud Al-Faris, John Chiverton, David Ndzi and Ahmed Isam Ahmed
A wide range of techniques exist to help control the thermal comfort of an occupant in indoor environments. A novel technique is presented here to adaptively estimate the occupant?s metabolic rate. This is performed by utilising occupant?s actions using ...
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Eusébio Conceição, João Gomes, Maria Manuela Lúcio, Maria Inês Conceição and Hazim Awbi
This paper presents a comparative study of a clean technology based on a DSF (double skin facade) used in winter conditions in the occupied buildings comfort improvement, namely the thermal comfort and air quality. The performance of a solar DSF system, ...
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Sung-Kyung Kim, Won-Hwa Hong, Jung-Ha Hwang, Myung-Sup Jung and Yong-Seo Park
This study examined a method to reduce energy consumption in office buildings. Correspondingly, an optimal control method was proposed for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems via two control algorithms that considered the indoor the...
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Yafei Zhao, Paolo Vincenzo Genovese and Zhixing Li
With the improvement of technologies, people?s demand for intelligent devices of indoor and outdoor living environments keeps increasing. However, the traditional control system only adjusts living parameters mechanically, which cannot better meet the re...
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Paolo Valdiserri, Silvia Cesari, Maddalena Coccagna, Pasquale Romio and Sante Mazzacane
Hospitals require the highest energy demands in non-residential buildings. They provide healthcare 24/7/365 and, at the same time, they ensure indoor air quality, thermal comfort and sterility. However, several studies reveal that high indoor temperature...
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Eusébio Z. E. Conceição, António F. M. Sousa, João M. M. Gomes and António E. Ruano
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Jin Woo Moon, Jae D. Chang and Sooyoung Kim
This study examines the performance and adaptability of Artificial Neural Network (ANN)-based thermal control strategies for diverse thermal properties of building envelope conditions applied to residential buildings. The thermal performance using two no...
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