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Thermal-environment characteristics and comfort of combined radiant-floor (Korean heating system ondol) and convective cooling system

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The thermal-environment characteristics of the existing forced-convection cooling system were compared with those of the convective cooling system, which combined the radiant-floor cooling system using floor-heating panel typically applied to apartments in South Korea with the forced-convection cooling system using improved fan coil unit. The subjective warm/cool-feeling responses to the combined radiant-floor and convective cooling system in the questionnaire survey conducted among the test subjects were analyzed to establish the basic data for the combined cooling system. The results show that in the thermal-equilibrium condition, the vertical air temperature difference in the model living room is larger in the forced-convection-cooling condition. Most of the subjects feel a proper warm/cool feeling on their entire body, but they feel colder on the foot and lower body in the combined-cooling condition.

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  1. School of Architecture, Kyungpook National University, 1370 Sangyeok-dong Buk-gu, Daegu, Korea

    Kang-Guk Lee & Won-Hwa Hong

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Received date: Project(NRF-2013RIA2A1A01014020) supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea

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Lee, KG., Hong, WH. Thermal-environment characteristics and comfort of combined radiant-floor (Korean heating system ondol) and convective cooling system. J. Cent. South Univ. 20, 3589–3603 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11771-013-1885-0

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