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Advances in Ergonomics Modeling, Usability & Special Populations pp 391–401Cite as

Experimental Study on Thermal Comfort of Indoor Environment

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In order to study the range of comfort environment parameters, subjective assessment and objective assessment are used in this research. The main purpose of this study is to determine the temperature and humidity range, acceptable temperature fluctuation, acceptable air flow rate and acceptable vertical air temperature difference under the thermal comfort environment in summer and winter. The thermal comfort environment should make the PMV between −0.5 and +0.5 which is recommended by international standard ISO7730. Following this principle, the comfort temperature ranges in summer and winter are determined respectively, comfort temperature range is 25–28 °C in summer and 22–25 °C in winter. Under the thermal comfort environment condition, the biggest acceptable temperature fluctuation is obtained and is 0.6 °C and the biggest acceptable air flow rate is 0.5 m/s in summer. In winter, if the vertical air temperature difference is higher than 3.2 °C, the subjects feel comfortable.

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  1. Ergonomics Laboratory, China National Institute of Standardization, Beijing, China

    Huimin Hu, Chaoyi Zhao & Hong Luo

  2. Department of Building Science, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

    Rui Wang

  3. Key Laboratory for Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of Ministry of Education, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China

    Li Ding

  4. Laboratory for Man-Machine-Environment Engineering, School of Aeronautic Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China

    Yifen Qiu

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Hu, H., Wang, R., Zhao, C., Luo, H., Ding, L., Qiu, Y. (2017). Experimental Study on Thermal Comfort of Indoor Environment. In: Soares, M., Falcão, C., Ahram, T. (eds) Advances in Ergonomics Modeling, Usability & Special Populations. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 486. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41685-4_35

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