Personal Comfort Systems for Improving Indoor Thermal Comfort and Air Quality

Bin Yang editor Maohui Luo editor Faming Wang editor Qihong Deng editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Springer Verlag, Singapore

Published:1st Jun '23

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Personal Comfort Systems for Improving Indoor Thermal Comfort and Air Quality cover

This book first describes fundamental knowledge on human thermal comfort, adaptive thermal comfort, thermal comfort in sleeping environments, modeling of human thermal comfort, and thermal comfort assessment using human trials. Next, it presents an in-depth review of concept progress and evaluation of various personal comfort system, summarizes important findings and feasible applications, current gaps as well as future research needs. The seven chapters included in this section are task/ambient conditioning systems, personalized ventilation systems, electric fans, personal comfort systems, thermoelectric systems, personal thermal management systems, and wearable personal thermal comfort systems. This book provides valuable guidance for personal comfort system design and further improvement on the personal comfort performance. It will be a valuable resource for academic researchers, engineers in industry, and government regulators in the field of sustainable buildings and built environment.

ISBN: 9789819907175

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280 pages

2023 ed.