Thermal Comfort Case Study

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The PPD is an index that establishes a quantitative prediction of the percentage of thermally dissatisfied people who feel either too cool or too warm. Fig. 8 shows the PMV and PPD for all three cases. For the calculation metabolic rate and clothing value are assumed 1.2 and 0.8 respectively. Figure 8 is about here As shown in Fig. 8 thermal comfort criteria for category B was obtained using different supply water temperatures in different cases. Since different amount of serially combined panels used in different cases, air temperature in steady state conditions varies with water temperature. In Case 1 and Case 2, thermal comfort criteria could not be obtained for supply water temperatures under 40 oC and 32 oC respectively, since head load…show more content…
Conclusion The thermal comfort was studied using the PMV index scale. The parameters to calculate PMV index were taken from experiments. Metabolic rate and clothing value were assumed to be 1.2 and 0.8 respectively. PMV-PPD diagram shows that thermal comfort is achieved at different air temperatures. In Case 1, comfort conditions were achieved at lower operative temperature, when the three cases were compared at the ideal thermal environment. The vertical air temperature difference between 0.1 m and 1.7 m was less than recommended values in ISO 7730 in all cases. Furthermore, room air temperature is highly uniform in Case 1 which is less than 0.3 oC. The mean radiant temperature, a necessary element for the PMV calculations, was evaluated using a radiosity method by calculating the view factors of each surface and with the data from the experiment. The results reported in this paper confirm that the cooling ceiling has advantages much like low vertical air difference and satisfactory thermal environment. Although there is not much difference between these three cases, better results were obtained in terms of thermal comfort and local discomfort in Case 1 since negative effect of window is reduced by the radiant wall panels. Thus, it is recommended that the locations of the mounting radiant wall panels be on the exterior walls with

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