Personal Comfort Systems for Improving Indoor Thermal Comfort and Air Quality (1st ed. 2023) (Indoor Environment and Sustainable Building)

By: Faming Wang and Bin Yang and Qihong Deng and Maohui Luo

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9789819907182
Related ISBNs:: 9789819907175
Publisher:: Springer Nature Singapore
Date of Addition:: 07/01/23
Copyrighted By:: The Editor
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Science, Art and Architecture, Technology, Earth Sciences
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Faming Wang
Edited by:: Bin Yang
Edited by:: Qihong Deng
Edited by:: Maohui Luo