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Tailored Comfort: Revealing Targeted Body Parts for Energy-Efficient Localized Heating and Cooling Systems
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2631-3801
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7902-7913
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3132-2702
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4015-236X
Localized and individualized systems provide targeted heating or cooling to specific body parts without changing the air temperature in the room. This can lead to significant energy savings as well as improving thermal comfort. Local radiant heating systems could be considered an alternative to traditional heating systems because they can directly heat specific body parts while consuming less energy than traditional systems. Also, they have the potential to overcome the problem of traditional systems and achieve standard limits for thermal comfort. One of the most important challenges in using local systems is finding the proper body parts with the most influence on the whole-body thermal condition. This paper attempts to determine which body parts should be targeted in local systems through experimental investigation, by gathering thermal comfort answers from 45 participants when heating different body parts. Results indicated that using local radiant heating could increase overall thermal comfort by heating one body part in a room with ambient temperature of 19.5 ℃. Statistical analysis indicated that there is significant difference between heating and recovery period for all the body parts tested in this experiment. Heating pelvis led to a satisfaction rate of 91.3% which is above the ASHRAE standard limit of 80%. Upper leg and chest heating also provide proper thermal comfort for 82.6% and 80.9% of participants. The results indicate that these body parts could help more than 80% of occupants to reach proper overall thermal comfort.
Tailored Comfort: Revealing Targeted Body Parts for Energy-Efficient Localized Heating and Cooling Systems
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2631-3801
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7902-7913
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3132-2702
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4015-236X
Localized and individualized systems provide targeted heating or cooling to specific body parts without changing the air temperature in the room. This can lead to significant energy savings as well as improving thermal comfort. Local radiant heating systems could be considered an alternative to traditional heating systems because they can directly heat specific body parts while consuming less energy than traditional systems. Also, they have the potential to overcome the problem of traditional systems and achieve standard limits for thermal comfort. One of the most important challenges in using local systems is finding the proper body parts with the most influence on the whole-body thermal condition. This paper attempts to determine which body parts should be targeted in local systems through experimental investigation, by gathering thermal comfort answers from 45 participants when heating different body parts. Results indicated that using local radiant heating could increase overall thermal comfort by heating one body part in a room with ambient temperature of 19.5 ℃. Statistical analysis indicated that there is significant difference between heating and recovery period for all the body parts tested in this experiment. Heating pelvis led to a satisfaction rate of 91.3% which is above the ASHRAE standard limit of 80%. Upper leg and chest heating also provide proper thermal comfort for 82.6% and 80.9% of participants. The results indicate that these body parts could help more than 80% of occupants to reach proper overall thermal comfort.
Tailored Comfort: Revealing Targeted Body Parts for Energy-Efficient Localized Heating and Cooling Systems
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2631-3801
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7902-7913
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3132-2702
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4015-236X
Localized and individualized systems provide targeted heating or cooling to specific body parts without changing the air temperature in the room. This can lead to significant energy savings as well as improving thermal comfort. Local radiant heating systems could be considered an alternative to traditional heating systems because they can directly heat specific body parts while consuming less energy than traditional systems. Also, they have the potential to overcome the problem of traditional systems and achieve standard limits for thermal comfort. One of the most important challenges in using local systems is finding the proper body parts with the most influence on the whole-body thermal condition. This paper attempts to determine which body parts should be targeted in local systems through experimental investigation, by gathering thermal comfort answers from 45 participants when heating different body parts. Results indicated that using local radiant heating could increase overall thermal comfort by heating one body part in a room with ambient temperature of 19.5 ℃. Statistical analysis indicated that there is significant difference between heating and recovery period for all the body parts tested in this experiment. Heating pelvis led to a satisfaction rate of 91.3% which is above the ASHRAE standard limit of 80%. Upper leg and chest heating also provide proper thermal comfort for 82.6% and 80.9% of participants. The results indicate that these body parts could help more than 80% of occupants to reach proper overall thermal comfort.
Tailored Comfort: Revealing Targeted Body Parts for Energy-Efficient Localized Heating and Cooling Systems
Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
Berardi, Umberto (editor) / Hooshmand, Seyed Mohammad (author) / Mino-Rodriguez, Isabel (author) / Zhang, Hui (author) / Wagner, Andreas (author)
International Association of Building Physics ; 2024 ; Toronto, ON, Canada
2024-12-23
7 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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