Advanced Thermal Comfort Studies

Topics: Thermal comfort, Relative humidity, Humidity Pages: 5 (806 words) Published: April 26, 2013
THERMAL DAIRY
By Carlos Val

Background
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In order to achieve a better understanding of the concept of Adaptive Thermal comfort I have recorded my thermal sensation by an hour intervals during a week. At this time, the relative humidity and temperature of my surrounding environment was been recorded by a sensor carried by me at all the time, every 900seconds.

Background
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A further thermal study of my living space was developed at the same time but carried out for a longer period. The data obtained from this survey is shown in the following slides.

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Comfort Feeling Diary Study Home Temperature & Relative Humidity Temperature & Relative Humidity Adaptative Thermal Comfort Graph

Procedure
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1) Set the methodology 2) Data record 3) Data Analysis 4) Conclusions extracted from the data analysis Recording Analyzing

Setting

Conclusion

Dates
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Personal logger
-Starting date -Closing date 10/Feb/2013 8:00:01 am 20/Feb/2013 15:42:00 pm

Home loggers
-Starting date -Closing date 10/02/2013 8:00:01 am 8/03/2013 15:42:00 pm

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Errata
There is a gap between the date of the data loggers and the current date. (starting date 9/1/2013 -- current date 10/2/2013). Being aware of this anecdotic incident, and once the required corrections are done, there is nothing else to comment about it.

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Dairy

Diary Example
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Logger 09/01/201 3 14:27 09/01/201 3 15:27 09/01/201 3 16:12 09/01/201 3 18:42 09/01/201 3 19:57 09/01/201 3 20:57 09/01/201 3 21:57 09/01/201 3 23:27 Recorded 14:26:00 15:24:00 16:10:00 18:36:00 19:59:00 21:00:00 21:54:00 23:20:00 T 24.11 23.11 23.61 22.61 22.61 22.61 22.61 22.61 RH 44.61 44.61 50.13 53.15 53.15 54.35 54.94 42.11 Felt 4 3 4 3 4 4 4 4 I'd Be 3 2 3 2 3 3 3 3 Where Bed living living living living living living Bed Met. Rate 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Clo. Lev. 0.5 0.8 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2

General Overview
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120 100 80 60 40 20 0 Temperaure Humidity

Temperature
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40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0

Temperaure

Relative Humidity
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120 100

80

60

40

20

0

Relative Humidity

Diary Records
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7 Hot 6 Warm 5 Slightly Warm 4 Neutral 3 Slightly cool 2 Cool 1 Cold 5 Much Cooler 4 Slightly Cooler 3 No Change 2 Slightly Warmer 1 Much Warmer

8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 How I Feel I'd like to be

Rated ‘’4’’
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Comfort Environment
80.00 70.00 60.00 50.00 40.00 30.00 20.00 10.00 0.00 0 10 20 Temp 30 Hum 40 50 60

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Home Survey

Floor plan
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Home Histogram

0 09/01/2013 08:01 09/01/2013 21:31 10/01/2013 11:01 11/01/2013 00:31 11/01/2013 14:01 12/01/2013 03:31 12/01/2013 17:01 13/01/2013 06:31 13/01/2013 20:01 14/01/2013 09:31 14/01/2013 23:01 15/01/2013 12:31 16/01/2013 02:01 16/01/2013 15:31 17/01/2013 05:01 17/01/2013 18:31 18/01/2013 08:01 18/01/2013 21:31 19/01/2013 11:01 20/01/2013 00:31 20/01/2013 14:01 21/01/2013 03:31 21/01/2013 17:01 22/01/2013 06:31 22/01/2013 20:01 23/01/2013 09:31 23/01/2013 23:01 24/01/2013 12:31 25/01/2013 02:01 25/01/2013 15:31 26/01/2013 05:01 26/01/2013 18:31 27/01/2013 08:01 27/01/2013 21:31 28/01/2013 11:01 29/01/2013 00:31 29/01/2013 14:01 30/01/2013 03:31 30/01/2013 17:01 31/01/2013 06:31 31/01/2013 20:01 01/02/2013 09:31 01/02/2013 23:01 02/02/2013 12:31 03/02/2013 02:01 03/02/2013 15:31 04/02/2013 05:01 04/02/2013 18:31 05/02/2013 08:01 Liv Kit Ext Hall Bed 2 Bed 1

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Average temperatures by room
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Bed1 Bed2 Ext Hal Kitchen Living 21.84 20.61 18.68 22.19 21.81

6.76

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