Effects of air temperature, humidity, and air movement on thermal comfort under hot and humid conditions
- Ochanomizu Univ., Tokyo (Japan). Dept. of Human Environmental Engineering
- Waseda Univ., Tokyo (Japan). Dept. of Architecture
The purpose of this paper is to review and summarize the effects of air temperature, humidity, and air movement on thermal comfort under hot and humid conditions with a view toward energy conservation. Recently, ASHRAE published a new comfort envelope in Standard 55-1992. In that standard, the upper limit of relative humidity (RH) was wet at 60%. In hot and humid regions, humidity levels higher than 60% may often be observed. This upper limit of humidity is discussed based on their subjective data. In addition, the results show that under hot and humid conditions, air movement may be one of the least expensive methods of providing thermal comfort. The effect of air movement is also described in this paper.
- OSTI ID:
- 33305
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9406105-; TRN: IM9518%%126
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 1994 American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) annual meeting, Orlando, FL (United States), 25-29 Jun 1994; Other Information: PBD: 1994; Related Information: Is Part Of ASHRAE transactions 1994: Technical and symposium papers. Volume 100, Part 2; PB: 1372 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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