Influence of Indoor Temperature and Humidity on Thermal Comfort and Energy Consumption of Air-Conditioning Systems

Taking a central air-conditioning system as an example,this paper presents the influence of indoor design temperature and relative humidity on thermal comfort and energy consumption in an office building in Guangzhou,P.R.China.The study shows that under the identical indoor thermal comfort conditions,the air-conditioning system cooling load increases with the increase of indoor temperature.Increasing the indoor temperature can not decrease energy consumption.In order to reduce the energy consumption in a central air-conditioning system meeting the required indoor thermal comfort condition,an indoor design condition with larger relative humidity and lower temperature is recommended.     

Operational Parameters of Hybrid Radiant Cooling Floor and Displacement Ventilation Air Conditioning System

The simulation model of hybrid radiant cooling floor and displacement ventilation air conditioning system was built and analyzed by software EnergyPlus. By comparing the simulation results and experimental data, it is shown that the simulated indoor air temperature and cooling capacity provided by radiant floor was ±7% deviated from the experimental data. Based on the model, with the change of supply air parameters or supply water parameters, the cooling capacity provided by radiant floor and displacement ventilation, surface temperature of radiant floor, indoor air average temperature, AUST temperature were obtained. Combined with the indoor thermal comfort model, when indoor thermal comfort index PMV varied between -0.5 and 0.5, the recommended supply air and supply water parameters were obtained to provide reference for engineering design and application.     

Influence of Indoor Thermal Environment on Thermal Comfort of Human Body

Analyses the thermal environment parameters from physiological aspect and from psychological aspect respectively. Introduces the conception of thermal comfort of human body from heat balance aspect. Presents some measures to improve indoor thermal environment and advance thermal comfort of human body. Analyses the influence of indoor thermal environment on thermal comfort of human body and some questions on the aspect of this research, also puts forward some advices.     

Design of Rural Residence Based on Thermal Comfort: A Case Study of Chengdu Area

With the improvement of living standards, peasants have attached increasing attention to quality of living environment, indoor thermal comfort of rural residence has become a functional need of new countryside residence. Chengdu is a foggy area with shorter sunshine hours, humid air, more foggy but fewer windy days, so local residence is likely to be muggy, which influences comfort of residents seriously. According to relevant researches, most rural residences in Chengdu use only natural ventilation, and the indoor thermal comfort is poor. In view of this, this paper tried to improve indoor thermal comfort and quality of living environment from the perspective of residence functional design.     

居住建筑室内热环境低能耗营造的多目标设计方法

人居环境改善涉及重大民生问题,节能减排是国家重大战略。因此,有必要寻求合理的居住建筑设计方法,使设计方案既满足居民的室内热舒适需求又能降低建筑能耗。基于多目标遗传优化算法,建立能够对建筑设计方案进行优化、实现增加室内热舒适时间比例的同时降低建筑全年冷热负荷的居住建筑设计双目标优化模型。最后,以重庆典型户型为实例进行优化,优化后的设计方案建筑全年冷热负荷降低了47.74%,室内热舒适时间比例提高了3.94%,验证了模型的可行性和准确性。     

Application of Indoor Natural Ventilation Simulation in Residential Space Layout

Tatural ventilation of indoor air flow and thermal comfort space plays an important role, especial y in the interior design of passive cooling factors, indoor space layout, and the location of doors, windows and other factors on the indoor natural ventilation effect has great influence. Using the method of fluid mechanics, and Airpak3.0 software, indoor natural ventilation for residential buildings was simulated, and the thermal comfort of indoor natural ventilation in a residential building in Xuzhou City was analyzed to explore the effect of indoor spatial layout, location of doors, window opening types on indoor natural ventilation. The results showed that indoor spatial layout played an essential role in indoor natural ventilation, application of numerical simulation for the simulation of the indoor natural ventilation and assessment of indoor natural ventilation effect was a scientific instruction for the indoor spatial design.     

冬季室内热环境与被褥微气候的匹配

冬季睡眠状态下,室内热环境与被褥微气候分别对人体头部和被覆躯体的热感觉造成直接影响。为了分析两个热环境的匹配关系以满足睡眠人体的热舒适水平,实验在不同的室内温度下,调节被褥微气候温度,测试了受试者的皮肤温度,并记录了热感觉和热可接受水平。研究结果表明:睡眠状态下,相比于室内热环境,人体热感觉对被褥微气候更敏感;此外,通过分析室内热环境和被褥微气候分别与整体热感觉和整体不满意率的关系,得到了睡眠热环境舒适区间。     

Discussion on the Application Range of the PMV Equation

With the attention to the comfort degree of living environment, the phenomenon of making use of the PMV -PPD index within the ISO7730 standard to evaluate the indoor thermal comfort degree is more and more widespread. Many papers about indoor thermal environment are based on the PMV - PPD index as the reference or basis to research and analyze. But few people understand and pay attention to the application range of the PMV - PPD index. So some people misuse and abuse the PMV index and deduce some inaccurate conclusions. In this thesis, based on the analysis of the process of deducing PMV equation, the phenomenon that PMV index is different from the fact in the high temperature condition is explained; furthermore the application range of the PMV equation is confirmed. So to obtain the scientific and reasonable evaluation and conclusion in the process of research of the thermal comfort degree can be ensured.     

Ventilation regulating methods adapting by climate for residential housing

To study the climatic control strategies of the residential building indoor acceptable thermal environment, firstly, based on adaptive model, integrated indoor activities, clothes and spot investigation on air velocity of residential building, this paper calculates an acceptable temperature range. Secondly, through state-space techniques, common passive regulating technologies in residential building have been simulated, including different ventilation rates and divided-period setting ventilation effect on indoor temperature. Meanwhile, monthly regulating methods for ventilation have been proposed. Thirdly, through ventilation technology, effective regulating zone of outdoor climate parameters have been analyzed, which is combined with hythergraph of outdoor temperature, humidity, solar radiation and air velocity. Taking the characteristics of the human thermal comfort adaptability into consideration, the energy-saving potential of the study results is also analyzed.     

Capillary Floor Radiant Heating System of Rural Residential Building in Chongqing

The indoor environment in this zone, not officially assigned as a traditional heating zone, is cold and humid with poor thermal comfort in winter. Investments and surveys the status of heat consumers in rural residential buildings in Chongqing, intending     

Research on Comfort Index of Gan-Lan Dwellings in LongSheng Area of Guangxi Province,Guilin City

The research on architectures with ethnic characteristics increase both domestic and abroad, and one of the important objectives of which is to find whether there is good adaptability between the space and forms of architecture and area climatic conditions, In this paper, through the field measurement of parameters and meteorological data of stilt style architecture of the minorities in Guilin of Guangxi province and ordinary residential building, and using Design-Builder simulation software to model, conducting the CFD simulation, thermal environment inside the building and indoor temperatures of the whole year were obtained, then we calculated that thermal comfort index inside the building for the full year. Comparing the simulation results, we concluded that thermal environment inside the building and thermal comfort index of stilt style architecture significantly outperformed the ordinary ones. Stilt style architectures are more suitable to the climates in Guangxi province. At present, the research of stilt style architecture is still at an early age, and this paper can provide basis for the research on the energy saving technology of stilt style architecture.     

南方建筑非透明围护结构热工与节能设计

如何兼顾冬夏两季建筑供暖空调负荷和能耗,保证室内热环境质量,确定最适宜的热工特性,是长期困扰中国南方建筑围护结构热工与节能设计的难点。通过对夏热冬冷和夏热冬暖地区建筑在采暖、空调与自然通风条件下动态热过程的分析,研究了这一地区围护结构热特性与能耗的制约关系,以及对室内热环境与建筑热稳定性的作用机理。在兼顾冬季保温与夏季隔热的情况下,将建筑全年能耗作为控制目标,从室内热环境质量、节能效果、围护结构的安全性、可靠性、经济性和实用性等角度评价目前所采用的围护结构节能技术存在的问题,提出一种适宜南方气候的建筑围护结构热特性指标及构造形式。     

Experimental Comparison of Low-temperature Hydraulic Heating Floor and Heat Pump Air-conditioning

In this paper the low-temperature hydraulic floor heating system of a residence in Chongqing was tested. The influence of this system and the heat pump air conditioning system on indoor thermal comfort and operation cost was analyzed and compared. The effect of heat dissipation by radiation and convention of the floor was analyzed. It shows the feasibility and advantage of floor heating system in Yangtse River Region.     

Condition monitoring and mistake precaution system for power strap based on photoelectric detection

Thermal environment is analyzed based on the field measurements of indoor and outdoor temperature and humidity of a typical Tibetan traditional dwelling in a village of Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu province in winter and summer. Results show that the combination of local factors such as history, geography, climate, unique local-style dwelling houses building structure and monomer structure. The structure (envelope)of traditional Tibetan dwelling has a good thermal performance. Passive methods should be used to build thermal environment constructions. Further improvement for indoor thermal comfort conditions through comprehensive and energy-saving heating are needed.     

Electre Multi-Attribute Evaluation Model to the Operating Performance of Air Conditioning Systems

An ELECTRE performance evaluation model was developed to outrank the different operating conditions of air conditioning systems. Five evaluation criteria covers total energy consumption, thermal comfort PMV and PPD, indoor air quality indices such as CO2 concentration and TVOC concentration. The performance under seven different operating conditions was outranked on the TRNSYS (transient system) simulation platform. Three assignment alternatives of weight coefficients were selected to calculate the relevant credibility scores respectively. The results indicate that the proposed evaluation model can outrank the different operating conditions and select the optimum one, Moreover different weight assignments have little influence on the outranking scores. Further investigation should focus on the more evaluating criteria such as control performance and others in the comprehensive evaluation of operating conditions.     

Indoor Thermal Environment for Green Roof

Roof planting is widely recognized as a ecological thermal insulation for roof. A lightweight green roof in climatic conditions of shanghai was investigated as a case study by applying PMV index to calculate thermal comfort compared with that with traditional roof in air conditioning. It is found that the PMV value of green roof is 0.2 lower than that of traditional roof, while the fluctuating range of green roof was only 1/4 of that of traditional roof. And the equivalent thermal insulating roof of green roof was obtained by computing. Furthermore, it is shown that green roof has lower interior surface temperature than equivalent insulating roof in the condition of higher indoor temperature.     

Heat Transfer Performance of Capillary Mats Using Wet Construction in Winter

For the capillary mats using wet construction, a winter experiment designed to investigate the heat transfer performance was described, and the heat transfer performance analysis which contains the comparisons between different pipe space and different thickness of cement mortar surface was carried out. As a result, compared with that of the traditional radiant heating pipes, the capillary mats of wet construction require supply water with lower temperature, and it shows good heat transfer performance and system energy efficiency as well. According to the demand of indoor heat dissipation and human comfort as well as the coupling relationship between the temperature of supply water and surface construction thickness, it is suggested that the proper construction method should be comprehensively considered in practical applications.     

Layout Optimization of Riverside Residential Area Based on Thermal Comfort: A Case Study of Nanhua Village,Shenzhen

Based on the previous researches on building layout with thermal comfort, this paper Stud Shenzhen Nanhua Village to explore the way of using building layout to change thermal environment of riverfront residential areas. The results showed that a more comfortable outdoor thermal environment could be obtained by applying proper building layouts favorable for the thermal comfort of the Nanhua Village. It proves again that efficient and feasible building layout, which is suitable for a river microclimate, is important in improving thermal comfort of a riverside residential area. The study also provides a good example for the future architectural designs of a riverside residential area for obtaining thermal comfort.     

Effect of Moisture on Indoor Thermal Environment

In the past, the temperature was used as the sole quota to control the indoor thermal environment in hot summer and cold winter areas of China, but a major quota, the relative air moisture, was often ignored. In this paper, the effect of relative air moisture on indoor thermal environment is analyzed. The results show that the energy consumption can be reduced and comfortable thermal environment can be provided under natural condition by regulating the indoor moisture.     

办公楼室内环境品质控制与优化

室内办公环境品质直接影响办公室中人员的工作效率和健康,需要进行有效地控制和优化,以保证其舒适性、低能耗和健康的要求。以某办公室为对象,研究了室内环境品质各参数和控制量之间的关系,建立了室内环境品质双线性模型。利用实验数据进行了模型验证,结果表明：模型输出能较好拟合实际情况;并基于模型预测方法进行室内环境品质控制,通过夏季工况仿真实验证明了提出方法比传统控制方式具有更小的稳态误差和较小的超调性,且更加节能。