A guide to thermal comfort

✍ Scribed by Donald McIntyre

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1973
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 603 KB
• Volume: 4
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-6870
• DOI: 10.1016/0003-6870(73)90079-3

✦ Synopsis

This guide provides a simple design procedure for dealing with the requirements for a comfortable thermal environment. From the expected activity level and clothing insulation of the people concerned, a subjective temperature is calculated which will provide thermal comfort. This subjective temperature is a combination of physical parameters of the environment, ie, air and mean radiant temperatures, and air speed. A heating system must be designed to that the parameters combine to give the optimum subjective temperature. The guide also considers other possible sources of discomfort, and gives acceptable limits for them.