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Thermal Comfort Indices

Chaitali Basu, Shibanni Pandita

Abstract


Today the way we design buildings have produced many unexpected environmental problems,
and the new air conditioning technologies permitted control of situations which had
previously been accepted along with the rest of weather. The measurement of the thermal
indices is a very complex measure hence innumerous research has been done over the years
to find out the most desirable parameter of defining thermal comfort. Hence, ten papers were
studied with the aim of finding ‘optimum environment’ which would allow no discomfort and
produce maximum performance with minimum strain. The objectives are to compare and
contrast the findings not for ‘what is best?’, but ‘what is acceptable?’ The paper presents
study of both rational and adaptive thermal comfort. Together these findings suggest that if
the desired results are to be obtained the designer must be conscious of a number of factors
which psychologically affect human comfort like effective temperature, heat production,
moisture losses, air motion and humidity.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/jepd.v2i2.162

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