RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SKIN TEMPERATURE AND THERMAL COMFORT UNDER AIR-CONDITIONING ENVIRONMENTS
Skin is often known as the largest organ in the human body and contributes to maintain a constant body temperature through dilating or constricting the vessels in response to ambient temperature. Skin temperature, which usually appears in many thermal comfort models, is one of the most important factors that produce considerable influence on the thermal comfort sensation. Although some studies have reported the relationship between the mean body skin temperature and the thermal comfort under different indoor air conditions, they didnt clarify how the mean body skin temperature obtained. Meanwhile, they havent expounded the relationship between the partial body skin temperature and the thermal comfort of entire body. In this study, the measurement technologies of the mean body skin temperature are evaluated by the PMV equations that are usually used in the thermal comfort study. Experimental results show that the Burton (3 points) method of mean body skin temperature measurement is favorable for the PMV calculation. Meanwhile, the influence of thermal environment on the partial body skin temperatures is studied, and the partial thermal sensations under different air-conditioned environments are investigated through experiments.
Partial Mean Body skin temperature Thermal comfort
Ye YAO Zhiwei LIAN Weiwei LIU Chunxiao JIANG
Institution of Refrigeration & Cryogenics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai, China, 200240
国际会议
The 22nd International Congress of Refrigeration(第22届国际制冷大会)
北京
英文
2007-08-21（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）