Passive Cooling and Human Comfort

Primary Author(s)

Florida Solar Energy Center
Philip W. Fairey, Florida Solar Energy CenterFollow

Report Number

FSEC-DN-5-81

URL

http://publications.energyresearch.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/FSEC-DN-5-81.pdf

Keywords

Passive cooling; Human comfort; Building comfort factors; Thermal comfort; Comfort zones; Psychological triggers in comfort

Abstract

Comfort within buildings is primarily controlled by four major factors: air temperature, mean radiant temperature, humidity and airflow. Each can have a dominating effect. Their effects are not necessarily additive and practically never linear. There are, additionally, other factors which affect comfort including clothing, activity level and climatization. Some psychological triggers, such as certain colors, also seem to affect comfort, and "state of mind" can have major effects on individual comfort sensations. Comfort zones, therefore, are very generally defined as the zone in which 80 percent of the population will experience the sensation of thermal comfort.

Date Published

12-7-1981

Identifiers

1498

Subjects

Buildings--Thermal properties; Human comfort; Upper air temperature; Humidity; Air flow; Psychological aspects

Local Subjects

Passive Solar

Creator (Linked Data)

Fairey, Philip W. [LC]

Collection

FSEC Energy Research Center® Collection

STARS Citation

Florida Solar Energy Center and Fairey, Philip W., "Passive Cooling and Human Comfort" (1981). FSEC Energy Research Center®. 1498.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fsec/1498