Can personal control influence human thermal comfort? A field study in residential buildings in China in winter
Can personal control influence human thermal comfort? A field study in residential buildings in China in winter
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DOI：
10.1016/j.enbuild.2013.12.057
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发表时间：
2014-04-01
影响因子：
6.7
通讯作者：
Zhu, Yingxin
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作者：
Luo, Maohui;Cao, Bin;Zhu, Yingxin
由于气候变化的推动和相应的节能需求，自适应舒适模型已逐渐成为热舒适研究的热点，代表了过去几十年来该领域最广泛的变化之一。然而，适应性模式背后的机制，特别是某些关键假设，仍需要进一步澄清。为了更有力地支持这一假设，即具有更大的个人控制能力的人倾向于接受更广泛的室内热环境，我们设计了一项调查研究，其中住宅公寓的居住者对他们的空间加热系统有不同程度的个人控制。通过统计分析各组的热响应，观察到相当大的差异，在热舒适性，虽然在实验组的居住者经历了相当相似的舒适相关的热参数。结果表明，与没有个人控制能力的人相比，有个人控制能力的人的中性T-op降低了2.6 ℃，并且对改变当前热条件的期望较低。这些发现为自适应模型提供了支持，并可为设计更高效的空间供暖系统提供有价值的参考。2014爱思唯尔有限公司版权所有。
Due to the impetus of climate change and the consequential need to conserve energy, the adaptive comfort model has gradually become a popular focus of thermal comfort research, representing one of the most sweeping changes across the field in the past few decades. However, the mechanism behind the adaptive model, especially with regard to certain key hypotheses, still requires further clarification. To offer more solid support for the hypothesis that people with greater personal control tend to accept wider ranges of indoor thermal environments, we designed an investigational study in which occupants in residential apartments had different degrees of personal control over their space heating systems. Through statistical analysis of the thermal responses of each group, considerable differences in thermal comfort were observed, although occupants in the experimental groups experienced quite similar comfort-related thermal parameters. The results show that occupants with personal control had 2.6 degrees C lower neutral T-op and expressed lower expectation to change their current thermal conditions than those without the capability of personal control. These findings provide support for the adaptive model and can serve as a valuable reference for the design of more efficient space heating systems. 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.