Thermal comfort and indoor air quality in rooms with integrated personalized ventilation and under-floor air distribution systems

HVAC and R Research

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 829-846

  Li, Ruixin ^a,b   Sekhar, S C ^a   Melikov, A K ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR DISTRIBUTION; AIR DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; AIR TEMPERATURE; BODY SEGMENT; COMPREHENSIVE STUDIES; EQUIVALENT TEMPERATURE; FACE REGIONS; FACIAL REGIONS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMAN RESPONSE; HUMAN SUBJECT EXPERIMENTS; HUMAN SUBJECTS; INDOOR AIR QUALITY; MIXING VENTILATION; OUTDOOR AIR; PERCEIVED AIR QUALITY; PERSONALIZED VENTILATION; PHYSICAL MEASUREMENT; PRIMARY AIR-HANDLING UNIT; QUALITY INDICES; ROOM AIR; SUPPLY AIR TEMPERATURE; TERMINAL DEVICES; THERMAL MANIKIN; THERMAL SENSATIONS;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHAMBERS; EXPERIMENTS; FLOORS; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; THERMAL COMFORT; VENTILATION;

AIR;

EID: 84861621904     PISSN: 10789669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10789669.2010.544834     Document Type: Article

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