Personal comfort systems: A review on comfort, energy, and economics
Reviewartikel, 2020

Conventional heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems are designed to condition the entire building volume. In contrast, Personal Comfort Systems (PCS) target conditioning only the occupied zones of the space, while maintaining the remaining volume at a relatively under-conditioned state. PCS offer the occupants the choice of modulating their immediate thermal ambience with local controls. The individual-level control helps in improving the subjective thermal and air quality acceptability with the desired thermal sensation. This review paper details on the various types of heating, cooling, ventilation, heating with ventilation, and cooling with ventilation PCS devices. It summarises the thermal ambience created by the respective PCS devices and the resultant subjective responses of the occupants. This review also identifies the energy saving potential of various kinds of PCS devices, the power use of PCS devices, and discusses their economic viability.

Air quality

Personal comfort systems

Economics

Energy efficiency

Thermal comfort

Författare

Rajan Rawal

CEPT University

Marcel Schweiker

Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Ongun Berk Kazanci

Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU)

Vishnu Vardhan

CEPT University

Quan Jin

Chalmers, Arkitektur och samhällsbyggnadsteknik, Byggnadsteknologi

Lin Duanmu

Dalian University of Technology

Energy and Buildings

0378-7788 (ISSN)

Vol. 214 109858

Välbefinnande för personalen och produktivitet i hållbara kontorsbyggnader: En tvärvetenskaplig studie om nyckelfaktorerna för inomhusmiljö kvalitet

Formas (FR-2018/0010), 2019-01-01 -- 2021-12-31.

Ämneskategorier

Samhällsbyggnadsteknik

Husbyggnad

DOI

10.1016/j.enbuild.2020.109858

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