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Thermal comfort assessment in elderly care center and its health effect / Umi Atiqah Omar

Thermal comfort is known as comfort of human in the environment and subjective matter to measure. There are two type of thermal factors that contributed to the thermal comfort in environment and building, which are personal factors and environmental factors. The personal factors included metabolic r...

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Main Author: Omar, Umi Atiqah
Format: Student Project
Language:English
Published: 2018
Subjects:
Heat
Temperature
Transmission. Heat transfer
Heating and ventilation. Air conditioning
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spelling my.uitm.ir.456732021-04-30T02:44:15Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/45673/ Thermal comfort assessment in elderly care center and its health effect / Umi Atiqah Omar Omar, Umi Atiqah Heat Temperature Transmission. Heat transfer Heating and ventilation. Air conditioning Thermal comfort is known as comfort of human in the environment and subjective matter to measure. There are two type of thermal factors that contributed to the thermal comfort in environment and building, which are personal factors and environmental factors. The personal factors included metabolic rate (the human activities level) and clothing insulations. The environmental factors have parameters which are air temperature, radiant temperature, relative humidity, and humidity of air. Indoor thermal measurements and questionnaire on thermal comfort in the buildings was conducted in the elderly care centre (ECC). American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air- Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Standard 55 was used as a guideline to assess the thermal comfort in this study. The result indicates that the indoor thermal quality was not complied with the standard. The Thermal Sensation Vote (TSV) shows that occupants in ECC B facing thermal discomfort compared to the ECC A. The measurement for indoor thermal in the building showed that ECC A and B not comply with ASHRAE 55. This can be due to the building characteristic which defer between ECC A and ECC B. The clothing insulation for both ECCs showed that female prefer more clothes compare to man which female has higher mean for clothing insulations. Furthermore, occupants in both ECCs showed the health symptoms illness related to the thermal discomfort during staying in the ECC. This research should contribute to the baseline of thermal comforts and related to health effects in the buildings to provide thermal comfort when live in the building especially to susceptible groups. 2018 Student Project NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/45673/1/45673.pdf Omar, Umi Atiqah (2018) Thermal comfort assessment in elderly care center and its health effect / Umi Atiqah Omar. [Student Project] (Unpublished)
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topic Heat
Temperature
Transmission. Heat transfer
Heating and ventilation. Air conditioning
spellingShingle Heat
Temperature
Transmission. Heat transfer
Heating and ventilation. Air conditioning
Omar, Umi Atiqah
Thermal comfort assessment in elderly care center and its health effect / Umi Atiqah Omar
description Thermal comfort is known as comfort of human in the environment and subjective matter to measure. There are two type of thermal factors that contributed to the thermal comfort in environment and building, which are personal factors and environmental factors. The personal factors included metabolic rate (the human activities level) and clothing insulations. The environmental factors have parameters which are air temperature, radiant temperature, relative humidity, and humidity of air. Indoor thermal measurements and questionnaire on thermal comfort in the buildings was conducted in the elderly care centre (ECC). American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air- Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Standard 55 was used as a guideline to assess the thermal comfort in this study. The result indicates that the indoor thermal quality was not complied with the standard. The Thermal Sensation Vote (TSV) shows that occupants in ECC B facing thermal discomfort compared to the ECC A. The measurement for indoor thermal in the building showed that ECC A and B not comply with ASHRAE 55. This can be due to the building characteristic which defer between ECC A and ECC B. The clothing insulation for both ECCs showed that female prefer more clothes compare to man which female has higher mean for clothing insulations. Furthermore, occupants in both ECCs showed the health symptoms illness related to the thermal discomfort during staying in the ECC. This research should contribute to the baseline of thermal comforts and related to health effects in the buildings to provide thermal comfort when live in the building especially to susceptible groups.
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author Omar, Umi Atiqah
author_facet Omar, Umi Atiqah
author_sort Omar, Umi Atiqah
title Thermal comfort assessment in elderly care center and its health effect / Umi Atiqah Omar
title_short Thermal comfort assessment in elderly care center and its health effect / Umi Atiqah Omar
title_full Thermal comfort assessment in elderly care center and its health effect / Umi Atiqah Omar
title_fullStr Thermal comfort assessment in elderly care center and its health effect / Umi Atiqah Omar
title_full_unstemmed Thermal comfort assessment in elderly care center and its health effect / Umi Atiqah Omar
title_sort thermal comfort assessment in elderly care center and its health effect / umi atiqah omar
publishDate 2018
url http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/45673/1/45673.pdf
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