The Impact of Daily Behavior Patterns on the Thermal Comfort of Human Bodies in Rural Heating Houses of Northern China

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10.2991/icseee-15.2016.187How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Kang; Burning cave; Radiators driven by mini-stove; Human activities; Exergy efficiency

Abstract

Nowadays, traditional heating systems represented by kang still impact people’s daily life profoundly in rural areas of northern China. While residents in the case of different activities in rooms respectively heated by different heating methods, the heat transfer quantity and exergy efficiency of each heating system have been calculated and the more comfortable posture for a person has been confirmed. Based on theoretical calculations, the variation coefficient of indoor air temperature in a room heated by kang and burning cave is only 0.28, which was the smallest among all the conditions, suggesting that its indoor thermal stability is best as well as its indoor thermal comfort, and the heat a human body obtains is the highest by the position of laying supine on the kang plate, 24.32W. However, the lowest radiant heat of a human body is 4.36W while the man stands on the ground in a room heated only by kang. Through comparison, exergy efficiency of the burning cave integrated with kang is 55%, with a largest application potential.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xueyan Zhang
AU  - Bin Chen
PY  - 2016/04
DA  - 2016/04
TI  - The Impact of Daily Behavior Patterns on the Thermal Comfort of Human Bodies in Rural Heating Houses of Northern China
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 4th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environmental Engineering
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1053
EP  - 1057
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icseee-15.2016.187
DO  - 10.2991/icseee-15.2016.187
ID  - Zhang2016/04
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