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Comfort assessment of radiant cooling in building in tropical climate |
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| Title | Comfort assessment of radiant cooling in building in tropical climate |
| Creator | 1. Satinee Wattanakit 2. Surapong Chirarattananon 3. Pipat Chaiwiwatworakul |
| Publisher | Joint Graduate School of Energy and Environment |
| Publication Year | 2557 |
| Keyword | Thermal comfort, Radiant cooling, Predicted mean vote |
| Abstract | Radiant cooling is an alternative air-conditioning approach that has been successfully implemented in high latitude regions. In the tropics, radiant cooling is quite challenge due to its cooling performance being limited by high-moisture ambient air. This paper reports an investigation of radiant cooling in a tropical building. The study comprises physical experiments of a radiant cooling system with cooling panels installed in a room of a laboratory building. A dedicated outdoor air system using a fan coil unit was also installed to handle humidity of the room air through ventilation. A TRNSYS software was used to model the systems in order to determine the thermal comfort level in the room using predicted mean vote (PMV) index. The results show that the radiant cooling is able to use for air conditioning for human comfort in tropical buildings. |
| ISBN | 978-616-92228-1-1 |
