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College students' subjective response to outdoor thermal environment in a severely cold climate city

  • Tianyu Xi
  • , Shu Wang
  • , Qiaochu Wang
  • , Xiaowei Lv
  • Harbin institute of technology

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Abstract

People's subjective response to outdoor thermal environment cannot be directly interpreted by environmental influence factors (temperature, humidity, radiation and wind, etc.), thus thermal comfort indexes (PET, UTCI, SET∗, PMV) were needed to evaluate impact of outdoor thermal environment on human beings. Due to the influence of people's adaptation, the reactions to environment varied by climate and locations, and many related researches have been carried out by researchers all of the world. This work aimed at studying on the colleague students' subjective response to outdoor thermal environment in winter in severely cold climate city. Questionnaire survey was carried out in university campus in Harbin, which is a typical severely cold climate city in China, and 553 effective questionnaires were collected totally. By choosing Physiological Equivalent Temperature (PET) as thermal comfort index, the relationship between thermal sensation vote (TSV) and Physiological Equivalent Temperature (PET) was analyzed. The result of this study was compared with a former study (more than 2000 samples) carried out in winter in Harbin before, and it was shown that, when PET equals to -8.7?, both of young colleague students (age rages from 18 to 24 years old) and the large scale samples (a wide covered age range) felt cool (TSV equals to -1.8). When PET was over -8.7?, the colleague students felt cooler while when PET was lower than -8.7?, they felt warmer, revealing that the young colleague students' thermal sensation was not sensitive as the result of large scale samples, conducting that the research of outdoor thermal comfort in winter in severely cold climate cities may also take people's age into consideration as influence factors.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTechnologies and Materials for Renewable Energy, Environment and Sustainability, TMREES 2019
EditorsChafic-Touma Salame, Auday Hattem Shaban, Panagiotis Papageorgas, Michel Aillerie
PublisherAmerican Institute of Physics Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9780735418639
DOIs
StatePublished - 17 Jul 2019
Externally publishedYes
EventInternational Conference on Technologies and Materials for Renewable Energy, Environment and Sustainability 2019, TMREES 2019 - Beirut, Lebanon
Duration: 10 Apr 201912 Apr 2019

Publication series

NameAIP Conference Proceedings
Volume2123
ISSN (Print)0094-243X
ISSN (Electronic)1551-7616

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Technologies and Materials for Renewable Energy, Environment and Sustainability 2019, TMREES 2019
Country/TerritoryLebanon
CityBeirut
Period10/04/1912/04/19

Keywords

  • Colleague students
  • Outdoor Thermal Environment
  • Severe cold regions
  • Winter

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