Earth Notes: General Bibliography (jenkins2023ASHRAE55)

• [jenkins2023ASHRAE55] Meg Jenkins What Is ASHRAE 55? Basics of Thermal Comfort (accessed 2024-02-19), 2023 (www) (BibTeX).
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  With the surge of climate change and the global push to become more energy efficient in all aspects of life including building ventilation, thermal comfort has become a hotly (pun intended) debated issue in recent years. The purpose of the ASHRAE 55 standard (published by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers) is to specify the various combinations of indoor thermal environmental factors as well as personal factors that will produce thermal environmental conditions acceptable to a majority of the occupants within a space.
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  [Quote: "ASHRAE 55 defines thermal comfort as 'that condition of mind that expresses satisfaction with the thermal environment', and is used primarily in the United States but is well known around the world as the standard for designing, commissioning, and testing indoor spaces and systems written in parallel with other well known international standards such as ISO 7730." Mentions: Clo - the thermal insulation from clothing, M/MET - metabolic rate, RH - Relative Humidity, tr - mean radiant temperature, PMV - Predicted Mean Vote, PPD - Predicted Percentage of Dissatisfied. Quote: "The comfort zone is considered to be sufficiently comfortable if at least 80% of its occupants can be expected to not object to the ambient condition, meaning that the majority are between -0.5 and 0.5 on the PMV scale."]