On assuming Mean Radiant Temperature equal to air temperature during PMV-based thermal comfort study in air-conditioned buildings

• Main Authors: Chaudhuri, Tanaya, Soh, Yeng Chai, Bose, Sumanta, Xie, Lihua, Li, Hua
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: mean radiant temperature; comfort level determination
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/80697; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/42211
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Mean Radiant Temperature (MRT) is an important factor of Fanger's PMV model, which is the most popular method to study human thermal comfort. However, it has often been a practice to assume MRT equal to air temperature (Ta) during indoor thermal studies. In this paper, we have studied the conse...