Thermal comfort of female students in an air-conditioning laboratory / Noor Hafizah Abdul Halim

In order to achieve the thermal comfort, there are several factors that need to be studied and understand. For this research, the factor is environmental factors such as air temperature, relative humidity, mean radiant temperature, and air velocity. Other factor is personal factor such as activity l...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Abdul Halim, Noor Hafizah
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2009
Subjects:
Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/46201/1/46201.pdf
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
id my-uitm-ir.46201
record_format uketd_dc
spelling my-uitm-ir.462012022-11-11T03:41:11Z Thermal comfort of female students in an air-conditioning laboratory / Noor Hafizah Abdul Halim 2009 Abdul Halim, Noor Hafizah Temperature Thermal conductivity In order to achieve the thermal comfort, there are several factors that need to be studied and understand. For this research, the factor is environmental factors such as air temperature, relative humidity, mean radiant temperature, and air velocity. Other factor is personal factor such as activity level (met-value) and clothing insulation (clo-value). In this research, it was found that the temperature range for students was from 22° C to 24°C which was almost the same as the acceptable air temperature for thermal comfort in airconditioned room which is 21°C. For relative humidity, the RH range was from 52% to 58%. The humidity become higher whiles the temperature increasing. In this case, the humidity was lower because the temperature was low in air-conditioned room. The mean radiant temperature is considered as the same as air temperature. The range value of air velocity was between 0.05 m/s and 0.22 m/s which were quite the same as the acceptable air velocity in air-conditioned room. Thermal comfort study is a research that needs to be done continuously. Thermal comfort is due to climate that always changing depends on the weather. But it is if in the outdoor room. In this research, it is due to the airconditioning system whether it is functioning or not. This studied need to be done from time to time in order to get the latest thermal comfort parameters value. In taking the data needed, the latest and acquire equipments need to be used. For that, thermal comfort study would be better and accurate. 2009 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/46201/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/46201/1/46201.pdf text en public degree Universiti Teknologi MARA Faculty of Applied Sciences Zain Ahmed, Azni (Prof Dr.)
institution Universiti Teknologi MARA
collection UiTM Institutional Repository
language English
advisor Zain Ahmed, Azni (Prof Dr.)
topic Temperature
Thermal conductivity
spellingShingle Temperature
Thermal conductivity
Abdul Halim, Noor Hafizah
Thermal comfort of female students in an air-conditioning laboratory / Noor Hafizah Abdul Halim
description In order to achieve the thermal comfort, there are several factors that need to be studied and understand. For this research, the factor is environmental factors such as air temperature, relative humidity, mean radiant temperature, and air velocity. Other factor is personal factor such as activity level (met-value) and clothing insulation (clo-value). In this research, it was found that the temperature range for students was from 22° C to 24°C which was almost the same as the acceptable air temperature for thermal comfort in airconditioned room which is 21°C. For relative humidity, the RH range was from 52% to 58%. The humidity become higher whiles the temperature increasing. In this case, the humidity was lower because the temperature was low in air-conditioned room. The mean radiant temperature is considered as the same as air temperature. The range value of air velocity was between 0.05 m/s and 0.22 m/s which were quite the same as the acceptable air velocity in air-conditioned room. Thermal comfort study is a research that needs to be done continuously. Thermal comfort is due to climate that always changing depends on the weather. But it is if in the outdoor room. In this research, it is due to the airconditioning system whether it is functioning or not. This studied need to be done from time to time in order to get the latest thermal comfort parameters value. In taking the data needed, the latest and acquire equipments need to be used. For that, thermal comfort study would be better and accurate.
format Thesis
qualification_level Bachelor degree
author Abdul Halim, Noor Hafizah
author_facet Abdul Halim, Noor Hafizah
author_sort Abdul Halim, Noor Hafizah
title Thermal comfort of female students in an air-conditioning laboratory / Noor Hafizah Abdul Halim
title_short Thermal comfort of female students in an air-conditioning laboratory / Noor Hafizah Abdul Halim
title_full Thermal comfort of female students in an air-conditioning laboratory / Noor Hafizah Abdul Halim
title_fullStr Thermal comfort of female students in an air-conditioning laboratory / Noor Hafizah Abdul Halim
title_full_unstemmed Thermal comfort of female students in an air-conditioning laboratory / Noor Hafizah Abdul Halim
title_sort thermal comfort of female students in an air-conditioning laboratory / noor hafizah abdul halim
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi MARA
granting_department Faculty of Applied Sciences
publishDate 2009
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/46201/1/46201.pdf
_version_ 1783734747673919488