Evaluation Model of Specific Indoor Environment Overall Comfort Based on Effective-Function Method

Tieming Guo, Songtao Hu and Guodan Liu
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Tieming Guo: School of Environmental and Municipal Engineering, Qingdao University of Technology, Qingdao 266033, China
Songtao Hu: School of Environmental and Municipal Engineering, Qingdao University of Technology, Qingdao 266033, China
Guodan Liu: School of Environmental and Municipal Engineering, Qingdao University of Technology, Qingdao 266033, China

Energies, 2017, vol. 10, issue 10, 1-16

Abstract: The indoor overall environmental comfort of part limited spaces is studied in this paper. The operative temperature, illumination, and noise intensity are used as objective parameters in order to evaluate the thermal, luminous, and acoustic environment. The thermal, luminous, and acoustic environment are investigated by using the subjective questionnaire in this experiment, and the function relation of the single physical parameter is established. Then, using the effective-function comprehensive evaluation carries on non-dimensional, weighting, and penalty substitution synthesis for the evaluation index of thermal, luminous, and acoustic environment, and establishes the evaluation model of the indoor overall environment. According to the experimental results and evaluation analysis, it is considered that the noise intensity and operative temperature have great influence on the indoor environment overall comfort and the illumination has less effect. Referring to the ISO7730 standard and combining it with the situation of our country, the indoor overall environment is divided into the zone of comfort. The predicted overall comfort vote (POCV), which is greater than or equal to ?0.5 is the high comfort zone I. The area of ?0.5 > POCV ? ?1.0 is designated as low comfort zone II. It provides a certain basis for the evaluation of indoor overall environmental comfort.

Keywords: thermal environment; luminous environment; acoustic environment; effective-function comprehensive evaluation; predicted overall comfort vote (POCV) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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