Linlan Chang¹, Win-Jet Luo^1,2, Indra Permana², Bowo Yuli Prasetyo³, Alya Penta Agharid¹, Fujen Wang^2,*

Energy Engineering, Vol.122, No.5, pp. 1771-1787, 2025, DOI:10.32604/ee.2025.062209 - 25 April 2025

Abstract Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems are critical for maintaining thermal comfort in office environments which also crucial for occupant well-being and productivity. This study investigates the impact of integrating ceiling fans with higher air conditioning setpoints on thermal comfort and energy efficiency in office environments. Field measurements and questionnaire surveys were conducted to evaluate thermal comfort and energy-saving potential under varying conditions. Results show that increasing the AC setpoint from 25°C to 27°C, combined with ceiling fan operation, reduced power consumption by 10%, achieving significant energy savings. Survey data confirmed that 85% of… More >

Shengqiang Shi^1,2,*, Abdelatif Merabtine³, Rachid Bennacer⁴, Julien Kauffmann²

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.20, No.8, pp. 1703-1716, 2024, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2024.050547 - 06 August 2024

Abstract At present, air handling units are usually used indoors to improve the indoor environment quality. However, while introducing fresh air to improve air quality, air velocity has a certain impact on the occupants’ thermal comfort. Therefore, it is necessary to explore the optimization of air-fluid-body interaction dynamics. In this study, the indoor air flow was changed by changing the opening and closing degree of the blower, and the thermal manikin is introduced to objectively evaluate the human thermal comfort under different air velocities. The main experimental results show that the air change rate increases with… More >

Ahmad Almadhor¹, Chitapong Wechtaisong^2,*, Usman Tariq³, Natalia Kryvinska^4,*, Abdullah Al Hejaili⁵, Uzma Ghulam Mohammad⁶, Mohana Alanazi⁷

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.48, No.3, pp. 855-856, 2024, DOI:10.32604/csse.2024.052412 - 20 May 2024

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Noureddine Abouricha^1,*, Ayoub Gounni², Mustapha El Alami²

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.22, No.1, pp. 359-375, 2024, DOI:10.32604/fhmt.2024.047632 - 21 March 2024

Abstract In this paper, experimental and numerical studies of heat transfer in a test local of side heated from below are presented and compared. All the walls, the rest of the floor and the ceiling are made from plywood and polystyrene in sandwich form ( plywood- polystyrene- plywood) just on one of the vertical walls contained a glazed door (). This local is heated during two heating cycles by a square plate of iron the width , which represents the heat source, its temperature is controlled. The plate is heated for two cycles by an adjustable… More >

Ahmad Almadhor¹, Chitapong Wechtaisong^2,*, Usman Tariq³, Natalia Kryvinska^4,*, Abdullah Al Hejaili⁵, Uzma Ghulam Mohammad⁶, Mohana Alanazi⁷

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.48, No.1, pp. 199-216, 2024, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.039546 - 26 January 2024

Abstract Thermal comfort is an essential component of smart cities that helps to upgrade, analyze, and realize intelligent buildings. It strongly affects human psychological and physiological levels. Residents of buildings suffer stress because of poor thermal comfort. Buildings frequently use Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems for temperature control. Better thermal states directly impact people’s productivity and health. This study revealed a human thermal comfort model that makes better predictions of thermal sensation by identifying essential features and employing a tuned Extra Tree classifier, MultiLayer Perceptron (MLP) and Naive Bayes (NB) models. The study employs More >

Marwa El Yassi^1,2,*, Ikram El Abbassi^1,2, Alexandre Pierre², Yannick Melinge³

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.19, No.5, pp. 1283-1290, 2023, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2022.023183 - 30 November 2022

Abstract Phase change materials (PCMs) have the ability to store thermal energy and make it available at a later stage to keep indoor temperature within a specific range and achieve better thermal comfort in buildings. This study focuses on the performances of materials obtained by combining a standard building material with a PCM. In particular, two different materials mixed with the same PCM are considered under the same climatic conditions. The related thermal behavior is assessed in the framework of numerical simulations conducted with ANSYS Fluent assuming parameters representative of a city located in Europe. The More >

Feriel Mustapha^1,2,*, Marwa El Yassi^1,2, Ikram El Abbassi^1,2, Abdelhak Kaci², Elhadj Kadri², A-Moumen Darcherif³

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.19, No.4, pp. 953-958, 2023, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2022.022028 - 02 November 2022

Abstract A study is presented on the feasibility of an approach based on the combination of Phase Change Materials (PCM) with metal walls in container-type houses. This line of research finds its motivations in recent trends in the energy and building sectors about energy consumption reduction. Another important objective concerns possible improvements in the comfort provided by such houses during the summer period. The results obtained through numerical solution of the governing equations accounting for heat transfer and latent heat effects associated with the PCM show that the indoor temperature can be reduced with a varying More >

Abdelatif Merabtine^1,*, Abdelhamid Kheiri², Salim Mokraoui³, Lyes Bellagh¹

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.19, No.4, pp. 941-951, 2023, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2023.022029 - 02 November 2022

Abstract Occupants of highly glazed buildings often suffer from thermal discomfort during the mid-seasons when no shadings are used in such buildings, especially when inertial heating systems are used. The present study is devoted to evaluating the impact of long solar beam exposure on the internal thermal discomfort in glazed spaces when heating is implemented through a floor system. A comprehensive experimental study is carried out using an experimental bi-climatic chamber which is fully monitored and controlled, allowing realistic simulations of the dynamic movement of the sun patch on a heated slab. The findings show that More >

Song Zhang¹, Wensheng Li², Zhao Li², Xiaolei Zhang¹, Zhipeng Lu¹, Xiaoning Ge^3,*

Energy Engineering, Vol.120, No.1, pp. 181-199, 2023, DOI:10.32604/ee.2022.022228 - 27 October 2022

Abstract Driven by the goal of “carbon neutrality” and “emission peak”, effectively controlling system carbon emissions has become significantly important to governments around the world. To this end, a novel two-stage low-carbon economic scheduling framework that considers the coordinated optimization of ladder-type carbon trading and integrated demand response (IDR) is proposed in this paper for the integrated energy system (IES), where the first stage determines the energy consumption plan of users by leveraging the price-based electrical-heat IDR. In contrast, the second stage minimizes the system total cost to optimize the outputs of generations with consideration of More >

Albio D. Gutierrez^a,*, Hayri Sezer^b, Jose L. Ramirez^c

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.18, pp. 1-12, 2022, DOI:10.5098/hmt.18.4

Abstract This paper presents a computational model along with a thermal comfort criterion aimed at assisting the design of operating rooms (ORs) from the perspective of meeting suitable flow patterns and thermal comfort conditions for the occupants. The computational model is based on the finite volume method (FVM) to describe the air inside ORs along with the human thermoregulation model implemented in virtual mannequins for thermal comfort. The air model considers turbulent fluid motion, species transport and the conservation of energy, including thermal radiation. The human thermoregulation model incorporates two interacting systems of thermoregulation. Namely, the… More >