Comfort: conditions and indicators
Air treatment and air conditioning - General

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Comfort: conditions and indicators


Air treatment and air conditioning - General

Authors : André BAILLY, Michel CLERC-RENAUD, Emmanuel RUTMAN, Claude TERNANT

Publication date: January 10, 2001 | Lire en français

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2. Comfort: conditions and indicators

2.1 Thermal comfort

For further details, please refer to the article Thermal comfort. of this treatise [33] .

From a physiological point of view, thermal comfort is specific to each individual at a given moment. Indeed, if we consider an individual whose clothing and activity are fixed, there is only one ambient temperature for which the body does not activate its thermoregulatory mechanisms. This is the temperature of neutrality. On this basis, Fanger [4] , like many other authors, has defined thermal comfort as the absence of discomfort. Thus, by considering thermoregulatory phenomena as sources of discomfort,...

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