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New Cool Tool from ASHRAE – Helps Predict Consistent Thermal Comfort
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ATLANTA
– An updated tool from ASHRAE provides a user-friendly interface to
predict thermal comfort, based on the Society’s standard for thermal
environmental conditions.
ASHRAE Thermal Comfort Tool, Version 2, maintains consistency with
ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 55-2010, Thermal Environmental Conditions for
Human Occupancy. The standard specifies the combinations of indoor
thermal environmental factors and personal factors that will produce
thermal environmental conditions acceptable to a majority of the
occupants within the space.
The tool makes thermal comfort predictions using several existing
thermal comfort models, including the Adaptive and Predicted Mean Vote
(PMV) models. Inclusion of these models can potentially improve
occupant comfort by allowing engineers to more easily fine tune their
comfort analysis to the particular needs of the occupants in the
building.
“The
software allows you to calculate the predicted thermal comfort for a
human at a point in space,” Bill Fleming, volunteer chair of ASHRAE’s
Publications Committee, said. “All you need to do a comfort analysis is
some basic information about the thermal environment you want to model
and a few things about the person you want to put in that environment.”
The cost of the ASHRAE Thermal Comfort Tool is $117 ($99, ASHRAE
members). To order, contact ASHRAE Customer Contact Center at
1-800-527-4723 (United States and Canada) or 404-636-8400 (worldwide),
fax 404-321-5478, or visit www.ashrae.org/bookstore.
ASHRAE, founded in 1894, is an international organization of some
50,000 persons. ASHRAE fulfills its mission of advancing heating,
ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration to serve humanity and
promote a sustainable world through research, standards writing,
publishing and continuing education.
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