Identifying the adaptive opportunities in factory environmnets for a better thermal comfort - preliminary studies

Achieving thermal comfort by active means has becom e ne of the largest energy intensive activities in factory environments, which directly influence t he manufacturing cost. As a result searching for ne w methodologies that could improve the thermal comfor t with minimum usage of energy has become vital. In the scope of adaptive thermal comfort model, improving the adaptive opportunities is a potential passive t echnique that can be used to minimize the energy requirement . However not many researches were conducted especi ally in tropical climates to investigate the ways of exp anding adaptive opportunities. The research present d was conducted to understand the existing adaptive oppor tunities and to explore and identify new methods th at could improve thermal comfort in factory environments.

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