Ventilative cooling of a seminar room using active PCM thermal storage

Thermal comfort evaluation is usually based on current guidance on avoiding overheating in buildings. In the UK, current guidance for schools is provided by the Education Funding Agency [1]; it includes guidelines on ventilation, thermal comfort and indoor air quality, including the Services Output Specification [2], the Baseline Design Environmental Services and Ventilation Strategy [3] and the Building Bulletin 101 [4]. These documents are aligned with CIBSE's guidance on prevention of summertime overheating [5,6 ,7 ,8] which refer to calculations according to European Standard BS EN 15251 and UK Building Regulations Parts L (Conservation of Fuel and Power) and F (Ventilation) [9].