Thermal comfort prediction for a new passive cooling system

One of the main purposes of a building is to provide a comfortable environment for its occupants. In a modern industrial society, man spends the greater part of his life indoors. During recent decades this has resulted in a growing understanding of and interest in studying the influence of indoor climate on the man, thus enabling suitable requirements to be established which should be aimed at in practice. The aim of this paper is the estimation of the thermal comfort in environment which is created by a proposed passive evaporative cooling system. The system makes use of the evaporative effect from water falling vertically along guides to produce a reduction in the temperature of the air entering the building. The method is based on Fangerʹs comfort equation which predicts the mean vote.