Thermal comfort specific conditions in vehicles and real-time calculation of PMW and PPD thermal comfort indices

Author

Lovin, Ana-Maria ; Silion, Stefan ; Nicuta, Ana-Maria

Author_Institution

Eng. Fac., Gheorghe Asachi Tech. Univ. of Iasi, Iaşi, Romania

fYear

2013

fDate

23-25 May 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The presented paper deals with the predicted mean vote (PMV) and predicted percentage dissatisfied (PPD) thermal comfort indices calculation using the Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Engineering Workbench (LabVIEW) programming software. The comfort level calculation is based on six parameters, two of them (relative humidity (%) and temperature (°C) being measured in real time. For real-time measurement were chosen as test parameters, the relative humidity and the temperature because of their disadvantage of being the main factors of discomfort. The main functions of this application consist in: monitoring, data acquisition and parameter calculus. The tests carried out have the purpose of improving the real-time application presented.

Keywords

data acquisition; humidity measurement; thermal variables measurement; virtual instrumentation; LabVIEW; PMV; PMW real-time calculation; PPD thermal comfort index; comfort level calculation; data acquisition; laboratory virtual instrumentation; parameter calculus; predicted mean vote; predicted percentage dissatisfied thermal comfort index; relative humidity; vehicle thermal comfort specific conditions; Data acquisition; Humidity; Humidity measurement; Software; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors; Vehicles; LabVIEW; PMW; PPD; data acquisition; thermal comfort;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering (ATEE), 2013 8th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Bucharest

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5979-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ATEE.2013.6563541

Filename

6563541